what i find interesting is that this app superwhisper is just AI speech to text, mostly based on local open weights models like whisper (though also giving access to proprietary cloud-only models). they're charging a subscription for text to speech. and it's all for the sake of slopcoding faster. amazing. if you haven't seen someone use speech to text to slopcode, look up videos of people sincerely using AI to slopcode, it's incredible how the paths of software engineering diverged.

edit: and of course the main bottleneck when having an AI do shit isn't the talking, it's the AI actually doing the stuff that by far takes the longest.

edit again: i missed the free plan, oops. still, a speech to text subscription is ridiculous.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I subscribed to Superwhisper a couple of years ago when one arm wasn’t working. It allowed me to type emails and slack messages much faster than using one hand. It worked way better than the inbuilt text-to-speech in the OS. But slop code wasn’t a thing at the time and it all ran locally, it was great. Now I’m back to using my hands to type like a human.

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm glad to hear you're better. I understand paying for something that works better, but I guess I'm still stuck in ye olden days where software was a one time purchase and if they really needed more money they'd release yearly major updates. And I'm not convinced that switching between a locally run whisper model and something proprietary in the cloud makes that much of a difference. Especially with the privacy concerns. Of course I could probably be convinced, but I don't want to.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

It all ran locally, which was great. As new models came out I could download them. Guess they’ve chased the hype. Shame.