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.