BABarbing·Oct 8, 2026
FluidVoice is working on that I believe w/Fluid-1 model https://github.com/altic-dev/FluidVoice
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altic-dev / FluidVoice
FluidVoice
Fastest and only macOS Dictation app with on-device STT and custom trained AI enhancement model. Windows, iOS testflight! Android, Linux waitlist open! A local Wispr Flow alternative. Follow https://x.com/fluidvoiceapp for more
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Fastest and only macOS Dictation app with on-device STT and custom trained AI enhancement model. Windows, iOS testflight! Android, Linux waitlist open! A local Wispr Flow alternative. Follow https://x.com/fluidvoiceapp for more
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5 sourcesI recently had to use dictation for a few weeks and I was pleasantly surprised that many of the apps (in use/vogue) did support models on my 2021 16GB M1 Pro mac (many of those even supported connecting to a remote or local model endpoint) and at the same time for any worthwhile STT enhancement the model size was hitting higher I would have comfortably wanted. Even though I don't necessarily need dictation any more I intend to keep a custom fully offline setup and try these models (not sure they support live/streaming STT).
If any of you are interested there are apps like https://github.com/altic-dev/FluidVoice (this one's a great app) and this https://sam-pop.github.io/WhisperDictation. The latter, even though it has just 7 stars right now, seems to be more "intuitive". I just hope they expose a way to "connect" to available models on th
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FluidVoice - Open source voice-to-text dictation app for macOS with local AI
2 points · Open discussionThere's a fork of FluidAudio that supports the recent Cohere model: https://github.com/altic-dev/FluidAudio/tree/B/cohere-coreml...
It's used by this dictation app: https://github.com/altic-dev/FluidVoice/
In Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOSFluidVoice for macOS is pretty handy as well. Open source under Apache License.
https://altic.dev/fluid
https://github.com/altic-dev/FluidVoice
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