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    Hey HN! It’s Wen from Narya.ai. We build Mumble Dictation, a local-first and privacy-focused dictation app on Mac. Homepage and Download: https://heymumble.com/dictation YouTube:https://youtu.be/Bma59TrR62c?si=DM-LyjZY5GZ9-f64 Two things kept bugging us about the dictation products on the market: 1. Most of them ship your audio to the cloud, and those who is claiming to be private are often just a thin wrapper of cloud APIs with a privacy policy. 2. Those general-purpose ASR models are terrible at your vocabulary: library names, co-workers' names, project…

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