Blazing Fast Transcription

What it does

I built the fastest local transcription product. I took the top local models and wrapped them around a power user UX: - Always on transcription: just talk - no keyboard press required - Hot mic: No lost words or waiting 0.7s before you start talking - Turbo mode: Real time transcription at the speed you can talk

155x real-time local speech-to-text for macOS. Runs entirely on Apple Neural Engine with 2.5% word error rate. No cloud, no subscription. Just speak and it types.

Yeah, us too. Every voice tool we tried felt like it was fighting us. Press a button, wait for a popup, watch it think, hope it heard you right, paste the result somewhere. By the time it's done you could've just typed it. So we built something different. No buttons. No UI. No cloud. You talk, text appears. That's it. Try it out. It's free — no account, no paywall, nothing to cancel. If you like it, congrats: you just increased your productivity by a non-trivial amount, as they say in the VC world. No paywall. No trial timer. No account. No card. And the whole app is open source — read every line, or build it yourself. We dream of a future where you can just talk to your screen. No buttons,…from blazingfasttranscription.com

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