"If old sci-fi shows are anything to go by, we're all using our computers wrong. We're still typing with our fingers, like cave people, instead of talking out loud the way the future was supposed to be. Have you ever seen Picard touch a keyboard? Of course not. And it's odd because our computers are all capable of turning speech into text by default. The problem? It just doesn't work very well. Or, at least, it didn't."
"In recent years AI models like Nvidia's Parakeet and OpenAI's Whisper, both open source, have made great strides in turning human voices into text. Both excel at correctly adding things like punctuation and capitalization, and you can run them right on your computer. Using these models is the closest I've felt to recording a captain's logit just works. The problem? They're both a little complicated to set up. That's where Handy comes in."
"To get started simply download Handythere are versions offered for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Run the application and you'll be asked which model you want to use. Courtesy of Justin Pot The default, Parakeet V3, is a great place to startI didn't feel the need to try out other models after using it. It will take a bit for the model to download, but when it does you can start using the application by pressing and holding the keyboard shortcut."
Handy is a free, minimal application that installs and runs open-source speech-to-text models locally on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Nvidia's Parakeet and OpenAI's Whisper now handle punctuation and capitalization well and can run on a personal computer. Handy automates model setup and provides a simple press-and-hold keyboard shortcut for live transcription. CJ Pais created Handy after a finger injury to avoid typing while offering a radically simple, cost-free solution. The default model is Parakeet V3; model download takes some time, and an on-screen overlay indicates when recording is active.
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