Thank you for testing TypeWhisper and the different models so thoroughly, and for sharing the results. Comparing several engines across multiple languages is already valuable; going one step further and building a faster Whisper Large v3 plugin is a real contribution.

This is exactly why I made TypeWhisper’s engine and plugin layer extensible. The best setup depends heavily on language, hardware, and workload. Your result that Large v3 can run close to Parakeet speeds on a modern Mac is especially interesting, as is your fully local Whisper plus Gemma correction workflow.

If you’re comfortable sharing the plugin or benchmark setup, I’d be very interested in taking a closer look and seeing whether it could benefit more users. Either way, thank you for putting so much time into this and contributing your findings back to the project.

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I vouched for your recent submission which was dead, might improve your account standing so it doesn't happen again.

I'm curious how you found my comment mentioning TypeWhisper.

I was also wondering about clarification about the apple speech services. Because in the app it says they are on device (I have an m series Mac latest version) but in keyboard settings in MacOS it says many things would be shared with Apple.

It's not a huge issue because I'll just use that other model, which is fantastic, but I'm curious.

TypeWhisper looks really nice man, great work. I’ll add it to my directory and sorry HN marked it dead. I also post open-source projects and HN marks it dead as well. Feel like the system is broken or people just flag anything they don’t like.

It was a new account with 0 interaction, it was not manually flagged. Only the second time with a GitHub link was it killed.

The system is trying its best with all the AI slop. People can email the site admins if their posts are getting unjustly killed.