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Six Months of Dictating Everything, Then Switching to Local

Dhilip Subramanian @sdhilip ♥ 3.1k

A heavy dictation user, top 0.1%, ditched his paid voice tool for an open-source one that runs locally on his Mac with no API key and handles slang better. The broader signal worth watching: local, private, free tools are quietly getting good enough to cancel the subscription. Short and practical.

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I've dictated almost everything for 6 months with Wispr Flow. 44,414 words, 161 wpm, top 0.1% of users.

Last week I tried FluidVoice. Open source, runs local on my Mac, corrects as I speak with no API key, and handles slang better than I expected.

Cancelled my paid plan. If

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