All aboard the voice to text train

One of the great things about LLMs is how prevalent voice-to-text apps have now become. I first found out about this segment of apps with WhisperFlow, but was shocked by what they were charging, considering they’re just running a simple detection algorithm and then passing it through an LLM to provide the final output. Thankfully, there are a ton of alternatives, and the one I’ve been using lately is called TypeWhisper. It’s an open-source, native Mac app, with a ton of options that should support whatever your preferred LLM provider is. It has a clean macOS interface with a floating live transcription bar at the bottom of the screen, which is helpful for seeing what it’s picking up in real time (though it’s optional). You can set a global hotkey to automatically trigger the TypeWhisper input. I’ve set mine using a hyperkey mapped to Caps Lock + Spacebar, so from any app I can press that combination and it will automatically start transcribing. Once transcription is complete, it runs…