TalkScribe: 100% local on-device dictation on macOS with Whisper and a local LLM
On-device & edgeSource:TalkScribe
A native macOS app turns dictation into text with Whisper running on-device plus a local LLM (Qwen) rewrite pass on the M-series GPU: no byte leaves the computer, no cloud account. Audio goes through Whisper, then the local model cleans up punctuation and formatting before delivering text to the target app.
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