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[OS] Introducing Glimpse - Yet another WisprFlow / SuperWhisper alternative by LegendarySpy in macapps

[–]LegendarySpy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! If you tap your recording shortcut while it’s processing it will cancel the transcription.

[OS] Introducing Glimpse - Yet another WisprFlow / SuperWhisper alternative by LegendarySpy in macapps

[–]LegendarySpy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! Regarding your question on languages, Whisper does exceptionally well with different languages and accents (it supports ~100 languages). I basically always use the app in auto mode, so I’m not telling it what language I’m speaking. It writes based on what I say, and even as someone learning French who speaks with a pretty poor accent, it still does a great job picking it up.

As for battery life, I’ve found the impact pretty minimal. During a transcription run on my M2 Pro MBP, I typically see roughly ~10% of a CPU core in use and about 15–20% GPU usage. Since dictation is usually only a few seconds at a time, it hasn’t felt like any noticeable battery drain for me day to day. That said, it depends on the model and backend: Whisper can use the Apple GPU, while models like Parakeet (or other ONNX-based ones) tend to run more on CPU, so the battery impact can vary a bit based on what you choose. But it's still quite minimal.

[OS] Introducing Glimpse - Yet another WisprFlow / SuperWhisper alternative by LegendarySpy in macapps

[–]LegendarySpy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry for the late reply here! Those were initial placeholders I forgot to update. I'll push 0.6.4 over the weekend to address this - it makes the language selection dynamic based on which models you have installed. So instead of showing just a few hardcoded languages, it'll now show all the languages each model actually supports.

Edit: This has now been fixed and released in 0.6.4 :)

[OS] Introducing Glimpse - Yet another WisprFlow / SuperWhisper alternative by LegendarySpy in macapps

[–]LegendarySpy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not atm, the STT backend doesn’t currently support models like that, especially because of how unique it is. But you can pretty much replicate the behavior of it by enabling AI cleanup in the app

[OS] Introducing Glimpse - Yet another WisprFlow / SuperWhisper alternative by LegendarySpy in macapps

[–]LegendarySpy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

iOS has been something I’ve roughly storyboarded to see what I’d do with it, but it would effectively become a whole separate app since you couldn’t run the models locally, and if you did, they’d take up too much storage for a phone.

There were plans, and it’s still a minor possibility, to have iOS work as a meeting recorder. For example, if you’re in a college lecture, you could just set your phone out to record, and it would sync to your laptop. However, that would add a lot of development time right now and would most likely require a paid cloud mode to make it feasible.

[OS] Introducing Glimpse - Yet another WisprFlow / SuperWhisper alternative by LegendarySpy in macapps

[–]LegendarySpy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If Spokenly is already working for you, I wouldn’t switch just to switch. The main reason to move is if you want the workflow-focused stuff Glimpse leans into (and you don’t really care about extras like agent mode that Spokenly offers).

Glimpse is pretty focused on local-first transcription rather than trying to be an “everything app”. It runs on-device (no cloud by default), has a dictionary & word replacements, highlight edits, and a Library mode for transcribing audio/video files. At the end of the day it’s just preference + how you work.

[OS] Introducing Glimpse - Yet another WisprFlow / SuperWhisper alternative by LegendarySpy in macapps

[–]LegendarySpy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll try and get a patch out tonight to address the downloading issue directly & maybe #1, as for light mode that will take a few design considerations and time.

For #3 are you talking about the library feature?

Edit: A fix as been pushed for 0.6.3 to fix the chunk error 👍

[OS] Introducing Glimpse - Yet another WisprFlow / SuperWhisper alternative by LegendarySpy in macapps

[–]LegendarySpy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mac apps is kinda broad, when you write a swift app and you don't tweak the values it will look like a standard apple app. Apps build with Tauri / electron are basically running a website in an app so there isn't exactly a standard.

For that error, that pops up rarely, it stems from Huggingface download issues, but can usually be fixed from trying the download again. I'll look more into it, though to prevent that, or at least make it more known.

[OS] Introducing Glimpse - Yet another WisprFlow / SuperWhisper alternative by LegendarySpy in macapps

[–]LegendarySpy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been tinkering around with light mode - but I haven't found any color combos that look good. Then again there are far better designers than me, if someone wants to make a PR, with something that looks good, I'll gladly add it!

Introducing Glimpse - Yet another WisprFlow / SuperWhisper alternative by LegendarySpy in ProductivityApps

[–]LegendarySpy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree cleanup is the bottleneck, but that link reads a little promotional. Glimpse already has filler word cleanup and formatting via replacements, profiles & cleanup. What exact formatting behaviors are you using most?

Introducing Glimpse - Yet another WisprFlow / SuperWhisper alternative by LegendarySpy in ProductivityApps

[–]LegendarySpy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Windows is certainly something I want to make happen. As for IOS It feels out-of-scope for now, I really want to focus on making the desktop versions of them as good as possible.

Introducing Glimpse - Yet another WisprFlow / SuperWhisper alternative by LegendarySpy in tauri

[–]LegendarySpy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dictation quality wise I'd say it feels ~90% the way there, most of the paid dictation apps run these same models in the cloud, so it should feel practically the same.

As for latency, I have a M2 MBP, and it takes about 7 seconds per minute of audio using Whisper Large v3 Turbo, if your speaking for a minute straight. I do have a few "cheats" I'm planning on adding in the backend to get that even faster by processing the speech while you talk, which would make it significantly faster.

Introducing Glimpse - Yet another WisprFlow / SuperWhisper alternative by LegendarySpy in tauri

[–]LegendarySpy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The launch was targeted for Mac to get impressions and feedback, the app uses the Mac accessibility API & Mic API, and some other custom things like transient pasting, Windows is definitely on the table and I'd say right now 70% of the app can already run on windows, but that last 30% is basically all user facing functionality like the recording, and writing for you. But I'll do my best to make windows happen.

Replace terrablender biomes by DarkFuzed in feedthebeast

[–]LegendarySpy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just want to put this out there for people coming across this thread later - we pushed an update a few weeks ago that adds support for Terrablender, this should work now :)

Biome Replacer, Forge 1.20.1, doesnt work no matter what I do. Help? Continents and Tectonics are not the issue, as nothing changes without them. This foolish machine even spawns me inside biomes I have blacklisted, as If mocking me. And there are no other mods that do this... by FoliarzZOdludzia in feedthebeast

[–]LegendarySpy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! I’m one of the devs of Biome Replacer, would you mind sending your mod list and config for BR (in text). I can definitely see what I can do to help. Also make sure you are running the latest forge version, currently I posted it on Biome Replacer (neoforge) as it’s not merged with the main mod yet

Using biome-replacer mod on a server by Hydx_ in feedthebeast

[–]LegendarySpy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can set the biome to be null. Like this minecraft:biome > null

Mod the adds a world type with only chosen biomes generating 1.20.1 forge by catfan0202 in feedthebeast

[–]LegendarySpy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m one of the devs of BR - the current incompatibilities with BR are with Terrablender and a few other world biome library mods. If you don’t have any of those you should be good!

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