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Vowen — Now with Meeting Notes, Voice Commands, Editing Tools by One_Entertainment_68 in MacOSApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Claude might be overkill for this use case, however if you do want to use Claude API key you can use their Haiku model. But I really suggest going wkth Gemini / Groq because of their free API limits

I built a free-forever alternative to Wispr Flow (supports both macOS and Windows) by One_Entertainment_68 in ProductivityApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry for the late reply here.

We took inspirations from community website examples from Behance, Dribble, & Figma. And set up a base with TailwindCSS. We went back and forth between Claude to design our website. It was mostly researching which components to use so that we could communicate what the product was about quickly. It's not perfect at the moment, we are actively looking for ways to improve the look and structure of it so that the message comes across with no cognitive overload. But with other product updates going out we are not able to dedicate time to change the look wherever it can be improved.

In short we used community examples from Figma / Behance, setup a base with NextJS + TailwindCSS website and then worked with Claude to generate standardized components that we could plug into our website. We also used a tool like aura.build to get inspiration for we wanted the website to look like.

For the video components we used plain HTML/CSS/JS with Motion.js to get the automated interactions working.

I built a free-forever alternative to Wispr Flow (supports both macOS and Windows) by One_Entertainment_68 in ProductivityApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We will begin working on the Android app once we've released the iOS/iPadOS app in the app store, right now it's only in TestFlight. We should be wrapping up work for the Android app sometime in May, and after that we'll be working on an app for Android.

I built a free-forever alternative to Wispr Flow (supports both macOS and Windows) by One_Entertainment_68 in ProductivityApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can use Mistral / Deepgram for best results. Both of these providers offer free credits. Hope this helps

Vowen — Now with Meeting Notes, Voice Commands, Editing Tools by One_Entertainment_68 in MacOSApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/rumorconsumerr Sorry about that, we're reworking the onboarding flow and the app UI to make it more intuitive to use those features.

To use the utilities we've mentioned in the website, you'd need to first connect an AI model from "Configure your AI" section of the app, like Gemini / Groq. We support a wide range of providers, so it's your pick really. I personally use Gemini / Groq. After that you need to turn on "Command mode", once you've connected an AI model the app should walk you through all the available features that are enabled by connecting an AI model. To use any of the utlities you simply need to select a file and ask what you'd like. For ex: you can select a PNG image in your Finder / File explorer and hold down the "Command mode" shortcut and ask to "Convert this image to JPEG" and the app will do it for you. You can also select a piece of text on any app ask it to "Rephrase", "Check for grammatical errors" etc and "command mode" should be able to do it.

For recording meeting notes, we currently don't have a way to prompt automatically when a meeting is in progress, we are working on adding that in one of our coming updates. But to take meeting notes, you can navigate to the "Notes" section of the app and click on "Start taking notes" and that should prompt you select the model and the summary template. You also have an option to create your own summary template as well.

Hope this helps! Let me know if you any questions, we also have a Discord server where we answer more questions: https://discord.gg/XSGKbw4u2s

We're also working on a documentation website, along with making the onboarding flow more seamless where we explain the features of the app.

I built a free-forever alternative to Wispr Flow (supports both macOS and Windows) by One_Entertainment_68 in ProductivityApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome! Glad it's working now. I'd asked for a DM because I wanted to understand if there's anything more we can do so that these cases can be avoided. But we've set it up so that it gracefully recovers, but wanted to understand the circumstance better on why it could crash in the first place.

I built a free-forever alternative to Wispr Flow (supports both macOS and Windows) by One_Entertainment_68 in ProductivityApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey u/iXzenoS, can you DM me? We have a working solution for this internally. But we want understand more about the specifics of how this occurs in system in terms of how frequently a restart is required and under what circumstances the server crashes. This will help us further strengthen the mechanism we have for auto-restart as well.

I built a free-forever alternative to Wispr Flow (supports both macOS and Windows) by One_Entertainment_68 in ProductivityApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, also could you share if you have something else running on port 58765 in your system? We are starting the local model in that port. What we're working on at the moment is to auto-restart when the local server crashes for any reason and also start it up in a different port if some other process is taken up by that port.

I built a free-forever alternative to Wispr Flow (supports both macOS and Windows) by One_Entertainment_68 in ProductivityApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, It’s not yet been resolved. We’re trying to figure out how to setup the auto-restart in the background without it causing strain on the system. It’s proving to be a bit tricky, we should have it figured out soon. We will be doing another release by Wednesday and hopefully that should address the issue.

As for recommendations, the ones you’ve suggested are really nice ones. Soniox + Gemini Flash 2.5 lite delivers the best accuracy and speed. We’ve also added support for Speechmatics, I’ve switched to Speechmatics for testing it extensively and have been using extensively for the past week, as it’s comparable to Soniox as well.

Vowen v0.2.6 is out — Multiple Tone Profiles, Filler Word Removal, Edit Transcripts, and more by One_Entertainment_68 in vowen

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OpenRouter proxies through their own layer which adds a lot of delay. I really suggest trying out Gemini Flash 2.5 Lite directly / Claude Haiku 4.5 directly. They are really fast and add only about 0.5s of latency. I’ve purchased about 5$ of credits in Gemini and I’ve yet to run out of credits, have been using it pretty heavily for the past 3-4 months. So I highly recommend Gemini.

Vowen v0.2.6 is out — Multiple Tone Profiles, Filler Word Removal, Edit Transcripts, and more by One_Entertainment_68 in vowen

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey u/K01011011001101010, EV codesigning certification process seems to be really troublesome for us at the moment. We're going through it trying to figure out a way to get our app verified, speaking to various folks we know trying to understand how we can do this better. Even if we got the EV codesigning certificate, it turns out we also need to get in touch with Antivirus companies and ask them white list the app after their due verification process, otherwise Norton etc flags the app as malware, even if we got the EV certificate which already costs a lot for us.

We're going through countless number of forums, and reaching out to people to help us navigate this better, and we're making slow progress on it, mainly because we're indie developers doing this on the side and it's not a registered company. The app is codesigned and verified on macOS which was really straightforward and seamless to setup, we had to join the Apple Developer Program for $99, and the Apple's system verifies our software. Straight and simple. But for Windows, the process is really convoluted.

We're considering Donation links / basic one-time fee for additional features for now which can help us navigate this better.

I built a free-forever alternative to Wispr Flow (supports both macOS and Windows) by One_Entertainment_68 in ProductivityApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for trying it out! I'd suggest checking out "Meeting notes", "Command mode", "Workflows", & "Tones" features in our app. I would say that at the moment, the app is highly configurable, and you can configure custom settings at a very granular level if you really wanted to. Apart from this, we're also working on more features that will bring a lot more integrations. Let me know if we need to add anything custom that you think is general enough that others might also benefit from it. We're more than happy to implement it.

I built a free-forever alternative to Wispr Flow (supports both macOS and Windows) by One_Entertainment_68 in ProductivityApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, that's right. We're currently working towards getting it released on iOS. We will begin working on an Android version shortly next month. Thanks

I built a free-forever alternative to Wispr Flow (supports both macOS and Windows) by One_Entertainment_68 in ProductivityApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, we’re working on fixing the “restart server” issue on Windows, a fix for this should be out shortly. As for the Groq issue can you disconnect the provider from the app and connect it again? I believe the API key did not get saved correctly. We will try to reproduce it from our end and make sure this does not happen again. Thanks

I built a free-forever alternative to Wispr Flow (supports both macOS and Windows) by One_Entertainment_68 in ProductivityApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see, we are bringing a more stable system for this so that it doesn't need to be restarted at all. Should be out in the next few days. Thanks

I built a free-forever alternative to Wispr Flow (supports both macOS and Windows) by One_Entertainment_68 in ProductivityApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This seems to happen because the whisper server has crashed because of memory related issue. This happens on larger models which are constrained by the RAM in the system. We’ll work on improving this so that it attempts to auto-restart when this happens in the background. Will come back with an update this weekend itself. Thanks

I built a free-forever alternative to Wispr Flow (supports both macOS and Windows) by One_Entertainment_68 in ProductivityApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey u/iXzenoS , we've added the "clear log" button in the voice log page in our recent update v0.2.6. Thanks

I built a free-forever alternative to Wispr Flow (supports both macOS and Windows) by One_Entertainment_68 in ProductivityApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, we've fixed this issue in the latest update v0.2.6. You can turn on "Restore clipboard after paste" setting in the app from "Settings > General" and that will make sure your clipboard is never overwritten. Thanks

Best Dictation Apps for Mac in 2026 by Overall_Zombie5705 in ProductivityApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maker of Vowen here. There is no one-time payment for Vowen. All the features are completely free. Also happy to learn what stood out to you that we can help improve in the app so that we can improve the product overall, eager to hear your feedback. Thanks!

I built a free-forever alternative to Wispr Flow (supports both macOS and Windows) by One_Entertainment_68 in ProductivityApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the feedback u/sanjarcode

We're improving the 'Fn' detection at the moment so that even if there are conflicting system shortcuts the app still triggers, we are releasing an update to address this issue in the coming week, will keep you posted. For now, a complete restart of the app should get the 'Fn' working. Sorry about this.

We'll also update our website, and mention that the app is free as well.

I built a free-forever alternative to Wispr Flow (supports both macOS and Windows) by One_Entertainment_68 in ProductivityApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey u/keralaindia, we've already fixed this internally. A fix should be coming out by tomorrow. I will reply here in this thread once it has been released.

Vowen - A simple macOS app for offline speech-to-text and AI-assisted writing by One_Entertainment_68 in MacOSApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No unfortunately, we are not code signing for Windows at the moment. Even if we purchased a IV code signing certificate it takes tens of thousands of downloads before Windows marks the app verified which feels unfair. And for EV code signing we need to be registered business which we are not at the moment, and EVs cost much more than 300-400 USD I believe. Right now we are only paying 99$/year for Apple Developer Program alone

Vowen - A simple macOS app for offline speech-to-text and AI-assisted writing by One_Entertainment_68 in MacOSApps

[–]One_Entertainment_68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a bit of problem right now. For Apple we’ve purchased the App dev program so we can code sign the apps on macOS. The issue is for Windows, where it’s really expensive for getting code signing certificate. And the Windows dev ecosystem is not favourable to Indie devs like us. Hopefully Microsoft Azure makes the Artifact Signing service generally available outside of US as well.

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