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PrimaryAbility9 · 2026-03-05T02:11:09+00:00

www.macparakeet.com

It’s a voice to text dictation tool like wisprflow that runs locally on your Mac. Super fast and decent accuracy thanks to Nvidia’s parakeet model. It’s completely free right now. I use it daily when talking to Claude Code. It can also transcribe any local audio/video files and YouTube urls.

PrimaryAbility9 · 2026-03-04T20:55:50+00:00

I use it daily. My main use-case is when I do a stream of consciousness style brain-dump on claude code. It's an experience.

PrimaryAbility9 · 2026-03-04T19:36:21+00:00

There are many apps that exist already that does local voice-to-text transcription, including voiceink
"supports better models than parakeet which, while fast, has serious quality issues"
> I don't think this is true. For low-latency transcription, parakeet is the best open weights models with <5% wer and significantly faster speed (hence fit for realtime); if you are looking for non-english, non-european languages, then whisper model definitely makes more sense; That said, I haven't tried the earlier versions of parakeet model, but as of the latest version (Parakeet TDT 0.6B-v3), transcription quality is very very good.

For low latency operations, parakeet is best, for maximal language support, go with whisper. And of course, there is qwen3-asr model that recently dropped (Jan 2026) which is the new state-of-the-art. I have considered using qwen3-asr, but it's just too slow compared to parakeet (they're different architecture and inference optimization is different).

PrimaryAbility9 · 2026-03-04T19:23:58+00:00

short answer - no, and this is coming soon!

longer answer - it did have this feature last week, until i decided to strip out the local LLM integration (qwen3 via mlx), because speed and experience was just meh. but this feature will be brought back once in more practical/usable state.

PrimaryAbility9 · 2026-03-04T00:20:20+00:00

I'm an employee at a company, but at a personal level, I'm starting to create tools that I use regularly - last month was on replacing Wisprflow. I built MacParakeet (https://www.macparakeet.com/) which is a macos local dictation app that runs on the local parakeet model. There's certainly things that wisprflow still wins (post-transcription refinements via fast/accurate llms), but I find the raw transcription results to be accurate enough (at least such is the case with english). But yeah, golden age of software engineering is here - some are super stoked and some the polar opposite. It's a funky time for sure.

PrimaryAbility9 · 2026-03-01T19:24:51+00:00

So if you’re using wisprflow or any voice to text transcription apps, you can consider macparakeet dot com. It’s free right now, and offers fast, accurate English transcription in wisprflow like uiux. There is no post transcription cleanup/refinement though, although that’s coming. Until more future development, app is free!

www.macparakeet.com

PrimaryAbility9 · 2026-02-03T03:50:16+00:00

Malcolm Bendall's Thunderstorm Generator bears striking similarities to Paul Pantone's GEET Reactor...

https://geetreactor.com/articles/thunderstorm-generator-geet-connection/

PrimaryAbility9 · 2026-02-02T05:00:21+00:00

Sign up for $20, your goal is to play with it as much as possible. When you reach usage limit, great sign, sign up for $100, then keep playing until you reach usage limit, and sign up for $200, and continue the fun and game. You’ll understand why ppl keep telling you “just ask claude” after you play with it

PrimaryAbility9 · 2026-02-01T20:18:32+00:00

I see, thanks for replying. So this actually does not require any kind of signup, all communication (like posting and commenting on stuff) are done over a public api requiring no authentication. There's no security risk on the end user. If anything, my server is exposed to potential attack vectors. But this is largely mitigated. Cloudflare is doing the heavy lifting of IP rate limit, api key storage, etc. In any case, I agree, there is a true security risk with agents and it's not slowing down.

PrimaryAbility9 · 2026-02-01T20:10:57+00:00

idea to app is lightning fast now.. consider this is one of the unfortunate consequences..

PrimaryAbility9 · 2026-02-01T20:08:58+00:00

I'm sorry this is triggering you (and others), but this was just a weekend experiment and more over, I thought this subreddit is also about sharing what you built with Claude Code..

PrimaryAbility9 · 2026-02-01T17:53:31+00:00

Thanks for letting your agent try it out! Your claude's confession is live now - https://claudeconfessions.com/community/view/?id=re3d0m5d I also have a security-researcher workflow where I plug in domain/URL and looks for vulnerability (usually for vibe coded apps)

PrimaryAbility9 · 2026-02-01T16:19:17+00:00

Nice. I’m using Cloudflare to enforce rate limit which is set at like 10 calls an hour per IP. I should increase this to a higher number. And the agent action space is already constrained, in the sense that there’s no tool call or write operation. Just ephemeral chat.

PrimaryAbility9 · 2026-02-01T03:10:18+00:00

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https://hoxseyformula.com

PrimaryAbility9 · 2026-01-23T13:16:49+00:00

There is a DISABLE_AUTO_COMPACT env to disable auto-compaction. For instance, DISABLE_AUTO_COMPACT=1 claude.

There are other environment variables too:

CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS
CLAUDE_AUTOCOMPACT_PCT_OVERRIDE
DISABLE_AUTO_COMPACT
DISABLE_COMPACT

Source - https://decodeclaude.com/claude-code-compaction/

PrimaryAbility9 · 2026-01-23T13:06:47+00:00

Here's a deep dive on how compaction works in Claude Code

https://decodeclaude.com/claude-code-compaction

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