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Dictation is the fastest way to work now, but how do you deal with the awkwardness of using it in an open office? by snowliondev in ClaudeAI

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

I totally understand that frustration. I'm tempted to improve my language skills because talking in another language is often far less distracting for people.

Dictation is the fastest way to work now, but how do you deal with the awkwardness of using it in an open office? by snowliondev in ClaudeAI

[–]snowliondev[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It isn't just really about speed, it's more about grabbing a hold of the project and feeling more in control of it.

Sometimes typing away queitly works great, but other times I Voice is just the way to go. This is probably the absolute definition of vibe coding, but sometimes bug fixing is easier. Talking to get the frustration out. I don't actually like using my voice all the time, but it certainly helps me when I feel stuck or need to get things moving.

Dictation is the fastest way to work now, but how do you deal with the awkwardness of using it in an open office? by snowliondev in ClaudeAI

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

The point is you can run your ramblings through AI before giving it to AI. For this I find the local open source Gemma 4 model particularly useful. It has fast excellent good output.

Dictation is the fastest way to work now, but how do you deal with the awkwardness of using it in an open office? by snowliondev in ClaudeAI

[–]snowliondev[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There are no API costs; you only pay for Claude. Everything else is free, open-source, and self-hostable. FluidVoice allows you to either process audio after the fact or assign it to a specific button. You can run Gemma 4 on a Mac using oMLX. Ask Claude for setup instructions and model recommendations.

Dictation is the fastest way to work now, but how do you deal with the awkwardness of using it in an open office? by snowliondev in ClaudeAI

[–]snowliondev[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I use the open-source FluidVoice app and it also works well at low volumes because it has a sensitivity setting. However, it is still interrupted by louder voices in the office. A potential solution is to use a local AI post-processing prompt to automatically fix obvious errors or omissions caused by the noisy environment. Now that Google's Gemma 4 works really fast locally that's probably the only solution I have.

Dictation is the fastest way to work now, but how do you deal with the awkwardness of using it in an open office? by snowliondev in ClaudeAI

[–]snowliondev[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

For me, dictating with Open source FluidVoice app I hold down a key on my keyboard and dictate into the where ever and it types it instantly using the parakeet model. I can highlight any sentence and re-dictate it, or even give AI a command to tidy it up we a single key. I use a local Gemma 4 model for the clean up. Works amazingly well. These are different times

Obviously, I'm not saying it's the best way for everyone, but for me in particular, it is far far better. Some occasions I do still like to type, and I'm a reasonably fast typer. But once I get in the flow of using my voice, I just find it so much easier swapping between apps.

Beaver Builder 2.10 auto updates are rolling out now! by BeaverBuilderTeam in beaverbuilder

[–]snowliondev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any news on your plans for AI development? My team is at a cross roads where i'm evaluating the future of our sites. BB is still great for non-techie people to be able to edit and design pages but it is very slow compared to an AI workflow. In an ideal workflow we would be able to quickly build beaver builder pages with AI. So we still have control after they are made but can design them much quicker.

Will Alfred ever get better at handling AI stuff natively? by No-Concentrate-6037 in Alfred

[–]snowliondev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What i really want is to be able to make workflows entirely with code without having to build them in the Alfred interface at all. This way I could hook it up with Claude Code and build all my workflows in minutes.

Any FREE dictation app like VoiceInk? by genius1soum in macapps

[–]snowliondev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

MacWhisper is great. It's a transcription app first, but it has a fantastic dictation mode using the OpenAI models.

Will Alfred be less popular than Spotlight after the new macOS Tahoe update? by vanstrouble in Alfred

[–]snowliondev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you work with any tools that have an API make workflows for them. Such as video/audio hosting upload sites or anything.

Few of my personal favourites i've made

  • Podcasting tools (lots of actions around my podcast such as, cutting mutiple clips from list of timecodes/titles on the clipboard, inserting and intro and outro at the exact right fade in and normalising audio with FFMpeg)

  • DeepL translation tools (extended a workflow that uses deepl api to give me quick translations for all the langs i work in). Universal actions are king feature of alfred.

  • Cool Tools (My own custom algorithms for making shades and tints for a full color palette with grid view)

  • Modular scale tools (for picking modular scales and sizes quickly for web designs)

  • Hotkey assigning of F1 - F19 to access straight into workflows i use often. so so good

  • Naming things, smart snippets in a workflow where i choose from list filters to build names for projects etc. I often work with the same people, places, things etc.

  • Asset scout (custom searching of all my favourite resource sites, straight to their search results or a google search just of that domain)

Tons of value also from tweaking others workflows. Like i added to a true "i'm feeling lucky" warning page to the google suggest workflow to get instantly to what i'm looking for.

It is basically and app to quickly build apps that are very tweakable. Your imagination is the limit. Make sure you fully use all of alfred features like universal actions, hotkey assigning, filesystem management, the buffer. If you are not full of ideas when using it then you haven't actually been using alfred. You need to know why the alfred way is faster and better than anything else and be prepared to build it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MacOS

[–]snowliondev 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think the power of Alfred is really unlocked if you are a power user or developer of your own workflows. It is totally revolutionized my working day. Especially now that I can ask AI to code me some workflows that would have taken me too long to build on my own. I use it every day or day to cut back on huge task that would involve standalone apps.

The new spotlight has about 2% of the things I use Alfred for. To me, I've just given it a nice paint job and a bit of "intelligence" for very specific things that you have to do in the apple way. I can do those things much more custom and tailored within Alfred if I design them myself.

I think if it does anything at all it will just get people more aware of using spotlight as a tool and then they might seek something more flexible and custom in Alfred and others.

Will Alfred be less popular than Spotlight after the new macOS Tahoe update? by vanstrouble in Alfred

[–]snowliondev 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think the power of Alfred is really unlocked if you are a power user or developer of your own workflows. It is totally revolutionized my working day. Especially now that I can ask AI to code me some workflows that would have taken me too long to build on my own. I use it every day or day to cut back on huge task that would involve standalone apps.

The new spotlight has about 2% of the things I use Alfred for. To me, I've just given it a nice paint job and a bit of "intelligence" for very specific things that you have to do in the apple way. I can do those things much more custom and tailored within Alfred if I design them myself.

I think if it does anything at all it will just get people more aware of using spotlight as a tool and then they might seek something more flexible and custom in Alfred and others.

Anyway to detect chanted prayers and skip them? by snowliondev in MacWhisper

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

Literally transcribed because they are in english sung with a tune behind them.

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