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I thought I was familiar with this project but I think it’s unrelated to this one I remembered from last year? Same name and also more or less an app layer for the new speech to text APIs introduced in OS 26.

https://github.com/finnvoor/yap

by hbn

On-device speech recognition on macOS is such a game changer for privacy and speed. Excited to test this out!

by echoscarrie

I don't think get it unless I'm missing something - how is this different from just using the built in Mac OS dictation feature?

At first I thought it was going to be a CLI/package to interface with that API which sounded interesting, but I already use a hotkey to dictate text on my Mac via the OS.

by heresalexandria

Amazing! This is something I wanted to look into too.

The Apple Foundation models SDKs are surprisingly cool. I recently started working on a personal productivity app that tries to keep track of all the projects I work on, and the ideas and initiatives within these. It does so by creating a graph of events, fed by Claude transcripts and the git and browser history, then letting FM summarize and describe all events; that in turn feeds a semantic search index in an SQLite database.

What I have now is an app that shows me where all my projects stand, what I last worked on, where I left forks behind (like deciding for one idea and doing something else "later"), and how to get back into something I wasn’t working on for a while. It also has a built-in MCP server, so I can ask Claude code about any past event or decision or roughly-similar keyword, and it’ll get sensible answers back!

Called the thing Pensieve :-)

However, one thing still missing is actually being able to ask it directly, or talk to it, so Yap looks like a great opportunity to learn!

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  • link to the benchmark against parakeet TDT v2 (the one im using now with spokenly) : https://get-inscribe.com/blog/parakeet-moss-apple-speech-ben...

    NVIDIA Parakeet TDT v2 still best, but look like apple is not far behind.

    i'd be happy to switch to yours if you add parakeet support, but that ight defy the purpose of the repo

  • This is super cool! The brew install path in the readme doesn't seem to work

    remote: Repository not found. fatal: repository 'https://github.com/frigadehq/homebrew-tap/' not found

  • I thought I was familiar with this project but I think it’s unrelated to this one I remembered from last year? Same name and also more or less an app layer for the new speech to text APIs introduced in OS 26.

    https://github.com/finnvoor/yap

    by hbn
  • On-device speech recognition on macOS is such a game changer for privacy and speed. Excited to test this out!
  • I don't think get it unless I'm missing something - how is this different from just using the built in Mac OS dictation feature?

    At first I thought it was going to be a CLI/package to interface with that API which sounded interesting, but I already use a hotkey to dictate text on my Mac via the OS.

  • Amazing! This is something I wanted to look into too.

    The Apple Foundation models SDKs are surprisingly cool. I recently started working on a personal productivity app that tries to keep track of all the projects I work on, and the ideas and initiatives within these. It does so by creating a graph of events, fed by Claude transcripts and the git and browser history, then letting FM summarize and describe all events; that in turn feeds a semantic search index in an SQLite database.

    What I have now is an app that shows me where all my projects stand, what I last worked on, where I left forks behind (like deciding for one idea and doing something else "later"), and how to get back into something I wasn’t working on for a while. It also has a built-in MCP server, so I can ask Claude code about any past event or decision or roughly-similar keyword, and it’ll get sensible answers back!

    Called the thing Pensieve :-)

    However, one thing still missing is actually being able to ask it directly, or talk to it, so Yap looks like a great opportunity to learn!

    by 9dev