Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon

yuraoak

is it better than whisper from oai?

jiehong

Congrats on the launch! 1. I see it uses python, but I was wondering if it would use mlx-swift instead. Just curious if you considered it. 2. So far, qwen ASR seem usually less well supported than parakeet or whisper so far in most dictation applications (voxtral is similar in that regard). Why do you think that is? Thanks and good luck with your roadmap!

dandaka

How does it compare to models from handy.computer and whisprflow?

abdullahkhalids

What languages does it support?

foobarqux

This is like 2x realtime on M1 vs 60x on fluidaudio with parakeet.

dmwood

Question from a naive macports user. To some extent brew is orthogonal to macports. Is there an easy way to link to ffmpeg installed by macports? Thanks.

smalltorch

Stuff like this is what doctors should use instead of blasting patient data to a AI scribe who knows where. Im pretty sure that is illegal but it still takes place and I am pretty sure one of the reasons for the push to solve FHE...but its obviously way more practical and private to just do the processing locally.

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@claude is a contributor? I find that hard to believe.