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Bzz — Not your ordinary voice-to-text
Local-first dictation. Your voice never leaves your PC
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Local-first dictation. Your voice never leaves your PC
11 followers
Most dictation apps stream your audio to their cloud. Bzz does the opposite — transcription runs locally on your machine, so your voice never leaves your computer. Press F9, talk into any app, and text lands at your cursor. No word caps, no session limits. Optional AI polish — local model, your own cloud key, or none. No server processing your audio means ~$4–8/mo, not $12–15. Free until Labor Day. Windows + macOS. From Hiventiq — human-centered AI, rebuilt.
How well does the local transcription handle accents or background noise compared to something like Whisper running on the same hardware?
How does the local transcription actually perform on something like a mid-range laptop without a discrete GPU, and is there a noticeable lag when switching between the AI polish modes?
pressed F9 in notion and it just dropped clean text at my cursor, no lag and nothing touched the cloud. love that i can plug in my own api key when i want a polish pass