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Epilude
Local voice dictation and notetaker for Mac
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Local voice dictation and notetaker for Mac
157 followers
Hold a key, speak, release: polished text lands in any app on your Mac. Epilude transcribes, punctuates, cleans up, and matches your tone in about a second. Runs fully on-device, so audio never leaves your Mac.
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"trim the rambling" is the phrase that catches me, since that's not just punctuation cleanup, that's deciding what you didn't mean to say. for casual notes that's exactly what I'd want, but if I'm dictating something with a number, a caveat, or a qualifier in the middle of a rambly sentence, trimming risks cutting the part that mattered along with the filler. is there a way to see what got trimmed before it lands in the app, or does it commit straight to the final text with no diff to check against
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@galdayan Great question - straight answer: there's no diff before the text lands, it commits straight in.
However every dictation is saved to your local history with the raw transcript kept next to the cleaned one, plus a "See what changed" word-level diff for exactly this, so you can always check and copy the raw back.
"About a second" for transcribe, punctuate, clean up, and tone match fully on-device is a strong latency claim for anything beyond basic speech-to-text. What's actually running locally and on what hardware, like is this Apple Silicon Neural Engine dependent, and what does the latency look like on older Intel Macs or lower-spec M1 machines versus a maxed-out M4?
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@ansari_adin The local dictation and cleanup is powered by our own model family (current latest model is Epilude Model 4.1, more details here: https://epilude.com/news/introducing-model-4). Currently we've optimized it for Apple Silicon. We've started with newer and slightly higher end Macs, but are planning on bringing it to more platforms/specs in the future!
@gustav_ek "Planned for more platforms and specs in the future" is the right honest answer but it leaves Intel Mac users with no path forward right now. For someone evaluating this on a 2020 Intel MacBook Pro that's otherwise capable, is the gap a hard architectural incompatibility with the Neural Engine, or more of an optimization and testing bandwidth issue? Knowing which one it is would tell potential users whether to wait or move on.
Awesome design! This is a total lifesaver for slow typists like me, and having everything processed fully on-device brings huge peace of mind.
If you don't mind sharing, which local speech-to-text model (e.g., Whisper variant) are you running under the hood?
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@zeo81 Thanks! Privacy is the whole reason we are building Epilude, so this is great to hear.
It's actually not Whisper. On-device you're running Epilude Model 4: a state-of-the-art open speech model we've optimised for Apple Silicon, paired with our own cleanup model (a fine-tune on the Qwen family) that turns the raw transcript into something you'd actually send.
If you want the full nerdy breakdown, including how we grade every model against a zero-tolerance error bar before it ships, we wrote it up here: https://epilude.com/news/introducing-model-4
@mark_mason6 Thanks for the reply! I thought you were using Whisper like everyone else — turns out it's your own tech, which is seriously impressive. Huge kudos to you guys, haha. Wishing you great rankings on Product Hunt!
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How does it work with bluetooth headsets like airpod max? everytime i try to use a mic, basically everything sounds like 90s headset 😂
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@conduit_design good question! We've put quite a lot of effort into making dictation on bluetooth headsets/mics as smooth as possible (which turns out to be quite a tricky issue due to the limitations that come with bluetooth). We did a write up here: https://www.epilude.com/news/bluetooth-dictation-dead-zone. In short it shouldn't impact your sound quality much, but there's a slight delay in starting your dictation when using the mic in a bluetooth headset so that the mic can connect.
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@gustav_ek I looked into it just now. seems like airpod maxwith lightning cable is out of luck. but airpod max usbc supposedly force the newer codec so sound doesnt sound like the 90s when mic is activated. Is this true?
On-device cleanup in about a second is the impressive part — local transcription is mostly solved, but punctuation and tone-matching without a cloud round trip is where the latency usually hides. I build speech recognition into an unlock ritual, so I know the messy edges: half-finished sentences, restarts, the gap between what people say and what they meant to type. Curious how you handle a mid-sentence restart — does the cleanup pass merge it into one intent, or transcribe both fragments faithfully? Congrats on the launch.
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Hey Product Hunt - Mark here, the other creator of Epilude.
Our local dictation is second to none, we've spent a lot of time honing the models and process to get this running smoothly. I love knowing my voice or dictations aren't leaving my laptop - this is one for the privacy focused folk out there!
I'd also watch this space if you're worried about sending your meetings to external servers - in August we will be launching our locally transcribed meeting notes. Watch this space!
P.S. of course this was written with Epilude 😉