Fast, local, and offline dictation
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Finally found the local speech-to-text model I have been looking for! In the latest release of VS Code, I noticed they included a local model (Nemotron) for giving voice commands to your AI agent. After researching it a bit, I discovered the backend uses a very small model that runs entirely locally without heavy lifting. I learned that Sherpa-ONNX can run these models, so I asked my AI agent to build a simple tool I can trigger with a keyboard shortcut to dictate text directly into my…
1Key Takeaways
- Finally found the local speech-to-text model I have been looking for!
- In the latest release of VS Code, I noticed they included a local model (Nemotron) for giving voice commands to your AI agent.
- After researching it a bit, I discovered the backend uses a very small model that runs entirely locally without heavy lifting.
- I learned that Sherpa-ONNX can run these models, so I asked my AI agent to build a simple tool I can trigger with a keyboard shortcut to dictate text directly into my….
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3Why it matters
Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that finally found the local speech-to-text model I have been looking for!
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