“I've been shocked by the amount of money people are paying for hardware transcription devices and subscriptions for the software.”
Nick Lothian, on news.ycombinator.com ↗
AI note-taker gadgets charge for the box and then again every month. EarWing is an ESP32, four mics and a 3D print, and the transcription runs in your browser.
Wispr Flow charges $15 a month to type what you say. LocalFlow does it on your own GPU for nothing, word limit not included.
“The idea came from using Wispr Flow and wanting the same convenience without a subscription or the cloud.”
Otter charges $16.99 a month to send your calls to its servers. Parrot transcribes them on your own Mac, no bot in the meeting, for nothing.
“I got tired of paying for services like Otter.ai that send all my conversations to some server I don't control.”
Wispr Flow charges $15 a month to hear you think out loud. Spokesman hears it on-device, for nothing.
“I built it because I wanted something like Wispr Flow, but that's a subscription and your voice goes to the cloud.”
Built something because a company wanted your credit card for a feature that fits in a single file? That's spiteware. Submit it and join the hall of fame.
