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Tools2026-07-30 · source-backed
A Show HN at 87 points ships local transcription and system-wide push-to-talk for Apple Silicon Macs, 119 stars, Apache-2.0, v0.2.0-beta.1. Runs Qwen3-ASR through mlx-qwen3-asr with a size choice: 1.7B for accuracy needing 3.4 GB unified memory, 0.6B for speed needing 1.2 GB. Drag-and-drop transcription with automatic language detection, right-Command push-to-talk, searchable local transcript history, SRT export with word timestamps.
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