I didn't want to pay a monthly subscription for dictation, so I built one that runs on my GPU
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I wanted to dictate on my PC without paying for a subscription. So I built Wisperno: hold a hotkey, speak, release, and the text is pasted into whatever app has focus. It runs fully offline. Whisper large-v3-turbo transcribes on the GPU, and a small quantized language model cleans up the text. Ther…
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- 2026-10-21 13:30 · DEV Community — AI
I didn't want to pay a monthly subscription for dictation, so I built one that runs on my GPU