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Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS
100% local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS. Hold Control to record, release to transcribe and paste. No cloud APIs, no data leaves your machine. Download the latest release — macOS 14.0+, Apple Silicon (M1+) Ghost Pepper uses open-source models that run entirely on your Mac. Models download automatically and are cached locally. Speech models powered by WhisperKit . Cleanup models powered by LLM.swift . All models served by Hugging Face . Built with WhisperKit , LLM.swift , Hugging Face , and Sparkle . All models run locally, no private data leaves your computer. And it's spicy to offer something for free that other apps have raised $80M to build. Ghost Pepper requires Accessibility permission, which normally needs admin access to grant. On managed devices, IT admins can pre-approve this via an MDM profile (Jamf, Kandji, Mosaic, etc.) using a Privacy Preferences Policy Control (PPPC) payload:
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