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00:00:00Just to talk to your computer instead of typing it all out, you end up with another subscription
00:00:04to something like Whisperflow. And yeah, it's good. You'd think the free thing we already have
00:00:10on Mac would be good enough, but it's not. This is Fluid Voice. It runs completely on your own
00:00:17machine and it's growing in popularity as a strong competitor to Whisperflow and all the others.
00:00:27Fluid Voice is a free open source Mac app that turns your voice into text. And every part of that
00:00:33happens on your own computer. Nothing ever gets shipped off to a server somewhere, which is a huge
00:00:38win. Two reasons this is good for us. And there are the exact two things devs complain about. First,
00:00:44your voice and whatever you're dictating might be code or private, and this never leaves your Mac.
00:00:50Second, you're not paying another monthly bill to do it. Here's how simple this is.
00:00:55A model called Parakeet listens and writes down what you say. Then a second local model called
00:01:02Fluid Intelligence acts like an editor sitting right next to you, fixing your capitalization,
00:01:07punctuation, and structure as you talk. You hit one hotkey that you set, speak, and the cleaned up text
00:01:14drops into whatever your cursor is already at. Into cursor, clods, slack, mails, notes. It doesn't
00:01:19really care which one. Now, this is super simple to spin up, so I'll keep the demo short too.
00:01:24It's a one-line install. You open it, give it mic and accessibility permissions. Every Mac app
00:01:31makes you do this, so you have to do it anyways. And then you can choose a hotkey or use the one
00:01:36built in. So there's no real difference here. Now, watch this. I hold the key and I just talk normally
00:01:42here. Can you check over my code and make sure it's set up with some good practices to prevent
00:01:47bugs. And it didn't just collapse. Look at what it just did. It capitalized the line, punctuated it,
00:01:55kept my technical word spelled right, and formatted it like an actual comment. I didn't fix one thing.
00:02:01No spinner, no waiting, because there's no cloud to actually wait on here. So where does this actually
00:02:07sit next to everything else? Well, this is actually four times faster than using other ones already out
00:02:12there. And on top of that, this is where it gets interesting. The dictation already on your Mac is
00:02:16free and for a text message, it's fine. For a commit message or a doc, someone actually going to read
00:02:22that, it's probably not so great. Whisperflow is the paid, so you'd expect it just wins here. But
00:02:27it's subscription. Your audio goes to a cloud. For a lot of us, that second part is a deal breaker
00:02:33before we even get to the price. Super Whisper and the rest are good tools. Still cost money.
00:02:38They don't quite match the local cleanup. Fluid voice is actually doing. So the free one that was
00:02:43supposed to be the weakest, it's the only one that's free open source and does the smart formatting
00:02:48right there on our machine. On Apple Silicon, it's fast enough that you can forget it's even thinking.
00:02:55Now, before you run off and install this, it's great that it's free, right? There's no subscription.
00:02:59It's great that it's private. Our voice stays on our Mac. On M series machines, it's fast and the
00:03:05formatting is actually pretty good. And it's open source and actively worked on, so problems are
00:03:10getting fixed. But on the flip side of things, it's Mac only right now. iOS and Windows are on the
00:03:16wait list. So if you live on Windows, this isn't your tool just yet. The editor model is about three
00:03:22and a half gigs. So it's a real download. It's not a quick one. It's best, like I said, on the
00:03:27silicon chips, it does run on Intel. It's just slower. And if you dictate in a language other
00:03:32than English, you might have to tune it to get it just right. But you should know all that now,
00:03:36not after you spend 10 minutes trying to download this the hard way. You probably expect me to say
00:03:42it's worth it now, but I won't. For most Mac devs, yeah, okay, this might be worth giving a shot.
00:03:48It's worth it if you don't want another monthly payment just to dictate things for you. Which,
00:03:52come on, who does want that? Use it for boring typing, email, docs, code comments,
00:03:57Slack messages, heck, talk to Claude. On a Mac M4 Pro, it's really nice because it's all local and it's
00:04:03quick. If you need Windows or iOS right now, sorry, but this can't help you. So here's what you could
00:04:08actually do. Run it as your everyday tool on Mac and keep something cross-platform around for when
00:04:13you're not on Mac. You get the best of both worlds and it costs you nothing if you're using Mac.
00:04:18The GitHub link and the brew command are both in the description below. If you enjoy coding tips and
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