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How about OpenAIs whisper[0]? My social science friends tell me it‘s been great for them. Not sure whether data privacy et all would be an issue of course, but I guess you can just run it locally :)

[0]https://github.com/openai/whisper



Dragon is an app, whisper is a model with a CLI that takes .wav files. Totally different user experience.

you can run whisper locally on your machine.



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