Ads for Wisprflow are unavoidable online, but are there free tools that do the same thing? I looked into it for WIRED:
Do You Actually Need to Pay for Transcription Software?
I tested Wispr Flow and various AI-powered transcription software to see whether you should bother subscribing or stick with free services.
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@JustinPot Very thorough article as always and good to see it's in Wired.
I was reading through the comments at the end of the Wired article. I'm a bit surprised that no one mentioned privacy and security of transcription results. Especially now that AI is powering most of this process.
I, for one, would like to see more insight into what happens to my data (in this case my recorded voice); whose LLM's are training off of my personal thoughts, and who is possibly selling the audio of my actual voice.
I honestly believe if you start incorporating these additional questions into your app research and writings and share your findings, you will expand your readership and discussion.
Thanks for the comment! This is part of what motivated the piece: I wanted to find versions of this that work completely offline. If you set up any of the above applications this way you can be confident that there’s no usage of your voice being used to train models.
@JustinPot Good to know! I still need to wrap my head around 'off line AI'. More research needed on my end of course. I'm always thinking that something offline might 'shake hands' with something ONline someday and then we are off the races (where I inevitably lose). Thanks for the reply!