His own dictation tool, coded with AI, is what he talks to his computer with

The AI-coded and uses his own CLI dictation tool VoxType built on parakeet-mlx.

How it works

He codes his own command-line dictation tool with AI, on a local speech model
And uses it

Why it’s worth knowing

Dictation is personal infrastructure; owning it matters.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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