I found the UX of most speech-to-text apps unnecessarily complicated, so I built Humm as a simple, privacy-first alternative.
Press a custom hotkey, talk, and the text lands in whatever app you're in.
- It runs locally on NVIDIA's Parakeet models - no account and no telemetry
- Works on Windows and Mac
- You can bring your own key if you'd prefer to use cloud models
- Includes a stats page so you can measure timed saved vs typing
- Options to set zero local txt or audio retention
Under the hood:
- Tauri 2
- A modified parakeet.cpp doing realtime transcription, so you see your words as you speak (this feature is windows only for now)
- Qwen3 4B for optional on-device cleanup (rather slow but working on making this better)