Humm – free, private realtime speech-to-text

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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 retentionUnder 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

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Website: humm.so