alt.hn

6/5/2026 at 5:33:41 PM

Show HN: On-device transcriber that's 97% accurate at identifying speakers

by marshalla

6/5/2026 at 8:48:05 PM

Hey Marshall! Cool to see this coming together, kudos for buildimg the tool you wish you had, thats the right reason to do things!

it seems like these “realtime meeting assistant / transcriber” services have taken a huge leap closer to being what I too have have often found myself wishing for. (Recently I gave Hedy AI a shot, very much in the same neighborhood functionally feels like)

out of curiosity, for Mimic’s Local Mode, whatre the tech specs required for a reasonable level of performance?

by mattlohkamp

6/5/2026 at 9:02:29 PM

Matt, Thanks!

I just tried Hedy, same concept, also a great tool. It's todos are nice.

MimicScribe works well with any Apple silicon Mac so it'll feel snappy on an M1 with 8GB of RAM even. It uses Apple's on-device ML accelerator, the ANE. https://mimicscribe.app/docs/performance

by marshalla

6/6/2026 at 8:08:03 AM

Somehow I expected from the headline it identifies loudspeakers by their sound signature and got really curious :)

by apex_sloth

6/6/2026 at 2:37:30 PM

lol that'd be a trick. I'd have it purposely misidentify to cheaper brands to mess with people.

by marshalla

6/6/2026 at 12:41:16 AM

Looks great! Feature suggestion: would be great to plug in ollama for the AI parts. Not as great as a BYOK, but worth it to those who want to keep everything local

by pavelpilyak

6/6/2026 at 4:47:12 PM

running locally is great, but I would wonder about the system requirements (I love my mac air but ollama on 8GB with an Intel i5 probably would be a little too much for the little thing). But having a toggle option would be great

by bissellator

6/6/2026 at 6:17:28 AM

Hey thanks! Good call. I had limited success getting Qwen 3.5 9B working for some of the longer prompts that require lots of json output. I feel like completely on-device is so close to being usable for this stuff though. I should revisit this, actually.

by marshalla