Meetings. Voice commands. Dictation. Chat. All on your Mac. All private. Reads context from any app. Build it your way. $240/year. Lifetime: $720.
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alter | Contextual AI for Mac retweeted
While everyone is going bonkers about Claude Cowork, I look at a really cool alternative, fittingly named "Alter." See what's is all about...
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@alterhq_ @AnthropicAI @OlivierLegris
alter | Contextual AI for Mac retweeted
The 2025 AI Dictation Orbit Award winners are HERE.
These are the voice tools that actually showed up this year — the ones people kept using long after launch day.
@WisprFlow, @WillowvoiceAI, @MacWhisperapp, @Itoassists, @alterhq_ ,@aquavoice, @superwhisper.
Background Jobs are live.
Execute any Alter Action silently—no conversation window, no UI clutter.
Grammar fixes, customer support automation, instant recommendations.
One keystroke. Done.
This is what invisible automation actually looks like.
youtube.com/watch?v=nKx7Ybic…
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🧵 Teach Alter Your Defaults
1/ What if your AI assistant actually remembered who you are? Not in a creepy way, in a useful way.
Today, we're introducing Manage Settings, the first step toward giving Alter memory and a lot more.
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3/ The most powerful setting? Your persona.
Tell Alter who you are and how you work.
"I'm a senior software engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure. I prefer concise, technical explanations with code examples."
Now every interaction becomes more relevant, more useful, more you.
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4/ Update to the latest version and start teaching Alter who you are.
Let us know what you customize first.
Full guide: alterhq.com/blog/manage-sett…
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Stop taking notes like it's 1995.
We just shipped Live Notepad. It's an AI assistant that sits next to your meeting and actually helps you capture what matters.
No more choosing between listening and typing.
youtu.be/UZ9B9ZJQUfE
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Update to the latest version and try it in your next meeting.
This changes how you actually work.
alterhq.com
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Just shipped Pyannote 4 / Community-1 in Alter 🎙️
Shoutout to @pyannoteAI and @argmax for the new SOTA in speaker diarization — now running fully local on Mac.
Live on Product Hunt today with 1 year FREE. Try it now 🚀
producthunt.com/products/alt…
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What's new with Pyannote 4?
1. better speaker assignment, less confusion vs v3.1
2. 15x faster training with optimized tooling in pyannote.audio 4.0
3. Exclusive speaker mode - fixes Whisper/STT timestamp reconciliation headaches
More on pyannote.ai/blog/community-1
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alter | Contextual AI for Mac retweeted
PREVIEW: Whisper Large v3 Turbo on iPhone
- 2.5x faster on the 17 Pro GPU compared to 16 Pro
- 1.25x faster on the 17 Pro Neural Engine compared to 16 Pro
- Neural Engine is still 4x faster than GPU on 17 Pro, down from 8x
Full blog with thermal tests and more model coverage dropping tomorrow.
Happy iPhone performance benchmarking day to those who celebrate!
Incoming on-device inference benchmarks:
Devices
- iPhone 16 Pro vs 17 Pro
- iPhone 17 Air vs 17 Pro
Models
- @OpenAI Whisper Large v3 Turbo
- @NVIDIAAI Parakeet v3
- @pyannoteAI v3
Just finished 30 days testing Parakeet v3 vs Whisper for our macOS app.
Here's what we learned about local speech-to-text and local diarization 🧵
Full breakdown:
reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comm…
#SpeechToText #Whisper #LocalLLM #AI #Parakeet #MACOS
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Language support is hit or miss.
Claims 25 languages but quality varies a lot.
English and French work great.
Tested Dutch with a colleague - pretty rough results.
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