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I’ve been doing these five word reviews awhile now.

From soniox.com: Compare the speech-to-text APIs on the same audio, side by side, in real time.

From wisprflow.ai: Today, the Wispr Advanced Interfaces Lab is introducing Canto, our latest speech model for real-time dictation.

Lex Friedman, on lexontech.org: I’m now the very proud developer and owner of Strategery, the classic iOS game.

MikeMcQuaid, on brew.sh: The most significant changes since 6.0.0 are faster installations and upgrades, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, built-in vulnerability checks and an advisory database, the end of macOS 10.15 support and Intel Macs moving…

Meta Superintelligence Labs, on research.meta.ai: Muse Voice Transcribe marks a first milestone in bringing our real-time voice models to you.

Jack Baty, on baty.blog: Personally, I hate X and Musk and the whole lot of them, but I’m beginning to hate the lazy righteous finger pointing from the “good guys” just as much.

From Mariano, on multilingualsttbench.com: A private multilingual speech-to-text benchmark focused on short, multilingual sentences and noisy, mispronounced, real-world audio.

Diego Melendo Casado, on blog.google: Today, we’re introducing Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, our most precise speech-to-text model yet, designed for intelligent voice interactions.

Zhenyi Tan, on andadinosaur.com: Wallflower replaces Reddit’s web pages with a boring reader.

From casewrites.leaflet.pub: Sol:OS was supposed to be the software layer for the DC-1 that would bring the company’s vision of a healthier computer to life.

Marco Arment, on marco.org: The Reminders app, though, doesn’t fit me at all.

From Reddit: “I’m also excited to announce our free CrossPoint Sync service at sync.crosspointreader.com which lets you use the already built in KOSync feature to push reading progress over to Hardcover and other services.

Diirge, on reddit.com: Look, I’m biased, I head up CrossPoint, but I want to give xteink a shootout here.

From adriansieber.com: I’m very excited to announce the 1.0 release of Perspec!

Brett, on brettterpstra.com: So I built TerminalWidget: a universal app that lets you push text, charts, progress, images, and tables into widgets from the tools you already use — the command line, Shortcuts, AppleScript, or a URL scheme.

OpenAI, on youtube.com: Meet gpt-transcribe and gpt-live-transcribe, two new models for batch and live transcription.

From freeink.org: Free Ink is an open-source collective building the software, firmware and hardware for e-paper readers.

João Carrasqueira, on xda-developers.com: This desktop environment just keeps getting better, and it’s quickly establishing itself as a major competitor to long-standing alternatives.

Alex MacCaw, on reflect.app: Today we’re making the biggest change to Reflect since we launched.

Date: 2026-07-16 Title: Apple’s New Speech API vs Whisper: The First Real Benchmark titlelink: https://get-inscribe.com/blog/apple-speech-api-benchmark.html Draft: No — Inscribe, on get-inscribe.com: Apple’s new SpeechAnalyzer is the most accurate on-devi…

Matt Birchler, on birchtree.me: It’s still not 100% perfect, and it’s not as good as something like Aqua Voice or WhisperFlow on the Mac, but it’s definitely an improvement and is something that I will use more often.

Andrew Liszewski, on theverge.com: Amazon has announced that starting on May 20th, 2026, Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier will “no longer be able to purchase, borrow, or download new content via the Kindle Store,” Amaz…

Jacob Fu, on cotabby.app: Open-source AI autocomplete for the apps you already use, powered by Apple Intelligence or local models and kept entirely on your Mac.

Brian Guthrie, on brianguthrie.com: Prospero is a Claude Code plugin I built to make me a better (I hope!)

Shawn Smucker, on shawnsmucker.substack.com: Be sure to use AI when making your next, I don’t know, meal plan, for example.

kepano, on obsidian.md: Today we’re excited to launch Obsidian Community, the new directory and developer dashboard for Obsidian plugins and themes.

Ben McCarthy, on benricemccarthy.ghost.io: Indigo brings together Bluesky and Mastodon into a single, unified experience.

Michael Kozlowski, on goodereader.com: Remarkable, the company that makes distraction-free e-notebooks that can be used for editing PDF files, freehand drawing, or taking notes.

Julian Mack, Ekagra Ranjan, Walter Beller-Morales, Bharat venkitesh, Pierre Richemond, on huggingface.co: In English, cohere-transcribe outperforms both proprietary and open-source competitors to take the #1 spot on the huggingface Open ASR Leaderboard.

From x.ai: Today, we are excited to announce two powerful standalone audio APIs: Grok Speech to Text (STT) and Grok Text to Speech (TTS).

Paul Jiménez Vela, on workspaceupdates.googleblog.com: Today, we’re bringing the Gemini app to macOS as a native desktop experience, designed to live right where you work.

Abner Li, on 9to5google.com: This app is intended to bring the “best of Google Search right to your desktop.”

David Price, on macworld.com: But is that an excuse?

Ricky Mondello, on hachyderm.io: New to macOS 26.4, the menu extra for the Passwords app shares its unlock state with the full app.