Cloud or Local Speech-to-Text? We Built the Same App Both Ways. Here's What We Learnt.

Cloud or Local Speech-to-Text? We Built the Same App Both Ways. Here's What We Learnt.

One Electron app, two modes, one interface. What a two-day hackathon build taught us about on-device diarization, CoreML and DirectML, read against a production on-device engine. At this year's internal hackathon, our esteemed colleagues Georgios Hadjiharalambous and Stuart Wood set out to build Inkwell, a dictation app centered around high-accuracy and speaker-aware note-taking, powered by Speechmatics speech-to-text. Nothing too unusual there.…