Whisperly

Hi everyone. It's always easier to formulate a thought in your native language, and when you work in another one that slows you down every day, so I built Whisperly. You hold a hotkey, say it however it comes out, and the text lands where your cursor already is: a straight transcript, or run through cleanup that drops the ums without rewriting how you sound, or translated into the language you need to send. Wiring up the speech model took an afternoon. The rest of it is where the time went: the cleanup, the hotkey handling, custom vocabulary for the names every recognizer mangles, and the paste step, which I didn't expect to be the hard part. macOS gives you no reliable way to confirm that an arbitrary app accepted inserted text, so when Whisperly can't confirm the text landed, it puts the result on your clipboard and tells you so. It's a menu bar app, direct download, no Mac App Store. Free covers 2,000 words a week, and new accounts get 14 days of Pro with no card, so translation and the tones are open while you're trying it. The thing I'd like feedback on is the tone setting. In cleanup and translation you pick one of four: Original, Casual, Neutral, Formal. Original is the default and leaves your wording alone, the other three make the text more casual, neutral or formal. I still don't know whether people want that choice or would rather have one mode that just works. If you try it, tell me which one you stayed in.