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

The Good Tech Companies · Aug 18, 2026 · 9m

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/cloud-or-local-speech-to-text-we-built-the-same-app-both-ways-heres-what-we-learnt. How a hackathon dictation app running Speechmatics on-device speech-to-text exposed why real-time diarization needs GPU acceleration, CoreML, and DirectML. Check more stories related to undefined at: https://hackernoon.com/c/undefined. You can also check exclusive content about #speech-to-text, #local-ai, #on-device-ai, #speech-to-text-workflows, #local-text-to-speech, #local-llm, #ai-model-running-locally, #good-company, and more…