Mac dictation · Whisper large-v3, fine-tuned on you
it learns your voice.
zunos clones your voice to write its own homework, fine-tunes Whisper on how you actually talk, then transcribes right on your Mac. Any of Whisper’s 99 languages, accent included.
Press the button to talk
or · loudness meter only, nothing is recorded or uploaded
Test · recordings it never trained on
fewer slips than Sarvam,
in English and Gujarati.
Word error rate, lower is better. Bars run from 0 to 42%.
- English1.17× betterzunos 14.4%Sarvam 16.9%
- Gujarati1.45× betterzunos 27.4%Sarvam 39.7%
- HindiSarvam, for nowzunos 19.8%Sarvam 17.6%
English 14.4% means about 14 slips per 100 words, against 17. Small test set (about 100 words per language); Hindi needs more of my real voice.
ZUNOS · TRAINING RUN v3a
runpod · cloud GPU · one voice
- you, reading out loud
- 7.6 min
- clips cut from that
- 36
- …kept aside to test
- 13
- sentences written
- 721
- your cloned voice
- IndicF5 + Chatterbox
- fans, babble, echo
- mixed in
- Whisper large-v3
- fine-tuned
TOTAL$6.49
every transcription after this$0.00
on your Mac, forever · thanks for talking
case notesOct 2026, very fresh
zunos
Dictation that fine-tunes Whisper on your own voice, in 99 languages
What it is
A Mac dictation app that learns your voice. It clones your voice to make synthetic training data, fine-tunes Whisper large-v3 on rented GPUs, then transcribes on your machine. Works in any of Whisper’s 99 languages, accents included.
The bit I'm proud of
14.4% word error rate on English against Sarvam’s 16.9%, and the whole cloud training run cost $6.49.
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