Jan3 recently made a phone app for speech to text. The app is very easy to use and works really well, even on a fairly old phone: https://github.com/jan3dev/a1echos. Handy.computer (speech to text) works amazingly well too, even on an old desktop. ppq.ai also made it easy to use end-to-end encrypted models and pay privately with Lightning, without an account. I have personally put many friends on ppq.ai, even friends who really don’t consider themselves technical. trymaple.ai is also an interesting option. I think the LLM memory wiki trend is also very inspiring. Done well, it seems likely to allow the use of less powerful models and still get pretty good results.