Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

Ghost Pepper, a macOS app offering local hold-to-talk speech-to-text without cloud dependencies, earned 354 points from a community fed up with privacy-invasive voice assistants. It is 100% on-device, faster than the average cloud-based alternative by cutting latency to under 200 milliseconds. Unlike #4 Claude Code’s bug report, which highlights broken functionality, Ghost Pepper delivers a working solution that directly addresses user control and data security.