Software that stays on the Mac
Connecting Captions
Live captions for a presentation, a bilingual room, or any conversation that needs a translation. Each sentence appears when it is ready. Speech and translation run on the device. Voice stays on the machine unless you turn on a cloud speech model.
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The philosophy
A way of building software
Localhost is the name a computer uses for itself. Anything running there stays on your machine.
I think AI is heading toward per-request pricing for everything, at prices most people won't keep paying. I'd rather the software run on the computer you already own.
The AI makes one small decision at a time, and ordinary code handles everything around it. A small decision is easy to check, and checked decisions add up to a system that behaves the same way every time.
- Is this a full sentence?yes
- Which language is it?Korean
- Translate into?English
- Show it now?yes
Example: one caption, 0 of 4 checked
local-host is how I build things, not only the name on them. Every project here follows the same rules:
- It runs on your computer.
- You own it, and nothing is metered.
- The AI only makes decisions small enough to check.
Still coming
A local agent
Connecting Captions is the first release. Next is an agent that thinks on-device, remembers on disk, and runs skills you can open.