Fact · Dictation software
Petal's README says its on-device Petal W1 model turns rambling dictation into the short message the speaker meant.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 25, 2026
In the source's own words
“It turns a rambling dictation into the short message you meant”
Petal: native macOS app for local-first transcription (GitHub README), Aayush9029, GitHub, 2026, Petal W1.
Open the original- What it measures
- From the README section on Petal W1, the on-device cleanup model fine-tuned from Qwen3.5-2B.
- What it does not show
- The grading in the README is the maker's own: Claude Sonnet graded 120 held-out dictations. The page reports no independent test.
In the data
A row of Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI, as Petal: Petal W1 cleanup: 1 1 = yes, 0 = no.
- App
- Petal
- Feature
- Rewrites or formats with AI
- Detail
- Petal W1 on-device cleanup
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- 1 means the maker's page says the app does this