Polly wants a transcript: giving agents ears and a voice, on your own machine (opens in new tab)

Half the messages I send my coding agents these days start life as a voice note. I'm walking the dog, an idea lands, I mumble it into my phone, and later something turns it into text an agent can actually act on. It's a great workflow — right up until you notice where the audio goes to become text. Because the default answer to "transcribe this" is still: ship it to someone's cloud. Whisper API, AWS Transcribe, Deepgram, Google Speech-to-Text. Your voice — which is about as personal as data g...