Sayso: Open Source Local Dictation for Mac, Windows, Linux

One documented open source studio, a feature list that overlaps with part of a paid creative suite, and the checks to run before you trust any 'Rust alternative' label.

After a 100,000-line LiteLLM wrapper and an upgrade that broke production, Respan rewrote its gateway around an Nginx-style core. We walk through the request path, passthrough rules and the trade-offs of a pre-alpha plugin system.

A 2026 arXiv paper scores research ideas on two axes, whether they make sense and whether anyone is positioned to propose them, and beats frontier LLMs on diversity.