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Dicta: the dictation app that never leaves your Mac

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A Mac dictation app that transcribes, corrects, and rewrites speech locally, even with Wi-Fi turned off.

Why it surfaced

Dicta makes its privacy claim testable: switch off Wi-Fi and it keeps working. Speech recognition, vocabulary corrections, and AI rewriting are presented as on-device features, with particular attention to German and English and support for Apple Silicon Macs.

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