Observed arrival · 2026-08-28

DictumScribe Keeps Dictation on Your Mac

dictumscribe.com Observed source

Editorial interest 82/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

A free, open-source macOS utility that turns push-to-talk speech into text locally, then pastes the result into any app.

Landing page captured for the 2026-08-28 issue.

Field notes

The application uses a held Ctrl+Option shortcut, then releases the captured speech into the currently active app after local transcription. Its model menu spans English-only and multilingual Whisper variants, from 142 MB base models through a 1.5 GB medium model. The page identifies the software as version 0.1.0 and says it supports macOS 10.15 or later on both Apple Silicon and Intel hardware.

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