Observed arrival · 2026-09-05
Holos Keeps Dictation on the Mac
A native macOS dictation app that transcribes speech locally and inserts the resulting text wherever the cursor is.
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Holos holds a key while the user speaks, runs recognition on the Mac, and inserts text at the current cursor position. The page says audio is kept only in memory, while any retained history is text in ~/Library/Application Support/Holos. Its language handling identifies languages sentence by sentence and lets users exclude a language, with Ukrainian and Russian named as a specific recognition problem.
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