Observed arrival · 2026-09-11
Cockatiel, a private dictation app for Mac
A push-to-talk Mac app that turns speech into refined text at the cursor using on-device transcription and a personal dictionary.
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Cockatiel uses a hold-to-speak, release-to-refine workflow and inserts the resulting sentence at the active cursor rather than requiring a separate editor. Its local vocabulary layer can turn recurring phrases such as “follow up” into “follow-up,” with the page showing dictionary search, saved terms, and correction evidence. The listed build is version 0.1.0, a 13.6 MB Apple-silicon download for macOS 26 Tahoe or later.
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