Observed arrival · 2026-09-19
Talkloom, the offline Mac dictation tool
A menu-bar Mac app that transcribes speech locally and types it into ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Slack, or any other text field.
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$Paid
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✦Pretty
●Pro
◎Niche
◉Human
⚑Risk
ƒJS
- For
- Mac users who dictate prompts and technical notes
- Worth noticing
- It passes custom vocabulary to the local model as a hint and cleans repeated words and hallucinated tails.
Field notes
The app uses a locally downloaded Whisper large-v3-turbo model, with the homepage listing a 574 MB recommended download and smaller options for older machines. Users can add product names and jargon as vocabulary hints, while the app pastes into the active field and restores the clipboard. The stated platform requirement is macOS 13 or newer on Apple silicon; Intel support is not available yet.
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○OpenPublic substance visible
$PaidCommerce or pricing visible
✦PrettyNotable craft visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
ƒJavaScriptBrowser-side code central
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