Observed arrival · 2026-09-26

Voice Is Local: Mac dictation without the cloud

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An open-source Mac app for on-device dictation, with meeting capture and speaker-labelled transcripts in development.

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For: Mac users on Apple Silicon who want local dictation
Worth noticing: It requires macOS 27 on Apple Silicon; English dictation works, while meeting capture remains in active development.

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Dictation is English-only and requires macOS 27 on Apple Silicon. The project says it uses Apple's on-device speech recognition; speaker-labelling models are downloaded from Hugging Face. The page says there is no account, analytics, telemetry, or server-side component. A signed installer and more languages are listed as later work, with the signed app planned as a one-time purchase.

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