Observed arrival · 2026-10-03

DictateLocal keeps Mac dictation on the Mac

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A macOS dictation app that turns speech into text in the app you’re using, with transcription and other features described as running locally.

Landing page captured for the 2026-10-03 issue.

For: Mac users who want local speech-to-text
Worth noticing: It describes French-specific spacing and quotation marks, plus voice commands for paragraph breaks and cancellation.

Field notes

The workflow uses a small on-screen capsule to show provisional speech, then inserts the finished text where the cursor was; Escape cancels a dictation. The page also specifies French typographic handling, including nonbreaking spaces before certain punctuation, and describes generating SRT or VTT subtitles from audio or video files. Recognition is presented as offline after model downloads, with Apple Silicon required.

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