Observed arrival · 2026-10-08
FnFlow, local dictation for Mac
A free menu-bar app that turns speech into text in the app under your cursor, using on-device speech recognition.
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- Mac users dictating into coding and writing apps
- Worth noticing
- The built-in model is 190 MB; the site says a 1.62 GB large-v3-turbo model downloads later over Wi-Fi.
Field notes
The app describes a fallback for Electron fields that macOS does not expose: it wakes the accessibility tree, pastes, then reads the field back to check whether the text arrived. Dictations are stored as JSON and CAF files in a folder the user owns, with options to search, replay, copy, or retry using another engine. The site’s model comparison covers 32 multilingual samples, but measures word difference against large-v3-turbo output rather than a human transcript.
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