Observed arrival · 2026-10-19
Mouthtype: hold a key, speak, keep your voice
Mouthtype is a Mac dictation app that transcribes speech locally, then cleans up the text while aiming to preserve the speaker’s wording.
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- Mac users who dictate while working
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- The page says recognition runs locally and links to GPL-3.0 source code; the Mac release is still a release candidate.
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The page distinguishes its default cleanup from a rewrite: it says filler can be removed and punctuation added while the speaker’s voice is kept. A worked example shows an “As spoken” sentence beside a cleaned-up version, including saved spelling. The Mac build is labeled a release candidate for macOS 26+ on Apple Silicon; the site also links to GPL-3.0 source and a Linux test client.
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