Observed arrival · 2026-11-03
Soffio puts dictation at the cursor
A Mac menu-bar app that turns speech into text in the app you’re using, with an offline local engine and an optional cloud route.
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- For
- Mac users who dictate across desktop apps
- Worth noticing
- The 125 ms median is reported from 430 dictations on an M1 Pro; older Macs and long, unpaused dictation may take longer.
Field notes
The workflow starts with Fn or a user-chosen shortcut; a small pill indicates listening, Esc cancels, and the result goes into the current text field. The page says the local engine uses about 50 MB of memory and works offline. An optional Groq route races the local engine when the user supplies a key. The latency figures are the maker’s own tests using recorded clips on an M1 Pro, not independent measurements.
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