Local Dictation · macOS
Talk. It types.
Nothing leaves your Mac.
A private, on-device dictation app for macOS. Hold ⌃ Space, speak, and release — your words land at the cursor in any app. Transcribed and cleaned up on-device, fully offline.
Private by design
Your voice stays yours.
Most dictation tools stream your audio to a server. Local Dictation never does — transcription and cleanup happen entirely on your machine.
- No cloud, ever. Audio is processed on-device and discarded — never uploaded.
- No account, no telemetry. Zero network calls to transcribe a word.
- Open source. Read every line on GitHub.
How it works
Speak → transcribe → inserted.
The overlay breathes with your voice and tells you exactly what stage it’s in. This is the app’s real interface.
Hold ⌃Space and talk. A live waveform and rolling transcript show it's hearing you.
Release. Whisper transcribes locally and a small model cleans up the text — all offline.
The finished text is typed at your cursor and copied to the clipboard. The panel auto-dismisses.
It adapts to you
Correct it once. It remembers.
Fix a dictation with ⌃⌥Z and the swap becomes a rule — on-device, private, yours. The more you talk, the more it sounds like you.
“Ask clot to refactor this.”
“Ask Claude to refactor this.”
Right, automaticallyWhat’s inside
Built to feel instant and stay out of the way.
Push-to-talk
Hold ⌃ Space, speak, release. Your words appear at the cursor — in any app, native or web.
100% on-device
Whisper and a local language model run entirely on your Mac. No internet, no account, no cloud.
Smart correction
Fixes what speech-to-text mishears — clot → Claude — and leaves real words alone.
Custom vocabulary
Teach it your names, jargon, and product terms so they transcribe right every time.
Types anywhere
Inserts at your cursor with smart spacing and capitalization that continues the sentence.
Self-contained
Bundled Whisper + llama servers, zero Homebrew deps, and it updates itself via Sparkle.
Get it
Try dictation that stays on your Mac.
Apple Silicon · macOS 14+. It isn’t notarized by Apple, so on first launch open it via the bundled installer, or right-click → Open / System Settings → Open Anyway.