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24 alternatives to FluidAudio – Swift Speaker Diarization on CoreML
We needed a speaker diarization solution that could run every few seconds alongside transcription on iOS and macOS. But native Swift support was either limited or locked behind paid licenses. Since diarization is a common need in speech-to-text workflows, we decided to open source our work and give back to the community. We initially tried sherpa-onnx, which works, but running both diarization and transcription models slowed down older devices. CPU-only inference just isn’t ideal for near real-time workloads, so we wanted the option to offload segmentation and speaker embedding to the GPU or…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 3 we have checked on their own sites, 3 of them free or with a free tier.
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Dictlyfree tier, from $29.99/mo▲240TL;DR: I built a native macOS dictation app that transcribes locally and instantly. Text appears as you speak (measured ~100 ms first‑character latency). No accounts, no servers, no tracking. Links: • Website: https://dictly.app • Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/dictly-no-keys-just-clarity/id... • Free download; optional Pro tier (pipelines, unlimited history, etc.) What it does Real‑time transcription — streaming text while you talk, not after you stop. Quick‑Capture Overlay (macOS) — global hotkey, drop text into any app/field.…
Oct 2025 · dictly.app · its alternatives →
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HyNote for Mac▲368Free local transcription that is 100% Private
Aug 2026 · hynote.ai · its alternatives →
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:speech_balloon: An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System - GitHub - iceychris/LibreASR: :speech_balloon: An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm a longtime web dev, but this is my first macOS app. Feedback is very welcome <3 I built TongueType because every dictation app I tried failed at least one of three things: it sent my audio to someone's cloud, it charged me monthly fee, or it felt clunky or enterprisy. The cloud thing kills it for anything sensitive. The subscription thing is insulting for what amounts to "Whisper + a hotkey." TongueType runs Whisper locally on Apple Silicon via CoreML. It's built to feel like a second keyboard: tap the hotkey, talk, let go, words appear. It sits in the menu bar (no dock icon, no…
May 2026 · tonguetype.app · its alternatives →
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Dictatofree tier, from $20.82/mo▲93I built a macOS dictation app where everything runs on-device. Transcription, auto-correct, translation. No audio or text leaves your machine. It ships with 4 transcription engines you can swap between: WhisperKit (99 languages), NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B (25 European languages, fastest of the bunch), Qwen3-ASR 0.6B (30 languages), and Apple Speech on macOS 26+. They all run through CoreML/Metal. Whisper is the most versatile, Parakeet wins on raw latency for European languages, Qwen3 does better with CJK. I went with a protocol-based architecture so you pick the engine that fits your…
Feb 2026 · dicta.to · its alternatives →
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Yapfree▲140Open-source voice dictation for Mac, fully on-device
Jul 2026 · frigade.com · its alternatives →
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TalkFlowy▲75Local real-time voice transcription for Mac
Apr 2026 · talkflowy.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I wanted to share this OSS project I've been working on. It's called Yap and its a small menu-bar app for macOS that does voice to text for any input. You'll set a hotkey, press it, talk, press it again, and the text gets pasted into whatever field you were in. Everything runs locally and never leaves your computer. Fully OSS and MIT licensed. With macOS 26, Apple recently added two new APIs, SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber, that do streaming on-device speech to text using models the OS ships and manages. So the app ships no model of its own and loads nothing before the first…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Spoke▲102Dictate into any Mac app by holding a key. Spoke runs fully on-device using local AI — no cloud, no account, no subscription. $9.99 one-time.
Mar 2026 · usespoke.app · its alternatives →
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Here is a tool I built initially for myself to help with my German and Greek language studies. It started as a hack for creating Anki cards from native language audio. It extracts the words, finds their base forms (lemmas) and groups the examples by the lemma. At some point I realised that I have a transcription with word level timestamps that opens a lot of other opportunities. So I added a mode to click the first and last word in the transcript and it starts looping with the right gap and repeat count. Another feature I use a lot is selecting an audio fragment, sending a predefined prompt…
Jun 2026 · lingochunk.com · its alternatives →
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Local transcripts with speaker labels, timestamps, + export
Dec 2025 · whispersnapper.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on called Convoxa. It’s a native iOS transcriber/summarizer. I had two main goals: keep it efficient and keep it private. THE TECH STACK 100% Swift & SwiftUI: No heavy cross-platform wrappers or bloated dependencies. Binary Size: The final build is only 4.8 MB. Transcription: Uses Apple's latest speech APIs for maximum privacy and efficiency. THE CHALLENGE: BYPASSING THE 4K CONTEXT LIMIT The biggest technical hurdle was working with Apple’s foundation models. The default context window is capped at 4096 tokens, which is practically…
Jan 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Sayline▲83I built a voice dictation app for macOS mostly because I was tired of how awful Siri is and I didn't want to pay a subscription for cloud tools. The app uses NVIDIA's Parakeet v3 (TDT) as the primary engine. Inference is handled by the FluidAudio library. It's insanely fast on M-series chips. For Intel users, I added local Whisper support ranging from Tiny up to Large v3 Turbo (quantized to save space). The interesting part was the AI integration. I originally tried to pipeline the ASR output into Apple's Intelligence Foundation Model. It was a nightmare, because the content moderation…
Jan 2026 · sayline.app · its alternatives →
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MacWhisper▲123High quality text transcription with OpenAI's whisper on Mac
2023 · goodsnooze.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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We built SwiftAI, an open-source Swift library that lets you use Apple’s on-device LLMs when available (Apple opened access in June), and fall back to a cloud model when they aren’t available — all without duplicating code. SwiftAI gives you: - A single, model-agnostic API - An agent/tool loop - Strongly-typed structured outputs - Optional chat state Backstory: We started experimenting with Apple’s local models because they’re free (no API calls), private, and work offline. The problem: not all devices support them (older iPhones, Apple Intelligence disabled, low battery, etc.). That…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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VoxTori▲70Real-time subtitles, translation, and dictation for Mac
Apr 2026 · voxtori.com · its alternatives →
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Stenox▲72Your voice, perfectly transcribed in every app & browser
Jan 2026 · stenox.app · its alternatives →
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A real-time transcription project using React and socketio - GitHub - saharmor/realtime-transcription-playground: A real-time transcription project using React and socketio
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Create AI-generated transcripts in minutes.
2021 · transcribeninja.com · its alternatives →
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Audiopipe is a one-liner for denoising, diarization and transcription with demucs + pyannote + insanely-fast-whisper. Made it to transcribe podcasts and Dungeons And Dragons sessions, figured it could be useful. It also has a wasm UI to load transcriptions and audio. Feel free to contribute! Feedback appreciated.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m excited to share SpeechAnalyzerDylib, a tiny C-compatible dynamic library that wraps Apple’s upcoming SpeechAnalyzer API in macOS 26.0 (Tahoe). If you’re building a Swift, Objective-C, or plain C project and want to add on-device transcription with virtually no boilerplate, this might help. ## Key Features - *C-FFI wrapper* Exposes a simple, C-compatible API so you can call from Swift, Objective-C or plain C. - *Asynchronous File Transcription* `sw_transcribeFile(const char filePath, const char locale, TranscriptionCallback callback, void userData)` Transcribe any audio file on…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Voice transcription app that lives in your macOS menu bar. Hold your hotkey to record, release to paste. On-device speech recognition, 35+ languages.
May 2026 · voxxy.io · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, I'm excited to share a small project I hacked together last night: a local tool to transcribe and summarize voice memos from the iOS and MacOS Voice Memos app. What does it do? It's a lifesaver for anyone who, like me, records loads of voice memos and needs an efficient way to integrate these recordings into their note-keeping system (like Obsidian). Why is this useful? - No Cloud Processing: Your voice memos are processed entirely on your device, ensuring privacy and security. - Integration with Note-taking Apps: Directly pull transcribed and summarized content into your…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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