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Products that do what Private voice-to-text for macOS using Apple's SpeechAnalyzer does

I built a menu bar app for voice typing on macOS that's 100% on-device. No cloud, no subscription, no data collection. It uses Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer framework (macOS 26 Tahoe), which means: - Speech models are system-managed, not bundled – the app is just 1.5MB - Models run outside your app's memory space - Automatic punctuation and optional emoji conversion Press a hotkey, speak, and your words appear in real-time in whatever app has focus. An audio-reactive screen border shows you're recording. MIT licensed: https://github.com/leftouterjoins/voicewrite I built this…

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Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download▲104
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
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Spoke▲102
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Speakmac▲78
Private voice typing for Mac that works anywhere
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Speakmac▲190
The offline dictation macOS should have had
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Yap▲140
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Trace▲88
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Open-source Mac dictation App that's 100% on-device
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Harker 2.0▲115
Private speech-to-text on your Mac
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TalkFlowy▲75
Local real-time voice transcription for Mac
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Open-source macOS AI copilot using vision and voice▲430
Heeey! I built a macOS copilot that has been useful to me, so I open sourced it in case others would find it useful too. It's pretty simple: - Use a keyboard shortcut to take a screenshot of your active macOS window and start recording the microphone. - Speak your question, then press the keyboard shortcut again to send your question + screenshot off to OpenAI Vision - The Vision response is presented in-context/overlayed over the active window, and spoken to you as audio. - The app keeps running in the background, only taking a screenshot/listening when activated by keyboard…
2023 · github.com
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superwhisper▲274
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Spokenly▲178
Type 4x faster with your voice
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VoiceOS▲287
Say it and it's done. Work 10x faster with your voice.
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Dictato▲93
Local instant voice-to-text for every Mac
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VoiceOS App Store▲330
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Supavoice▲206
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Privacy-First Voice-to-Text for macOS▲31
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Harker▲138
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TongueType for macOS▲109
Local dictation for macOS without the subscription
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MacWhisper▲123
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Silkwave Voice▲70
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