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Record your microphone, system audio simultaneously

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    Wave310

    Turn your voice into text — local or cloud, your choice

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  7. 7OS

    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

  8. 8YO

    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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    Aloud118

    Turn spoken feedback into tasks your coding agent can run

    18d ago · aloud.sh

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    Extremely accurate, AI powered voice-to-text for macOS

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    talat149

    Realtime meeting notes that don’t leave your Mac

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    Record, capture and transcribe audio & video in minutes

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    On-device Mac dictation that types into any app

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    Transcribe & summarize looooong voice memos

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    Local push-to-talk dictation for Mac

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    Speech to text with smarter transcription

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    Juno167

    Free, local AI powered Voice to Text w/ live transcriptions

    Jun 2026 · usejuno.co

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    Yap140

    Open-source voice dictation for Mac, fully on-device

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    Record, transcribe, curate audio + voice memos iPhone/iPad

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