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Products that do what Utter, a local-first dictation app for Mac and iPhone does
I use dictation a lot for writing, notes, and prompting agents. After trying a bunch of dictation tools, I kept running into the same issues: recurring cost, unclear privacy/data handling, and not much control over how the final text was cleaned up. So I built Utter. The main idea is simple: it should work as both a fast dictation tool and a longer-form voice note / meeting capture tool, while still giving the user control over where processing happens and what the output looks like. A few things it does today: - global dictation with customizable shortcuts - saved modes for…
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Hey HN! It’s Wen from Narya.ai. We build Mumble Dictation, a local-first and privacy-focused dictation app on Mac. Homepage and Download: https://heymumble.com/dictation YouTube：https://youtu.be/Bma59TrR62c?si=DM-LyjZY5GZ9-f64 Two things kept bugging us about the dictation products on the market: 1. Most of them ship your audio to the cloud, and those who is claiming to be private are often just a thin wrapper of cloud APIs with a privacy policy. 2. Those general-purpose ASR models are terrible at your vocabulary: library names, co-workers' names, project…
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Private Voice Ring for dictation across iOS & Mac
Jul 2026 · sandbar.com
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