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    Yap140

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

    Jul 2026 · frigade.com

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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

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    Speakmac190

    The offline dictation macOS should have had

    Nov 2025 · speakmac.app

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    Wave310

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

    Jun 2026 · wave.mxv.sh

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    Local real-time voice transcription for Mac

    Apr 2026 · talkflowy.com

  6. 6GP

    I built this because I wanted to see how far I could get with a voice-to-text app that used 100% local models so no data left my computer. I've been using a ton for coding and emails. Experimenting with using it as a voice interface for my other agents too. 100% open-source MIT license, would love feedback, PRs, and ideas on where to take it.

    Apr 2026 · github.com

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    Free local transcription that is 100% Private

    18d ago · hynote.ai

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    Supavoice206

    Voice to text app for macos

    2025

  9. 9OS

    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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    Dictato93

    Local instant voice-to-text for every Mac

    Feb 2026 · dicta.to

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    FnKey104

    macOS dictation with Deepgram stream

    Mar 2026 · github.com

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    The open source alternative to Wispr Flow

    Mar 2026 · open-flow.netlify.app

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    Lispr240

    Hold a key, speak, and Lispr writes it anywhere

    Jul 2026 · lispr.ai

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    On-device instant voice transcription

    Feb 2026 · quassum.com

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    Spoke102

    Private voice-to-text for macOS. Hold a key, speak, done.

    Mar 2026 · usespoke.app

  16. 16PF

    Sep 2025 · github.com

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    Walkie228

    Free local AI voice dictation tool

    Apr 2026 · trywalkie.com

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    Speech to Text dictation for your Mac at $30 for lifetime

    Mar 2026 · suprflow.app

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    Free, open-source voice dictation and AI assistant, offline

    Aug 2026 · speakoflow.com

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    Private voice typing for Mac that works anywhere

    Apr 2026 · speakmac.app

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    Juno167

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

    Jun 2026 · usejuno.co

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    Private speech-to-text on your Mac

    Apr 2026 · getharker.com

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    Speech to text with smarter transcription

    2024

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    High quality text transcription with OpenAI's whisper on Mac

    2023

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