EnviousWispr

What it does

Hold a hotkey, speak, release. Parakeet transcribes on your Mac by default, or WhisperKit auto-detects 99 languages. Then choose polish: Apple Intelligence on-device with a tuned AFM dual-mode router, local Ollama, or your own OpenAI or Gemini key. Your Words learns your fixes and keeps names, acronyms, and vocab packs intact. Median hotkey to paste is 1.51s with polish, 0.43s without. Cloud defaults are private: OpenAI store=false, Gemini logging off. Free, no account, Apple Silicon.

On-device voice-to-text for macOS. Speak naturally, get polished prose in seconds. Powered by Apple Silicon, free to download, your audio never leaves your Mac.

Free private AI dictation for macOS. The fastest free, private way to turn your voice into polished text on Mac. On-device, on Apple Silicon, your voice never leaves your device. Prefer the terminal? brew install --cask saurabhav88/tap/enviouswispr EnviousWispr is a free dictation app for macOS. Hold a keybind, speak, and your words land as clean, polished text in whatever app you're using. Transcription runs entirely on your Mac, so your audio never leaves your device. Optional AI polish can tidy the text on-device too, or through a cloud provider you choose. Hold a keybind, speak naturally, and watch polished text land where you're typing. PR descriptions, commit messages, code comments.…from enviouswispr.com

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