TapTalk

What it does

TapTalk turns speech into text in any Mac app. Hold a key, talk, release, and the words are pasted where your cursor is. Runs 100 percent on-device on the Neural Engine, with an optional local AI rewrite. Free, open source, no account, no cloud.

Free, open-source Mac dictation that runs 100 percent on-device on the Neural Engine. Press a key, speak, paste. No account, no subscription, no cloud.

TapTalk turns speech into text in any Mac app. Hold a key, speak, release, and it is pasted where your cursor is. It runs entirely on your Mac's Neural Engine. No account, no subscription, no cloud. Built by one developer, in the open. It is not notarized by Apple yet, so on first launch use right-click then Open, or install with Homebrew, which handles it for you. See setup. Your speech flows into the pill. The plain key pastes it as you said it; the Smart key cleans it up on your Mac first. MIT licensed. No subscription, no trial, no paywall. Auditable and forkable on GitHub. Transcription runs on the Apple Neural Engine. Your audio never leaves your Mac. No account, no telemetry. An…from taptalk.dhruvvakharwala.dev

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