Vox
On-device AI dictation for Mac and Windows. Press, speak, paste — no cloud round-trip, no app account, no waiting.
Vox launched on June 8, 2026 with 27 votes, #764 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
Vox is voice typing that runs entirely on your Mac or Windows machine. Hold a hotkey, speak normally. Cleaned-up text lands on your clipboard, ready to paste. Whisper / Parakeet handle transcription. Superb and fast local Gemma 4 model cleans it up. No audio ever leaves your device, no account to create, no tracking in the app, and it keeps working on a plane. Free for personal use.
On-device AI dictation for Mac and Windows. No cloud round-trip, no app account, no waiting. Hold a key, speak, and the cleaned-up text lands on your clipboard ready to paste. Whisper or Parakeet for transcription, Apple Intelligence or Gemma 4 for cleanup. Everything runs on your device. Nothing to sign up for to use the app. Commercial licenses do require a billing email at Stripe. Audio, transcripts and crash reports never leave your machine. See our Privacy page for the full network picture. After the one-time model download on first run, Vox runs without internet. Verifiable with any network monitor. Stanford measured 153 WPM speaking vs 52 WPM typing. For one person typing ~3,000…from vox.rizenhq.com
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