Caps Lock to talk, a live transcript while I speak, clean text pasted where the cursor is. Everything runs on my Mac Studio. Built with Claude Code in 22 prompts.

Free, open-source, local voice dictation for Mac, Windows and Linux: hold Option, speak, release, and the text appears where the cursor is. Rust, MIT, by the team behind OpenCode.

Free, open-source, on-device voice-to-text for macOS, and now Windows in beta, with a choice of local models (Parakeet, Whisper, Apple Speech). A Wispr Flow alternative.

Superwhisper is an AI-powered voice dictation app that turns speech into polished text across any app. It supports offline transcription, 100+ languages, customizable AI modes, and integrates with coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code.

Comprehensive overview of voice dictation solutions available on macOS, covering built-in features and third-party AI tools (cloud and on-device), with comparison across privacy, latency, formatting intelligence, and workflow integration.