CLUSTER MACOS-SPEECH-TEXT · 23 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-08-12
Local macOS dictation apps
These products are macOS dictation apps that transcribe speech locally on-device, typically inserting text at the cursor or copying to clipboard when a hotkey is held. The cluster's dated history before the index is too thin to read a shape from (only 0 dated entries), so it predates the index or its members are undated. Among members with activity signals, jot-gemini-transcribe-macOS leads with 483 stars, followed by typevoice (12) and steno (11).
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 3 unlabelled
Operator · 3 hobby
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 3 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21speak-ez2★1 mo—hobbyFully local dictation app for macOS that transcribes speech into text at the cursor while a key is held.
- 22knockkey0★1 mo—hobbyMac app that turns a three- or four-finger trackpad tap into a configurable keystroke so voice-input users can trigger dictation without moving their hands.
- 23sayo0★1 mo—hobbymacOS dictation app that transcribes speech locally using Whisper with a hotkey.
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