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CLUSTER TEXT-MACOS-SPEECH · 10 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-08-16

macOS speech transcription and synthesis apps

This cluster consists of macOS applications that convert spoken audio—whether dictated live or from audio files—into text, and in some cases also generate synthesized speech from that text. The cluster's dated history before the index start is too thin to read a shape from, with zero dated entries, so the cluster either predates the index or its members are undated. Traction leaders by activity signal are nockerl-voice (11 stars), VoxWeft (6 stars), and naxvoice (1 star).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

MAR 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 5OCT 2026: 3
MAR 2026OCT 2026

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 · 2 ai-built · 8 unlabelled

Operator · 8 hobby · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 10 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01VoxWeft6★24 dayslivehobbymacOS app that provides real-time speech-to-speech translation between languages entirely on-device, with streaming voice output.
  2. 02nockerl-voice11★1 molivemacOS speech-to-text app that transcribes spoken audio into written text in real time.
  3. 03naxvoice1★24 dayslivehobbymacOS app that transcribes a user's dictated speech into formatted text and reads selected text aloud from any application.
  4. 04Vemo0★3 days—hobbyMac app that transcribes Korean voice memos locally into readable transcripts with summaries, highlights, and keyword notes.
  5. 05kunpeng-voice0★5 dayslivemacOS voice cloning app that reads any text aloud in a user's voice after a ten-second recording, running fully locally.
  6. 06tree-voice-assistant0★23 days—hobbymacOS app that transcribes audio files and generates synthesized speech from the transcribed text.
  7. 07Clone-n-Speak0★15 days—hobbymacOS app that clones a voice and reads text aloud in 600+ languages, running entirely offline on Apple Silicon.
  8. 08lt-voice0★14 days—ai-builthobbymacOS voice layer that records and transcribes calls, routes phone voice notes to tasks, and reads replies aloud.
  9. 09blarb0★1 molivehobbymacOS app that transcribes microphone recordings and imported audio files into text on-device, then lets users review, search, and export transcripts.
  10. 10sttui3★4 mo—ai-builthobbyTerminal application that transcribes spoken audio into text in real time for scripting, writing, and other dictation tasks.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.