On-device speech
Canary 1B Flash or Cohere Transcribe runs locally through transcribe.cpp, so your audio never leaves the Mac.
- Canary 1B Flash
- Cohere Transcribe
diktafon
Local-only dictation for macOS.
Hold Option+Space, speak, release. Polished text is pasted into the frontmost app.
or brew install --cask infomiho/tap/diktafon
Cleanup on every take
S1-mini by Superwhisper removes fillers and false starts and fixes punctuation, numbers, dates, and emails. On supported Macs, Apple Intelligence can polish instead.
- S1-mini by Superwhisper
- Apple Intelligence
Split at silence
A pause is a clean cut, so you can dictate without stopping and still paste one block.
- Silero VAD
Local history
Every dictation stays on your Mac, searchable and grouped by day.
Unloads when idle
After five idle minutes, diktafon releases its models and gives memory back.
Built with Rust, GPUI, transcribe.cpp, and llama.cpp.