Open Source & Free

Voice to text,
right on your Mac.

Press Option+Space, speak, and your words appear at the cursor — in any app. Completely offline. No cloud. No subscriptions.

macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · MIT License


Everything runs on your machine.

100% Local

Runs on Apple Silicon's Neural Engine. No cloud, no API keys, no subscriptions.

Two Speech Engines

NVIDIA Parakeet (~190ms, 25 languages) or WhisperKit (100+ languages). Your choice.

Works Everywhere

Text appears at the cursor in whatever app is focused. Browsers, editors, Slack, email.

Live Preview

See partial transcription as you speak. Silence detection stops recording automatically.

Voice Commands

Say "new line", "select all", "delete that". Punctuation too.

Open Source

MIT licensed. Read every line. Build from source. No telemetry, no tracking.

Three steps. That's it.

1

Press the hotkey

Hit Option+Space from any app. Customizable.

2

Speak naturally

A floating indicator shows live transcription as you go.

3

Text appears

Your words are typed at the cursor. Stop talking or press the hotkey again.

Your voice stays on your Mac

Built for people who care about privacy.

No accounts, no login, no sign-up
No telemetry, no analytics, no tracking
No network calls after model download
Open source — read every line

Ready to dictate?

Download OpenDictator and start speaking. Free, forever.

Download for macOS