WhisperDictate

Press, talk, press again, and your words show up at your cursor.

Dictate a long prompt for an AI instead of typing it.

I mostly use it for prompts to AI tools and for notes. It all runs on your Mac with whisper.cpp, and the recording never leaves it.

The first time, it downloads a speech model from huggingface.co (148 MB). After that it works offline too. There are smaller and larger models in Settings.

Asks for microphone access the first time
Tells you what’s wrong if it can’t record

The app has a short tutorial for this. In the settings window, click Try it on the spoon’s page or press Command 5 ⌘ 5 for Tutorials.

Pairs well with

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