Launched this week
Megaphone
Open-source Mac dictation App that's 100% on-device
92 followers
Open-source Mac dictation App that's 100% on-device
92 followers
Hold Fn, speak, and Megaphone types clean text into any Mac app. Apple’s SpeechAnalyzer transcribes as you talk, while on-device Foundation Models remove fillers, fix self-corrections, adapt to app context, and power inline voice commands. No account, API key, subscription, or server. Free, MIT-licensed, and native to Apple silicon Macs running macOS 26.
Megaphone
100% on-device is the part that sold me — no cloud round-trip for dictation means it should work fine offline and nothing leaves the machine, which is rare for this category. What's the on-device model you're running for transcription, and how's accuracy holding up against something like Whisper cloud on technical/code-heavy speech? Also curious if it's Swift/native or if you're wrapping something cross-platform under the hood.
Megaphone
@hi_i_am_mimo SpeechAnalyser API and Apple's on-device foundation model and 100% swift :)
since everything is local with no account or server, what happens to the private Dictionary if you use more than one Mac. does it stay per machine and you re-teach it your names and jargon on each one, or is there some sync path that doesn't involve a cloud account
Megaphone
@galdayan that's actually a really good suggestion, maybe we can do that wish JSONs
will ship later today
Edit: there's a new import and export dictionary button in v1.1.8 !
Free, open source, and fully on device is such a rare combo for dictation. Hold Fn and just talk is exactly the right interaction too. Does it type into anything, even a terminal prompt? Congrats on the launch!
Megaphone
@terminal_candy absolutely, especially a terminal prompt, I love it on my codex and claude code sessions
LottieFiles
Finally someone building on SpeechAnalyzer instead of another Whisper wrapper with a subscription attached. My one worry with the Foundation Models cleanup: does it ever rewrite stuff I actually meant, like product names or code? And can I dial the filler removal down when I want the raw transcript?
Megaphone
@reallynattu yessir you can :) there's a personal dictionary and I can even say stuff like grokodile and it's all really fast!
- written with megaphone
LottieFiles
@kuberwastaken Thats pretty cool. will check it out
Honest question: how is this different/better than Apple‘s own dictation feature in macOS?
Megaphone
@mrtoner great question!
the one apple uses for built in dictation is called DictationTranscriber and is much dated
SpeechAnalyser is very new
Megaphone also uses the inline AI to fix tones and has application context so in an email window, it types like an email, on a slack thread, it types like a slack message !
@kuberwastaken Ah, so maybe instead of hearing “Coach Dan” when I’m dictating, now Megaphone will make it “Coach Don”? I’ll give it a try!
Megaphone
@mrtoner hope so, let me know how you like it :)
Is there any equivalent to this that's possible on Windows?
Megaphone
@pentian sadly windows does not have an NPU so that's a hard one :(