Speakmac turns your voice into text on your Mac—instantly, privately, and without draining your CPU. Fully offline. No subscriptions.
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Speakmac
Launched this week
Speakmac is private voice typing for Mac that works anywhere.
Dictate with live preview, hands-free mode, custom words, multilingual packs, and audio-file transcription. It runs locally, feels fast, and gives Mac users a one-time purchase instead of another subscription.
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Wispr Flow
Speakmac
Hands-free with live preview is the interesting part, since the preview path and the final decode usually have different latency profiles and correction overhead. How does the system behave on code switching utterances, if someone dictates English and drops a Greek or Chinese proper noun mid sentence, does the multilingual path transcribe both correctly or does it commit to one language at the session level?
Speakmac
@myultidev Very hard for the models to handle 2 languages in the same session.
It tries to infer which language in the first few seconds of the clip.
There is another smarter model that needs you to select which language you're going to speak in.
Survser
Nice, I'm actually looking for a solution like that. Whats not clear to me from the landing page is what model it uses? I started trying Superwhisper, which had me install a local Parakeet model. Does yours do something similar, or how does it work behind the scenes?
Speakmac
@pkundr Speakmac uses Parakeet too as default(for now). There is now a more accurate model to comparable speed that you can use daily. You can download this model as add an add-on. I have been finding it gets the last 10% of words that Parakeet usually misses.
How is works: Press a hotkey to record audio from mic -> once done, calls the on-device model to transcribe the full audio file at once(Realtime gets too unreliable) -> text gets pasted in
Offline dictation is underrated. For founders/operators, that matters. Half the value of voice is capturing messy thoughts before they get cleaned up too early.
Athena
Nice direction! voice is still one of the most underused “input layers” on desktop, especially when it actually works everywhere without breaking flow.