{"repo":"0xbrando/dictate","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/0xbrando/dictate","clone":"git clone https://github.com/0xbrando/dictate.git","description":"Push-to-talk voice dictation for macOS. 100% local, free, open source. Apple Silicon MLX. No cloud, no subscription.","language":"Python","stars":17,"topics":["apple-silicon","dictation","local","macos","menu-bar","mlx","privacy","python","speech-to-text","voice-to-text"],"license":"MIT","category":"auth-billing-email","readme_excerpt":"Push-to-talk voice dictation that runs entirely on your Mac. No cloud. No API keys. No subscriptions. Hold a key → Speak → Release → Clean text appears wherever your cursor is. --- Why Dictate? - 65ms voice-to-text on Apple's Neural Engine — faster than a keystroke - Zero GPU RAM for STT — the Neural Engine has its own dedicated memory - 100% local — audio and text never leave your Mac - Free and open source — no subscriptions, no API keys, no accounts - LLM text cleanup — local model fixes grammar and punctuation automatically - 52+ languages — real-time translation between any supported pair Your M-series Mac has a 16-core Neural Engine doing nothing. Dictate puts it to work. Install That's it. Dictate launches in the background and appears in your menu bar. Close the terminal — it keeps running. For Qwen3-ASR support (52-language STT engine): This is still local-only. No API key is required; the extra installs the MLX Qwen3-ASR runtime. Homebrew source install is available for users who prefer Brew. It builds the Swift ANE helper and installs the Python app into a Homebrew-managed virtualenv: The cask/DMG path is still planned; pip install dictate-mlx remains the simplest install path. macOS will prompt for Accessibility and Microphone permissions on first run. Dictate downloads only the selected default models, then caches them in /.cache/huggingface/ . Other cleanup models are one-click downloads from the Quality menu. Install from source Requirements - macOS with Apple ","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/0xbrando","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/0xbrando/dictate/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}