andrew dictate

escape the keyboard.

local speech-to-text and voice commands for macOS. free, open source, runs entirely on your mac.

unsigned build — first launch needs right-click → open, orxattr -dr com.apple.quarantine. apple silicon, macOS 14+.

dictation

hold fn, speak, release — text pastes wherever your cursor is, a few hundred milliseconds later. spoken punctuation, emails ("jass at jass dot gg" →jass@jass.gg), numbers, self-corrections and stumbles handled on-device. optional ai polish with apple's local model — judged in a built-in lab on your own speech before you trust it.

command mode

hold right ⌥ and say it:

“open arc” · “switch to slack” · “quit music”instant app control

“chatgpt search swift actors” · “youtube lofi”opens the site with your query

“what’s the tallest building in the world?”answers inline on the floating panel

“what’s this error?”screenshots the window, asks your agent cli, answers inline. press again for follow-ups

“brew install ripgrep”shows the exact command, runs in your terminal after one confirming tap

“standup” · “deploy staging” · any phrase you defineyour urls, scripts, macos shortcuts, snippets

answers can talk back — and you can interrupt them by just starting to talk. conversations you start by voice continue later in your terminal: they were your agent's sessions all along.

privacy

transcription is fully on-device. audio never leaves the mac.
no accounts, no telemetry, no network code except the model download.
questions go to the agent cli you configure, read-only enforced. no history stored — your agent keeps its own sessions.
shell commands always show before they run.
small swift codebase. read it.

typing is for brokies.