andrew dictate

ALPHA

escape the keyboard.

dictation for talking to your agents.

meeting transcripts your agents can read.

free. fast. local.

a mac app. it's alpha. the words and the formatting aren't always right, and they get better over time.

dictate.

hold fn, talk, let go. the text lands where your cursor is, in any app. double-tap fn to talk hands-free, and esc throws it away. a dictionary fixes a word it keeps mishearing. if your keyboard eats fn, pick another key in settings. english, or 25 languages.

meetings.

press record in the menu bar, or say yes when the app asks at the start of a call. it never starts by itself. your mic is you, and whatever the mac plays is them. press stop and you get one markdown file with the speakers split out, in english by default. point your agent at the folder. settings can run a script of yours after each meeting is saved.

install.

brew install --cask jassuwu/tap/andrew-dictate

apple silicon, macOS 26. i'm broke, so i didn't pay apple $99 to sign this. run this once:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Andrew Dictate.app" open "/Applications/Andrew Dictate.app"

there's no dock icon. it lives in the menu bar as the gold badge. setup asks which jobs you want: dictation (~460 mb), and meetings (~2.9 gb) if you tick it.

no brew? get the dmg from releases. when macOS refuses to open it, click open anyway in system settings › privacy & security.

update.

the menu says when there's a new version. if you installed with brew, a click on it updates the app. or:

brew upgrade --cask jassuwu/tap/andrew-dictate

to know, the app sends its version to dictate.jass.gg once a day, and nothing else. settings › general turns that off.

credits.

mit, so fork it if you want it different.