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Plainsay is a free, open-source menu-bar dictation app for Apple silicon Macs. Whisper or Parakeet runs on your Mac; text is pasted where you started speaking, or left on the clipboard if that's not safe. ~12 MB, no account, no telemetry.
Hi PH! I built Plainsay because I dictate a lot (in Polish and English) and wanted something that runs entirely on my Mac. You hold a key, speak, release, and the text lands in the window you started in. If Plainsay can't confirm that window is still active, it leaves the text on the clipboard instead of pasting it somewhere random.
Speech recognition is local (Whisper or NVIDIA Parakeet), so in Local mode no audio leaves your Mac. No account, no telemetry, MIT-licensed. There's an optional paid cloud mode for cleanup/translation, but the local app is complete on its own.
It's macOS 14+ on Apple silicon. I'd love feedback, especially on languages other than English and on long dictations. Code: https://github.com/conrader/plai...
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About Plainsay on Product Hunt
“Local dictation for Mac”
Plainsay was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #160 on the daily leaderboard. Plainsay is a free, open-source menu-bar dictation app for Apple silicon Macs. Whisper or Parakeet runs on your Mac; text is pasted where you started speaking, or left on the clipboard if that's not safe. ~12 MB, no account, no telemetry.
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