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Say the Word
Free, open-source dictation that stays on your Mac
Hold a key, speak, and paste your words where you’re typing. Say the Word is free, open-source dictation for Apple Silicon Macs. Speech recognition runs locally, with no account, subscription or telemetry. Use hands-free mode, recover missed pastes, and optionally tidy text with a local Ollama model. Works offline after a one-time model download. Requires macOS 14+.
Hi Product Hunt! I’m Ravinder, the maker of Say the Word.
The goal is simple: hold a key, speak, and get text into the app you’re using, with speech recognition running on your own Mac. It’s free and MIT-licensed, with no account, subscription or telemetry.
This first release includes hold-to-talk and hands-free dictation, copy and paste recovery, optional history, and a Privacy page showing what the app stores and contacts. An optional local Ollama model can tidy hesitations and repeated words. Checks flag common unwanted edits, and you can compare the original transcript with the cleaned text.
A few practical details: you’ll need an Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 14+, Microphone and Accessibility permissions, and a one-time speech-model download of about 670 MB. After that, core dictation works offline. Ollama is optional. Updates currently use a manual download.
This is an early release. I’d especially appreciate feedback on recognition with different voices, pasting into the apps you use, and the first-run experience. If something goes wrong, please tell me which Mac and app you’re using—there’s no need to share private dictation text.
The signed, notarized download and source code are on GitHub: https://github.com/yravinderkuma...
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About Say the Word on Product Hunt
“Free, open-source dictation that stays on your Mac”
Say the Word was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #159 on the daily leaderboard. Hold a key, speak, and paste your words where you’re typing. Say the Word is free, open-source dictation for Apple Silicon Macs. Speech recognition runs locally, with no account, subscription or telemetry. Use hands-free mode, recover missed pastes, and optionally tidy text with a local Ollama model. Works offline after a one-time model download. Requires macOS 14+.
Say the Word was featured in Productivity (663.5k followers), Open Source (69k followers), Artificial Intelligence (481.6k followers) and GitHub (41.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 350.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Say the Word?
Say the Word was hunted by Ravinder Kumar. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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