macOS · Apple silicon · on device

Speak.
The words are
already there.

Dictation for macOS that never leaves your Mac.

Install Source

Notes

Listening Normal

⌘ ⇧ Space heldParakeet TDT

The app

A menu bar icon and one hotkey.

KyroVoice settings, Models pane: Parakeet v2 English active, Parakeet Ultra multilingual available to download.

Two models. English is on by default.

2.1%

v2 word error rate

450 MB

v2 download

Ultra languages

630 MB

Ultra download

Downloaded once, then it works offline.

The KyroVoice floating overlay: a small dark pill with a microphone icon and a red waveform.

The overlay while you hold the key.

How

Voice in, text at the cursor.

Hold the key

Press starts it, release ends it.

HotkeyManager

Capture

Microphone audio at 16 kHz.

AudioRecorder

Recognize

Parakeet TDT on the Neural Engine.

SpeechEngine

Shape

Rules clean it up for the app you are in.

TextProcessor

Inject

Pasted at the cursor, clipboard restored.

ClipboardInjector

Modes

It knows which app you are in.

Normal

Notes, Slack, browsers

um the build is green

The build is green

Email

Mail, Outlook

I've attached the 3 files

I have attached the three files

Code

VS Code, Xcode, iTerm

camel case user profile id

userProfileId

History

Your last 24 hours, then gone.

Kept24 hours. Older entries are deleted the moment the window opens.
StoredOne file on your Mac, readable only by you.
ClearedClear All, any time.
CopyGrab any line again without dictating it twice.

Privacy

Nothing is uploaded.

AudioHeld while you talk, then dropped. Never written to disk.
RecognitionOn the Neural Engine, in process. No account, no telemetry.
NetworkUsed once, for the model. After that you can dictate offline.

Install

Clone it and build.

$ git clone https://github.com/sanonrickny/KyroVoice.git
$ cd KyroVoice
$ ./setup_deps.sh   # once
$ make install

Hotkey⌘ ⇧ Space, held.
NeedsmacOS 14+, Apple silicon, Xcode 15+.
PermissionsMicrophone, Accessibility, Input Monitoring.