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@heynaavi heynaavi released this 30 Jul 17:57
v0.1.0
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Local speech to text for macOS. Dictate anywhere with the globe key, record from
the microphone, or drop in an audio or video file and read the transcript back.

The speech models ship inside the app — nothing is downloaded on first run,
there is no account, and it works with the network off.

Install

  1. Open the DMG and drag VoiceDumps to Applications.
  2. Open it. macOS will refuse, saying it cannot verify the developer — the app
    is signed, but not with a paid Apple Developer certificate.
  3. System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, Open Anyway.

Then two permissions:

  • Microphone — prompted the first time you record.
  • Accessibility — System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility.
    Required for the globe key: watching for a modifier key means installing an
    event tap, and macOS never grants that automatically.

Because the signature is ad-hoc, each new release is a different app as far as
macOS is concerned, so Accessibility has to be granted again after an update.

Apple Silicon only. Intel Macs need a rebuild from source.

In this release

  • Globe-key dictation, with a floating level indicator
  • Microphone recording, drag-and-drop files (mp3, m4a, wav, flac, ogg, mp4, mov)
  • A reader with word-level playback follow-along and inline editing
  • Export to PDF (typeset, not a screenshot), Markdown, or plain text
  • Full-text search, light and dark themes, menu-bar background operation
  • Picks the medium model (514 MB) on Macs with 16 GB or more, small
    (181 MB) below that. Override with VOICEDUMPS_MODEL_SIZE=small|medium.

Verify the download

shasum -a 256 VoiceDumps_0.1.0_aarch64.dmg
2869123c7c45507f884d48de96a8b6fc440f177576382f1d99ec6f06ebbc0914

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