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Reed Dictation

Free, open-source dictation for Mac. Hold a shortcut, speak, release: clean text appears at your cursor, processed entirely on your Mac.

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  1.  Privacy focused

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  1.  Works Offline
  2.  Voice to Text
  3.  Sits in the menu bar
  4.  Voice dictation
  5.  Dictation
  6.  Apple Silicon support
  7.  Offline
  8.  Speech to text
  9.  Push to talk

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What is Reed Dictation?

Reed Dictation turns natural speech into clean text in any Mac app. Hold a shortcut (Control + Option by default), speak, and release: the text is written where your cursor is, in Mail, Slack, Notes, browsers and editors.

Speech recognition (Parakeet) and cleanup run entirely on your Mac. Filler words like "um" and "uh" are removed, a restarted phrase is collapsed to the version you meant, and sentences get punctuation and capitals. After a one-time model download, dictation works offline.

No account, no subscription, no analytics. Free and open source under the Apache License 2.0.

Requirements: Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer), macOS 14 or later. English only for now.

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