Wave Dictation

Wave is a lightweight, native macOS dictation app focused on fast voice-to-text workflows with minimal UI overhead. Press a shortcut, speak, and your words are instantly pasted at the cursor. Supports on-device transcription via Whisper and cloud transcription via Groq, plus an AI Mode that sends your voice to an LLM and pastes the response directly.

Features:

• Dictation — global shortcut triggers recording; transcription is pasted at the active cursor
• Push to Talk or Toggle — hold to record and release, or press once to start and again to stop
• Local transcription — on-device Whisper inference, no internet required
• Groq cloud transcription — faster cloud-based transcription via the Groq API
• AI Mode — separate shortcut sends your voice to an LLM and pastes a direct answer
• Snippets — save reusable text snippets; AI Mode is aware of them
• Dictation history — recent transcriptions with right-click copy
• Language selection — auto-detect or set a specific language (ISO 639-1)
• Custom vocabulary — bias the model toward specific words and names
• Microphone selection — choose any input device or use the system default