Yap Dictation

Blazing-fast voice dictation for macOS that works anywhere you can type.

Press a shortcut, talk, press it again. Your words land in whatever text field you were using. No account, no API key, no audio leaving your machine.

What it does:

Yap lives in your menu bar and waits for a shortcut. Trigger it and a small window appears near the bottom of the screen with a live waveform and a running preview of what you have said so far. Press the shortcut again and the text gets pasted into the app you were already working in. Every transcript is saved locally, so you can go back and copy something again later.

The default shortcut is Cmd + Shift + D. You can rebind it, or set a single modifier key instead. Tapping right shift on its own works nicely if you have a spare thumb.

Features:

• On-device transcription through Apple's Speech framework
• Global shortcut, fully rebindable, with optional single-modifier triggers like right shift
• Pastes straight into the focused field of whatever app you were in
• Local transcript history with search, copy, and delete
• Live waveform and partial transcript while you speak
• Press escape twice to discard a dictation in progress
• Follows your system default microphone, including when it changes mid-session
• Optional launch at login, off by default
• No account, no network calls, no telemetry