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Murmure: system-wide voice dictation for macOS that never leaves your Mac

The dictation tools I tried on my Mac fell into two camps. The built-in one punctuates poorly. The good ones are paid, and they send your voice to a remote service. I wanted something smaller: press a shortcut, talk, and have the text appear in whatever app I'm in. No account, no subscription, no API key, nothing leaving the machine. So I built Murmure. Version 1.1.0 is the first public release:…

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Murmure is a new system-wide voice dictation app for macOS that keeps all processing within the device. The app allows users to dictate text via a keyboard shortcut, and the transcription happens locally using Whisper's large-v3-turbo model. Murmure offers two modes: short press for toggling and hold for push-to-talk dictation. It has no subscription or account requirements and doesn't send user data anywhere.

The app includes a clipboard history of the last 10 dictations, which can be pasted with a single click. Murmure utilizes the macOS privacy permissions system, requiring Accessibility permission for its functionality. The software is MIT licensed, and the source code is available on GitHub.

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