{
  "id": 10947016,
  "title": "Murmure: system-wide voice dictation for macOS that never leaves your Mac",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/murmure-system-wide-voice-dictation-for-macos-that-never-leaves-your",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-30T13:14:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/croustibat44/murmure-system-wide-voice-dictation-for-macos-that-never-leaves-your-mac-2ale"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "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:…",
  "key_points": [
    "Murmure is a macOS voice dictation app with local processing",
    "Uses Whisper's large-v3-turbo model for transcription",
    "No subscription, no data sent, MIT licensed source code available"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}