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Lowspeak
AI speech-to-text in every Mac app, online or offline
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AI speech-to-text in every Mac app, online or offline
1 follower
Hold fn, talk, let go: your words appear wherever the cursor is, in any Mac app. Online with Groq (free on its free plan) or OpenAI, offline with Whisper and NVIDIA Parakeet on your Mac. 100% Rust on native AppKit: 17 MB, about 45 MB of memory, text about 0.4 s after you let go. Vocabulary, cleanup, per-app formatting, hands-free mode, 35 languages. Open source, no account, no telemetry.
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Hi Product Hunt! I'm Sven, and I built Lowspeak so I could talk instead of type in any app on my Mac.
How it works: hold fn, talk, let go. The text appears where your cursor is: in Mail, Slack, your editor or the terminal.
What makes it different:
• Online and offline: Groq or OpenAI with your own key, or Whisper and NVIDIA Parakeet entirely on your Mac. If the network drops, a local model takes over the same recording.
• Free and fast online: on Groq's free plan, transcription costs nothing within its daily limits. Lowspeak opens the connection while you are still speaking, so the text is there about 0.4 seconds after you let go.
• Ultrafast and small: 100% Rust on native AppKit, no Electron. 17 MB on disk, about 45 MB of memory online.
• More than dictation: a vocabulary for names and terms, optional cleanup of filler words and grammar, formatting for the app you dictate into, a hands-free mode for up to five minutes, your last ten dictations in the menu, 35 languages.
• Open source: MIT or Apache-2.0, no account, no telemetry.
It runs on macOS 14 or later, on Apple Silicon and Intel. With Homebrew: brew install --cask sventmueller/tap/lowspeak
Where does dictation still let you down: accents, technical terms, a language that comes out wrong? I'd love to hear it.