Hi Product Hunt, I’m Noam, the maker of Dictator.

Dictator. VOICE TO POWER.

An open-source, user-owned command layer for macOS.

COMPUTING IS CHANGING.

We are moving from seeing computers as tools we operate to seeing them as digital environments where we manage, delegate, start automated work, and take the reins when direct control is needed.

Voice is central to this shift. It lets us do what comes naturally: say what’s on our minds and what we want done, instead of executing every step by hand.

WHAT V.1 SHIPS WITH

Out of the box local AI dictation, launching applications and projects by voice, workspace management, and configurable commands.

• LOCAL AI DICTATION: Hold, speak, let go. Clean text lands wherever your cursor is: Claude, Terminal, Gmail, Slack. Filler out, punctuation in. It learns your names from your corrections.

• APPS AND PROJECTS: Name an app and it opens. Name a project and Claude Code starts in its folder with your request.

• WORKSPACES: Every app, tab and window where it belongs, on one Mac or all of them. Preview the layout before anything moves. Undo puts it all back.

• COMMANDS YOU CONFIGURE: Chain steps once and give them a phrase. It is matched exactly against your own lists, with no model guessing what you meant. Anything that sends waits for you.

YOUR MACHINE. YOUR DATA.

Whisper or Apple’s speech engine hears you. An Ollama model tidies up. No cloud service hears your voice.

These are first steps toward one interface for directing tasks, automating routines and delegating work without giving up direct control.

Free and open source · MIT · macOS 14+ · Apple silicon

Source code: https://github.com/noamlittvock/dictator

Launch film: https://youtu.be/6bjW9hXmDmo

I’d love to hear what you think and what you’d want to direct by voice.

HAPPY DICTATING.