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Inktyper

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Hold-to-talk voice typing for Mac — on-device & private

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Hold-to-talk voice typing for Mac — on-device & private

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InkTyper is hold-to-talk voice typing for Mac: hold Option, speak, release, and text appears at your cursor. SenseVoice runs on-device (free, offline, private). Bring your own OpenAI Whisper or SiliconFlow key for cloud accuracy, no subscription. Strong on mixed Chinese-English. One-time Pro + optional AI Plus. Free to start, macOS 14.6+.

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Two things worth flagging. First, InkTyper is direct-only — no Mac App Store. That's deliberate: no 30% platform tax, no sandbox crippling the experience, and faster iteration without app-review gates. For a power-user dictation tool, staying outside the walled garden is the product, not a limitation — full-strength hotkeys, on-device MLX streaming, and deep integrations all ship uncut. Second, on execution: I'm one person augmented by AI tooling (Claude Code, Cursor), shipping a production native macOS app with on-device ML and multi-provider cloud integration solo. If the thesis holds, the same lean model scales the roadmap far beyond what a solo founder could traditionally build.

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4d ago

hold option, talk, release, text just shows up where my cursor is, basically exactly what i wanted for dictating replies on mac. mixed chinese and english came through clean too which is honestly kind of rare

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7h ago

The hold to talk shortcut feels really natural and the on-device SenseVoice is surprisingly snappy for a free option. Mixing in Chinese-English terms actually works better than other dictation tools I've tried on Mac.

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5m ago