Hi Product Hunt! I’m Max, founder of DevX Group and the maker of Parlin. The idea behind Parlin is simple: turning speech into useful text should happen on your own Mac, with your recordings and conversations staying under your control. Parlin brings three everyday workflows together: - Dictation: speak your emails, notes, or coding prompts. Choose how much cleanup you want, from keeping your wording to polishing or summarizing it. The direct version inserts text into the app you’re using. - Meetings: record your microphone and system audio, identify speakers, and turn the conversation into notes, decisions, and action items. - Recordings: drop in an audio or video file and export a transcript, subtitles, or a document. Speech recognition and built-in AI cleanup run locally. Once the models are downloaded, those workflows work offline. Parlin runs on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 14.6 or later. The direct version has a 7-day trial and a one-time purchase, with no subscription. I’d love to hear where speech tools still let you down. Is it dictation accuracy, useful meeting notes, privacy, or something else? Tell me what you try and what needs work.

Parlin

Private, on-device meeting notes and speech-to-text

Private, on-device meeting notes and speech-to-text