Hey Product Hunt! I built Vocs because typing had become the slowest step between a thought and the AI tools I use all day.

Vocs lives in your menu bar. Press ⌥Space anywhere, talk, press it again, and the text is pasted where you were typing. Your clipboard is put back afterwards.

A few details I'm proud of:

• It transcribes while you speak, so long dictations finish as fast as short ones

• Escape gives you a 3-second countdown to cancel, and a second Escape takes the cancel back

• It mutes your speakers while you dictate, so people on a call don't end up in your text

• Every dictation is kept in a local, searchable notebook

It's free, MIT-licensed, and nothing you say leaves your Mac. I'd love to hear what you'd dictate with it, and where it falls short.