Dictation app
HoldSpeak
by karolswdev · in beta
A voice typing and meeting transcription tool for macOS and Linux that types what you say into any app and records meetings, with Whisper running on your own machine.
- Mac
- Linux
Speech engines it runs
- MLX Whisper by Apple MLX team
- faster-whisper by SYSTRAN
Every figure about HoldSpeak
Each figure is a row of a research dataset. Open it for the exact words of its source or the exact request it was read from.
Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI
- HoldSpeak: no subscription2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- HoldSpeak: no maker cloud2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
- HoldSpeak: AI rewriting2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- HoldSpeak: local transcription2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- HoldSpeak: third-party endpoint2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- HoldSpeak: types into any app2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- HoldSpeak: all local2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
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