Dictation app
Natter
by Natter
A Mac menu bar dictation app for people who dictate code and commands, which transcribes locally with Parakeet, cleans up the text and types it into the active app.
- Mac
Speech engine it runs
- NVIDIA Parakeet by NVIDIAParakeet TDT v3, English: 4.48%Parakeet TDT v3, No noise: 4.44%Parakeet TDT v3, 20 dB: 4.44%Parakeet TDT v3, 10 dB: 4.48%Parakeet TDT v3, 5 dB: 7.85%Parakeet TDT v3, 0 dB: 44.47%
Word error rates from our own tests on public recordings: English in a quiet room and with background talk. Lower is better.
Every figure about Natter
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
- Natter: types into focused field2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Natter: audio stays on the Mac2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Natter: custom dictionary2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Natter: local AI rewrite mode2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Natter: no text leaves the Mac2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Natter: nothing leaves the Mac2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Natter: transcribes speech locally2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Natter: spoken casing commands2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
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