Dictation app
Starlight
by Starlight
A Mac app that lives in the notch and types what you say into any app with speech recognition on the Mac, plus optional AI answers and meeting notes.
- 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.
Key figures
Every figure about Starlight
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
- Starlight: AI cleanup2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Starlight: free plan2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Starlight: audio kept off servers2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Starlight: questions to AI2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Starlight: speech on device2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Starlight: types into apps2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Starlight: works offline2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
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