Dictation app
YapToText
by Ryleigh Newman
A free, open-source Mac dictation app that turns speech into text with Whisper running on your Mac and a cleanup model that tidies the result.
- Mac
Speech engine it runs
- Whisper by OpenAIWhisper large-v3-turbo, English: 3.92%Whisper large-v3-turbo, No noise: 3.78%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 20 dB: 4.2%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 10 dB: 5.51%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 5 dB: 13.92%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 0 dB: 66.09%
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 YapToText
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
- YapToText: AI rewrites text2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- YapToText: no audio on servers2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
- YapToText: custom words2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- YapToText: free plan2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- YapToText: voice editing2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- YapToText: speech on device2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- YapToText: no third-party AI2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
- YapToText: types into any app2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- YapToText: works offline2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
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