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VocaMac: native voice typing for macOS
VocaHQ, VocaHQ, 2026
Read the originalRead on October 25, 2026
- What it is
- The home page of VocaMac, a voice typing app for macOS 14 and later on Apple Silicon. It describes how speech is transcribed on the Mac, which speech models it offers, and what does and does not leave the machine.
- How much weight it carries
- The maker's own product page, read on 2026-10-25. Feature claims are the maker's own, but the app is open source under AGPL-3.0, so the source code can check them. The model list and release number (v1.2.0) on this page change with releases.
Facts taken from this source
- VocaMac's home page says its Apple Speech engine has roughly 30 locales, on macOS 26 and later.
“Model Engine Download Note ... Apple Speech Apple Speech Managed by macOS macOS 26+ system engine (SpeechAnalyzer). Roughly 30 locales.” (Home page, table: Additional engines and models available in v1.2.0)
- VocaMac's home page lists four languages for its Canary 180M Flash engine: English, Spanish, German and French.
“Model Engine Download Note ... Canary 180M Flash sherpa-onnx 207 MB CPU-only. English, Spanish, German, French.” (Home page, table: Additional engines and models available in v1.2.0)
- VocaMac's home page says you can add names and terms that matter to you, and that custom vocabulary is processed with the Whisper path.
“Add names and terms that matter to you. Custom vocabulary is processed with the Whisper path.” (Your vocabulary section)
- VocaMac's home page says its GigaAM v3 engine is for Russian, so it recognizes one language.
“Model Engine Download Note ... GigaAM v3 sherpa-onnx 225 MB CPU-only. Russian, with punctuation.” (Home page, table: Additional engines and models available in v1.2.0)
- VocaMac's home page describes its Moonshine v2 Base engine as English, so it recognizes one language.
“Model Engine Download Note ... Moonshine v2 Base sherpa-onnx 142 MB CPU-only. Low-RAM Macs, English.” (Home page, table: Additional engines and models available in v1.2.0)
- VocaMac's home page describes its Moonshine v2 Tiny engine as English, so it recognizes one language.
“Model Engine Download Note ... Moonshine v2 Tiny sherpa-onnx 44 MB CPU-only. Very low-RAM Macs, English.” (Home page, table: Additional engines and models available in v1.2.0)
- VocaMac's home page says it does not send dictation audio to a Voca cloud service.
“VocaMac does not send dictation audio to a Voca cloud service.” (Privacy section, What stays local)
- VocaMac's home page says its Parakeet 110M engine is English only, so it recognizes one language.
“Model Engine Download Note ... Parakeet 110M Parakeet 227 MB English only, smaller download and faster first load.” (Home page, table: Additional engines and models available in v1.2.0)
- VocaMac's home page says its Parakeet Ultra engine covers 25 European languages.
“Model Engine Download Note ... Parakeet Ultra Parakeet 632 MB Parakeet v3 post-trained for accuracy, at the same speed. 25 European languages.” (Home page, table: Additional engines and models available in v1.2.0)
- VocaMac's home page says its Parakeet Unified engine is English only, so it recognizes one language.
“Model Engine Download Note ... Parakeet Unified Parakeet 614 MB English only.” (Home page, table: Additional engines and models available in v1.2.0)
- VocaMac's home page says its Parakeet v2 engine is English only, so it recognizes one language.
“Model Engine Download Note ... Parakeet v2 Parakeet 464 MB Fastest engine. English only, highest recall.” (Home page, table: Additional engines and models available in v1.2.0)
- VocaMac's home page says its Parakeet v3 engine covers 25 European languages plus Japanese, which is 26 languages.
“Model Engine Download Note ... Parakeet v3 Parakeet 483 MB Fastest engine. 25 European languages + Japanese, auto-detected.” (Home page, table: Additional engines and models available in v1.2.0)
- VocaMac's home page says its Qwen3 ASR 0.6B engine covers 30 languages, including Hindi, Arabic and Thai.
“Model Engine Download Note ... Qwen3 ASR 0.6B sherpa-onnx 1 GB CPU-only. 30 languages, including Hindi, Arabic, and Thai.” (Home page, table: Additional engines and models available in v1.2.0)
- VocaMac's home page lists five languages for its SenseVoice engine: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Cantonese and English.
“Model Engine Download Note ... SenseVoice sherpa-onnx 241 MB CPU-only. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Cantonese, English.” (Home page, table: Additional engines and models available in v1.2.0)
- VocaMac's home page says that after a speech model is available, transcription can run without sending audio to a cloud service, and that the first model download may need an internet connection.
“After a model is available, transcription can run without sending audio to a cloud service. ... A first model download may need an internet connection.” (Choose your model section, and the Available now footer)