Dictator
The keyboard is a traitor. Death to the keyboard!
Free push-to-talk dictation for Mac
A benevolent dictator for your Mac. Push‑to‑talk voice transcription powered by Whisper AI. Every word processed locally. Nothing phones home.
Download for macOSv2.1.0 · Apple Silicon · Free
Runs on your Mac. Only your Mac.
Whisper AI processes everything locally. No servers, no API calls, no cloud. Your audio exists for the duration of a keystroke, then it's gone.
Push to talk, release to transcribe.
Hold your hotkey, speak naturally, let go. Text appears wherever your cursor is — emails, code editors, Slack, anything.
No account. No sign-up. No tracking.
Download, open, use. There is no login screen because there is nothing to log into. We don't know who you are and we'd like to keep it that way.
Works without internet.
Airplane mode, cabin in the woods, underground bunker — Dictator doesn't care. Every model runs on-device via Apple Silicon.