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Fast, local voice app for Mac — system-wide dictation, file & YouTube transcription, and meeting recording. Powered by Parakeet TDT on Apple Silicon. Free and open-source.

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MacParakeet – Local voice dictation and transcription for Mac (GPL-3.0)

Name: MacParakeet – Local voice dictation and transcription for Mac (GPL-3.0)
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Author: moona3k

by moona3k·Mar 26, 2026·1 point·0 comments

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AI Analysis

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155x realtime transcription on Neural Engine beats Wispr Flow at zero cost.

Strengths

•Parakeet TDT on Apple Neural Engine delivers genuine local-first performance with no accounts
•155x realtime speed with ~2.5% WER is competitive with paid transcription services
•Speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, and eight export formats including SRT and DOCX

Weaknesses

•Apple Silicon only excludes Intel Mac users and Windows/Linux entirely
•English and European languages only, no Asian language support unlike competitors

Post Description

i mainly focused on just the things i need: - wisprflow-like UIUX for dictation - youtube transcription & export

(it runs on parakeet so only english + european languages are supported)

i'm sure there are many other apps already with much wider features (handy is a great example!), but in the spirit of mario (pi creator), "there are many voice transcription apps, but this one is mine."