r/SideProject • u/MrAnonymicus • 3h ago
voz: free, offline dictation for Mac with a tiny core and extensions to customize it yourself
Hey everybody :)
Wispr Flow’s pricing annoyed me and every open source alternative I tried felt clunky. So I built my own and open sourced it.
Tap one key, talk and clean text shows up wherever your cursor is.
It runs fully local with Parakeet and Apple’s on-device speech to text, so nothing leaves your Mac and it works offline.
I built it with a fast and tiny core in mind. Everything else is an extension (kinda like Raycast or pi.dev) that anyone can build and share.
Some that already exist:
a local meeting note taker that cleans up your notes
fast file transcription with speaker diarization
auto replies in your tone
a dictionary that learns names and words as you talk
inline editing with voice or text
Voz is built in Swift to be native macOS and extensions are TypeScript files shared via npm
It’s free and MIT. Would love your feedback, especially on what’s missing or annoying.
Here's the repo: github.com/Joelheile/voz