tornikegomareli / Talkify
Lightning-fast, free, local first voice dictation for macOS with on-device transcription
Why this job: says: dictation; topics: text-to-speech, speech-recognition, speech-to-text, dictation, transcription
What it does
Everything is on-device: Apple's SpeechAnalyzer/SpeechTranscriber for recognition, AVSpeechSynthesizer for Read Aloud, Translation for translation, and FoundationModels for prompt shaping. That last one is a language model, and it is Apple's, running here: there is no key, no account, and no request. Talkify makes no network requests, stores no audio, and keeps no history beyond the local usage metrics you can see in Insights.
Get started
brew install --cask tornikegomareli/talkify/talkify You need: macOS 26 (Tahoe) on Apple Silicon
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 23 days ago
- Stars
- 594
- +9 this week
- Licence
- MIT
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- Mac
- From the latest release
- Latest version
- v1.0.0
- Released 23 days ago
- Built with
- Swift
- 97% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 7
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 83% closed
- 12 still open
- Pull requests
- 55 merged
- 3 waiting
- Releases
- 20
- 20 in the last year
- Contributing guide (opens in new tab)
- No security policy
- No code of conduct
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More: download files, languages, topics and project record
Languages
- Swift 97%
- Shell 2%
- Metal 1%
- Ruby <1%
Topics
- appkit
- apple-silicon
- dictation
- macos
- menubar-app
- metal
- notch
- speech-recognition
- speech-to-text
- swift
- swiftui
- text-to-speech
Project record
- JobSpeech and audio
- StatusListed
- Commits212
- Forks41
- Watching2
- Stars in 28 days+25
- CreatedAug 5, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 9, 2026