01 — THE KEY
right ⌥start→right ⌥stop
A key you never use anyway
Right Option toggles recording by default, with a small overlay for state and level. Double-press to cancel. Any other hotkey works too.
Open-source macOS dictation
Speak. It goes where you type.
OpenTypeless is a small menu bar app. Press a key, talk, press it again. The words show up in whichever field has focus, in whichever app you're already in. Bring your own API key; nothing passes through a server of ours.
## Tue
- Shipped the notarization fix for the DMG
- Reviewed the hotkey PR, left two comments
- Today I'm on the paste fallback for Terminal, then the CJK spacing bug in the formatter if there's time.
Inserted via AccessibilityClipboard untouched
01 / How it works
Press once. Talk. Press again.
There is no window to manage. One key starts the recording, the same key ends it, and the transcript is typed into whatever you were looking at.
02 — INSERTION
Accessibility API→guarded paste
Typed, not pasted
Text goes in through the Accessibility API, so your clipboard is left alone. Apps that don't allow it — Terminal, cmux, a few others — get a paste that restores your clipboard afterwards.
03 — THE MODEL
OpenAI·Groq·Mistral·custom URL
Your key, your bill
Pick a provider and model in Settings; Groq's whisper-large-v3 is a good free-tier start. Point it at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint if you run your own.
02 / Targets
Browser, editor, Terminal, cmux.
It doesn't care which app is in front. Wherever the caret is blinking, that's where the words go.
ACTIVE TARGET
Whatever has focus gets the text.
A reply in Mail, a commit message in Xcode, a comment on a GitHub issue, a shell prompt. You don't switch anywhere and you don't paste anything.
SafariMailXcodeTerminalcmuxSlackanything with a text field
IF THE NETWORK DROPS
The recording is kept on disk and shows up under Pending. Retry it when you're back online, or delete it for good.
FORMATTING
Punctuation, paragraph breaks, and spacing between CJK and Latin text are tidied before insertion. Add names and jargon to a personal dictionary so they come out spelled right.
03 / Privacy
No server in the middle.
There's no account to make and no telemetry to opt out of. Audio goes straight from your Mac to the provider you picked, and only after you've read that provider's data-processing note and said yes. Switch providers or endpoints and it asks again.
KeychainYour API key lives in the macOS Data Protection Keychain, not in a plist.
Local onlyHistory and pending recordings stay on this Mac. Delete any or all of it from Settings.
Per-destination consentConsent is stored per provider and per custom endpoint, never as one blanket switch.
Readable sourceEvery network call is in the repo. Read it, build it yourself, or send a fix.
04 / Install
Talking in about a minute.
Open the DMG
Signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without any Gatekeeper workaround. Drag to Applications.
Paste an API key
First launch walks you through provider, model, and the data-processing consent. Then it asks for Microphone and Accessibility.
Press right ⌥ and talk
Press once to start, again to stop. The text is in your document before you've reached for the mouse.
Type the short things. Say the long ones.
One DMG, MIT licensed, no email required.