MacParakeet

Check local dictation on your Mac

Dictate a short passage, review the text and confirm which processing stays local when optional cleanup is enabled.

What it’s useful for

MacParakeet turns speech into text locally on an Apple Silicon Mac, keeps transcripts for review and can record meetings. Optional AI cleanup is a separate decision: the configured provider may be local or remote.

Inside the product

• System-wide dictation, file transcription and meeting recording on Apple Silicon Macs.
• Speech recognition runs locally; optional AI cleanup and text transforms use a separately configured provider.
• A local transcript library and configurable vocabulary support review and reuse.

Good to know

• Apple Silicon and macOS 14.2 or later are the documented platform prerequisites.
• Cloud cleanup can send transcript text to the selected provider; local recognition does not mean every optional feature stays on-device.
• The homepage and repository show different release status. We avoid a precise latest-version claim and exclude development-only features.

The maker’s build notes

The original maker post links the product and repository, describing Claude Code implementation and Codex planning/review. The repository distinguishes the stable download from development features, so this page avoids a latest-version claim or a transcription-accuracy ranking.

A few more details

Sources & maker notes

Build details come from the maker’s linked account. vibeforthat has not independently audited the code or tested every product function.

• MacParakeet — original maker development account
• MacParakeet repository and release gates
• MacParakeet product site