Tagara: hold a key, speak, and the text appears at the cursor

Описание и применение

Tagara позволяет быстро диктовать текст на macOS, удерживая правую клавишу ⌥, без сохранения аудио и без подключения к сети.

Задача

Fast spoken input is often quicker than typing, but existing dictation tools are cumbersome or cloud‑based.

Результат

Tagara provides a fast, privacy‑preserving dictation experience on Apple Silicon macOS, with low latency and no external data transmission.

Рабочий процесс

• Hold the right ⌥ key
• Speak the desired text
• Release the key
• Text is inserted at the cursor

Доказательства

Hold the right ⌥ key, talk, let go. The text is typed wherever your cursor is: the terminal, Slack, the browser, any text field.

Источник

A sentence becomes text about 0.2–0.4 s after you release the key.

Источник

Everything runs on your Mac. Transcription uses the open Parakeet model on Apple Silicon's Neural Engine. The audio is never saved or sent anywhere, and there's no account.

Источник

Free and open source (MIT). macOS 15+, Apple Silicon. It isn't signed with an Apple developer certificate yet, so macOS asks you to allow it once.

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