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Notes on local speech recognition, macOS dictation, and building SpokenKey.

March 2026

Local vs. Cloud Dictation on Mac — What Actually Happens to Your Voice Data

Cloud dictation sends your audio to remote servers. Local dictation keeps it on your Mac. Here's what that means in practice.

March 2026

SpokenKey uses NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT instead of Whisper. Here's why — and how it works under the hood.