Aloud
A Mac menu-bar reader that speaks any text with the current word highlighted
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Voice typing is the one small Mac utility people quietly pay a monthly fee for, and this does it on-device with nine models and no account.
Hold option-space, talk, let go, and the text is typed into whatever app you were in. Nine recognition models ship with it, including Parakeet TDT v3 across twenty-five European languages and Whisper Large v3 Turbo; each downloads once and then runs offline, with no cloud fallback hiding behind it. Cleanup can go through Apple Intelligence or a local Ollama model. It needs macOS 14 or later, prefers Apple Silicon, and updates install only after signature verification. Apache-2.0. The limits are stated: secure fields fall back to the clipboard, and cleanup and voice commands are English-only.
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