voice2text

Voice-as-an-Interface, done simply.

• Hold a key, talk, let go: the text is pasted where your cursor is.
• Everything runs on your Mac: Parakeet transcribes and a small local LLM tidies the punctuation, both on MLX.
• No account, no daemon, no network once the models are cached, so a corporate VPN or proxy never gets in the way.

Speech-to-text as boring technology: just another peripheral.

Docs: v2t.luischav.es

uv tool install voice2text
v2t

Hold Fn, say something, let go. The optional menu-bar app adds its own permissions, a state icon and a floating pill while you dictate:

brew trust --tap lucharo/voice2text && brew trust --cask lucharo/voice2text/voice2text
brew tap lucharo/voice2text https://github.com/lucharo/voice2text.git
brew install --cask voice2text

Docs

• Getting started: install, permissions, the menu app
• How it works: what happens while you hold the key
• Guide: files, cleanup modes, history, dictionary
• Reference: every command and config key
• FAQ

Contributing

uv sync, then just check. See the maintainer docs.

This started as a single voice2text.py under 300 lines, preserved at the nano tag.