Show HN: Wispr Flow but free, 100% on-device, and open source (macOS)

Category: cli-tool

Tags: dictation, macos, whisper, on-device, voice-input

Score: 6.3/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 7, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

Parrot is an open-source, on-device dictation daemon for macOS that transcribes speech to text at the cursor with a simple push-to-talk interface. It uses WhisperKit and CoreML for fast, private transcription on Apple Silicon, offering a minimal but polished alternative to cloud-based dictation tools.

Target audience: backend devs, frontend devs, devops, data engineers

Repository: https://digimata.github.io/parrot/ · Swift

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