digimata/parrot

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Parrot is an ultra-minimalist push-to-talk dictation daemon for macOS that transcribes speech entirely on-device using WhisperKit on the Apple Neural Engine. Holding the fn key records audio, and the transcript is typed directly at the cursor within a few hundred milliseconds.

Use cases

• dictate text anywhere on macOS with a push-to-talk key
• transcribe speech to text locally without cloud services
• insert voice-dictated text at the cursor in any app
• run a background dictation daemon that launches at login
• use whisper models on Apple Silicon for fast on-device transcription

When to choose

• you want private, fully on-device dictation on an Apple Silicon Mac
• you prefer a minimal hold-key interface with no buttons or accounts
• you need low-latency voice-to-text inserted directly into any text field

When to avoid

• you are on an Intel Mac or macOS 13 or earlier
• you need cloud-based transcription or multilingual support beyond what your chosen model offers
• you want a GUI-heavy dictation app with editing and formatting features

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speech-recognition cli speech-processing developer-tools cli dictation push-to-talk whisper on-device voice-to-text apple-silicon command-line macos

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