Overview
Voice Vise is a menu-bar utility for quick dictation and longer voice notes. It inserts transcripts into the active app or stores them alongside the original recording.
Capabilities
- System-wide dictation with automatic text insertion
- Audio notes with searchable local history
- Apple Speech or local Whisper transcription
- Apple Intelligence, local GGUF, or no transcript cleanup
Capture pipeline
Audio capture
Apple Speech / Whisper
Optional local cleanup
Insert / Save
Implementation
- Interface
- Flutter with native Swift integration
- Transcription
- Apple Speech or local Whisper
- Cleanup
- Apple Intelligence, local GGUF, or disabled
- Storage
- SQLite and Application Support
Local data
No account system, telemetry, or hosted inference service. Recordings, transcripts, and capture history remain on the Mac.
Shortcuts
Dictation ⌃ ⌥ Space
Voice note ⌃ ⌥ N