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Published by Hacker News · Show HN (50+ points) (T2 source). The original is at https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yap.

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Yap is an open-source macOS menu-bar app for on-device voice dictation, triggered by a hotkey that transcribes speech and pastes the result into the active field. It uses Apple's macOS 26 SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber APIs, ships no model, is written in 3,000 lines of native Swift, and is MIT licensed.

Free, local-only dictation tool exploiting new macOS 26 APIs. No model download, no cloud, no cost. Practical for any macOS user wanting voice input without Whisper-sized overhead.

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