Overview

Mumble Dictation runs both speech recognition and AI cleanup on your Mac. Audio, transcripts, everything stays on your Mac and works offline. Dictate into any app, and AI cleanup turns raw speech into clean text. AI Actions go further: reformat what you said into bullets or a shorter version, translate into another language, or write your own instruction as a custom prompt. Voice actions let you open a site, run a search, or send a question to an AI chatbot by speaking. There is nothing to configure: download, grant mic access, and start dictating. Distributed as a direct download, not on the Mac App Store.

Pricing: Free (raw transcription, 60 min Pro usage) | Pro: $100 one-time, currently $50 early bird

Minimum macOS: 14.2 (Sonoma)

Architecture: Apple Silicon

Key Features

Speech recognition and AI cleanup both run on-device, works offline
AI cleanup: filler words removed, punctuation and casing fixed, auto-formats as numbered lists, paragraph breaks, and more
AI transform: reformat, translate, or run your own custom prompts
Voice actions: open a site, run a search, or ask an AI chatbot by voice
Dictionary: your names and terms come out right. Add them yourself, or Mumble adds them from context
BYOK: bring your own AI API keys (included with Pro)