I built a local macOS dictation app using Nvidia Parakeet and MLX

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I built a voice dictation app for macOS mostly because I was tired of how awful Siri is and I didn't want to pay a subscription for cloud tools.The app uses NVIDIA's Parakeet v3 (TDT) as the primary engine. Inference is handled by the FluidAudio library. It's insanely fast on M-series chips. For Intel users, I added local Whisper support ranging from Tiny up to Large v3 Turbo (quantized to save space).The interesting part was the AI integration. I originally tried to pipeline the ASR output into Apple's Intelligence Foundation Model. It was a nightmare, because the content moderation filter blocked nearly every useful request.So I scrapped that and moved to SwiftMLX. Now it runs Qwen 3.0 (0.

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Website: www.sayline.app