TongueType – Local, privacy-focused Whisper dictation for macOS

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Hi HN,I'm a longtime web dev, but this is my first macOS app. Feedback is very welcome <3I built TongueType because every dictation app I tried failed at least one of three things: it sent my audio to someone's cloud, it charged me monthly fee, or it felt clunky or enterprisy. The cloud thing kills it for anything sensitive. The subscription thing is insulting for what amounts to "Whisper + a hotkey."TongueType runs Whisper locally on Apple Silicon via CoreML. It's built to feel like a second keyboard: tap the hotkey, talk, let go, words appear. It sits in the menu bar (no dock icon, no buttons to click). I use it constantly for LLM prompts, code comments, emails, and DMs. It gets out of the

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Website: tonguetype.app