speech

October 13, 2026

• BetterWispr brings free local dictation to macOS

  BetterWispr launched on Hacker News on October 11 as a free Apache 2.0 macOS 14+ app with Option-Space dictation, local speech models and no required account.

  macOS 14+ minimum systemApache 2.0 licence3 local speech families named

  speechlocal-aiopen-sourcemacos