Sayburst
Private Mac dictation with recovery built in
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Private Mac dictation with recovery built in
2 followers
Sayburst runs Whisper and Parakeet locally on Apple Silicon Macs. Hold fn to dictate into your apps, add custom vocabulary and text replacements, and recover transcripts from local history when insertion is interrupted. Seven-day trial with no card or account. Pay once: $29 for one Mac or $49 for three, including 1.x updates. macOS 14+. Optional cloud writing can send text and enabled context to your chosen provider.
Sayburst 1.1: an AI writer that never leaves your Mac
Sayburst 1.1 is out. The big one is Sayburst Writer: a small AI model (Qwen3 4B) that runs on your Mac and turns what you said into what you meant.
• Say "Tuesday at 3… actually, no, Wednesday" and only "Wednesday at 3" is typed
• Rambling emails come out laid out; spoken lists come out as bullets
• It keeps your language and never sends your words anywhere. No account, no API key, works offline.
Also new:
• Dictate with your mouse: hold the middle or a side button to talk
• A recorder that grows out of the notch on MacBooks
• A dictionary that learns the names you fix by hand
• Auto-send in chat apps, a Skip button while polishing, and stats on words written and time saved
Still $29 once, free for 7 days: https://sayburst.com