VocaHQ

Speech-to-text for Linux, macOS, Windows, iPhone, and Android. On-device first. Open source. No Voca account. No credit card.

[VocaHQ @VocaHQ]

Meet VocaMac 🎙️

Hold a key, speak, and your words appear wherever you type, in any app on your Mac.

Local speech models, no subscription, no required account. Free and open source.

🔗 https://t.co/Dl63VxNR3U

[VocaHQ @VocaHQ]

Special thanks to @sesav_ for his amazing contributions!

[VocaHQ @VocaHQ]

Vocalinux 0.18.6, mostly fixes from your bug reports:

- Ctrl no longer sticks after paste on Sway
- Quit from the GNOME dock quits
- no giant empty overlay on KDE
- Settings follows your layout live
- optional Bark 3.0 models for Parakeet (community PR)

https://t.co/LJhZJk5Unf

[VocaHQ @VocaHQ]

Needs an Apple Silicon Mac, VocaMac, and ffmpeg for Telegram/WhatsApp voice notes.

Plugin: https://t.co/H8vT9hgcKH
VocaMac: https://t.co/Dl63VxNR3U

Both open source (AGPL-3.0).

[VocaHQ @VocaHQ]

VocaMac now works as the speech-to-text engine for Hermes Agent by @NousResearch.

Send a voice note from Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord or the Hermes app, and it's transcribed on your Mac. The audio never goes to a cloud API.

[VocaHQ @VocaHQ]

Setup is two commands:

hermes plugins install VocaHQ/hermes-vocamac --enable

hermes config set stt.provider vocamac

It uses the model you've picked in VocaMac, so switching there switches Hermes too. The agent also gets a tool to transcribe audio and video files.

[VocaHQ @VocaHQ]

Join the beta (needs macOS 14+ on Apple silicon and the TestFlight app): https://t.co/WrRinQiJ8Y

Prefer Homebrew or the DMG? https://t.co/Dl63VxNR3U

[VocaHQ @VocaHQ]

Apple has had VocaMac in App Store review for a week, so we put the App Store build on TestFlight instead.

Hold Right Option, talk, and the text lands at your cursor in any app. Speech runs on your Mac. No account, nothing uploaded.

TestFlight link in the reply!

[Jatin K Malik @jatinkrmalik]

solved my own dictation problem on weekends across all platforms - @VocaHQ

the devs who could've vibe coded a replacement sent PRs instead, 500+ of them so far!

https://t.co/RFnkzvwHNW

[DaQuan @dqships]

@noahkagan I do you one better

@VocaHQ is free OSS, intelligent, and well supported

[VocaHQ @VocaHQ]

Try it today: https://t.co/Dl63VxNR3U 🫡

[Jatin K Malik @jatinkrmalik]

Wtf! I was randomly watching @TechWiser's latest YT video on lunch about Mac apps and saw they covered VoaMac.

What a validating experience as I have been building this in public since beginning of the year and we have been refining it bit by bit with the community @VocaHQ!

Try it today on your Mac: https://t.co/SxLGlfr7x0

[VocaHQ @VocaHQ]

What Linux releases are we missing? 👀

[VocaHQ @VocaHQ]

Vocalinux v0.18.1 is out! Install it your own way:

https://t.co/8cRSiK93Gm

[VocaHQ @VocaHQ]

https://t.co/GaJngwXdb2

We got some coverage! ;)

[VocaHQ @VocaHQ]

@akshatwts @code_kartik 🫡

[VocaHQ @VocaHQ]

VocaPhone is now on @fdroidorg 🎙️

https://t.co/NkUEet8il9

[VocaHQ @VocaHQ]

Thanks @claudeai! Time to build.💪

[VocaHQ @VocaHQ]

Thanks @AnthropicAI for letting us in the claude startups program can't wait to see what our team shipped.

Happy Building 🎉

[VocaHQ @VocaHQ]

@HdKamboj @priymrj @Soumava_221B We are totally free and open source and available on all the OS platform out there, even on Android and ios 🥹 So you don't miss out dictation even on your phone, Posting the photo of poor kitty so that you give us a chance. 😿

[VocaHQ @VocaHQ]

Apple Silicon, macOS 14+.

brew tap vocahq/vocamac && brew trust vocahq/vocamac && brew install --cask vocamac

⭐ https://t.co/YmrMjZZKxm

[VocaHQ @VocaHQ]

Meet VocaMac 🎙️

Hold a key, speak, and your words appear wherever you type, in any app on your Mac.

Local speech models, no subscription, no required account. Free and open source.

🔗 https://t.co/Dl63VxNR3U

[VocaHQ @VocaHQ]

3 - Plus a personal dictionary, searchable history with replay and retry, and local stats. Nothing is uploaded.