# Voz

> Free, open source dictation for Mac that runs offline

- Page: https://www.whatwemade.app/p/voz
- What it is: Desktop app (also CLI and MCP server), for productivity, also engineering
- Made by: [Joël](https://www.whatwemade.app/u/joel)
- Run it yourself: get the code and run your own copy
- Website: https://voz.tools
- Code: https://github.com/Joelheile/voz (MIT, 33 stars)
- Wants contributors
- Tags: dictation, speech-to-text, offline, macos, privacy
- Upvotes: 0, comments: 0

## About

Voz is a free, open source dictation app for Mac. Tap right Command, say what you mean, and clean text appears at your cursor in any app. Speech to text runs on your Mac with NVIDIA's Parakeet model, and Apple's on-device model cleans up the text, so it works offline. It lives in the menu bar and keeps your transcript history on your Mac.

A small core records, transcribes, cleans up and types. Everything else is a TypeScript extension in ~/.voz/extensions, which you can write yourself, have a coding agent write, or install from npm. Extensions run with your permissions, so install only ones you trust.

Voz is for people who want dictation without a subscription or account, and who want to customise it with code. It has a terminal interface and an MCP server, so coding agents such as Claude Code can dictate, search history or manage extensions. It requires macOS 26 on Apple Silicon.

## How it was made

- Claude Code, 80% of the work
- Codex, 20% of the work
- Stack: Swift

Shared on WhatWeMade: https://www.whatwemade.app/p/voz