Best Dictation for Mac

Dictating Text is about 3 to 4 times faster than typing, so it really makes sense to give it a shot if you haven’t tried it already.

If you happen to have any one of the recent Mac Models with M-Chip (even M1), they contain a really powerful neural engine, that enables them to be unusually good at running powerful transcription models locally, there’s really no need to use cloud services.

I tried a lot of different dictation tools over the last couple months. E.g., Whisperflow, Mac Whisper, and now Snaply.ai, and I have settled on Snaply.ai as the best one. (no affiliation)

Winning points:

• it’s completely free for individuals, no featured paywall gated
• runs on your own mac (works offline)
• clean speaker separation when transcribing meetings, and does so without joining your calls
• european company (founded in zurich, founder is from Trieste, Italy)

Caveats:

• whisperflow does do more accurate transcription, but Snaply.ai does it well enough for the difference to be too small to matter.