VoiceInput

A macOS menu-bar application that converts speech to text in real time using Apple's built-in Speech Recognition framework. Press a hotkey, speak, and the transcribed text is injected directly into the currently focused text field.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3228f78a-f035-447d-98ef-8826798a122c

Requirements

• macOS 14.0 (Sonoma) or later
• Xcode Command Line Tools (for swift build)

Build & Run

make build   # build the .app bundle
make run     # build and launch
make install # copy to /Applications
make clean   # remove build artifacts

Source Code

The full source code lives at https://github.com/yetone/voice-input-src.

Reproducibility guarantee: the source repository contains every file needed to produce exactly this distributed artifact. You can clone it and run make build to obtain an identical VoiceInput.app bundle. The build process is recorded and publicly verifiable — see the asciinema session below.

Build Recording

A complete, unedited terminal recording of the build from source is available here:

This recording demonstrates that the source code at https://github.com/yetone/voice-input-src can and does build this exact artifact without modification.

License

See the source repository for license details.