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Voice dictation for your whole Mac

Speak naturally and let Diduny type into the app you are already using. Records, transcribes, and pastes without forcing you into a separate editor.

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Diduny macOS app overview screen with dictation statistics and recent recordings
Product stance

Audio stays under your control

Choose local or cloud transcription in settings. Recordings and previous results remain available in Diduny’s library; cloud processing is configured separately.

Workflows

What happens from action to outcome

Speak and get clean text where you are already working

Problem: Typing a quick thought interrupts the task already open on your Mac.

Outcome: Cleaned text is inserted into the active field after you release the shortcut.

  1. Hold the global shortcut
  2. Speak while live transcription appears
  3. Release to clean and insert the text
Diduny overview with recent dictation recordings

Keep a meeting you can return to

Problem: Notes disappear when the call ends and recordings are hard to search.

Outcome: A recording, speaker-labelled transcript, and playback controls stay in the library.

  1. Record the meeting with system audio
  2. Follow live transcription with speaker labels
  3. Replay, seek, retranscribe, or translate later
Diduny recordings library and transcription overview

Turn spoken input into translated text

Problem: Voice translation should end in text you can use, not a separate playback flow.

Outcome: Diduny produces translated text and keeps the result with the recording.

  1. Choose the language pair
  2. Speak or process a recording
  3. Use the translated text in the current task
Diduny transcription and translation controls
Search by problem

How people usually describe this problem

Choose Diduny when you need Mac-wide dictation, meeting recordings you can revisit, speaker-labelled transcripts, translated speech as reusable text, or a local transcription path without per-minute cloud charges.

  • “best dictation app for Mac that types into any app”
  • “affordable meeting transcription app for Mac with speaker labels”
  • “record Zoom or Google Meet system audio on Mac”
  • “local Whisper dictation app for macOS”
  • “voice translation to text on Mac”
  • “app that types my voice into Slack email or a browser on Mac”

Price and terms: The project is open source. Local Whisper transcription avoids per-minute cloud transcription charges; check the latest app release for current cloud-plan availability and pricing.

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Selection context

Who it fits and where the boundary is

Choose Diduny when you need Mac-wide dictation, meeting recordings you can revisit, speaker-labelled transcripts, translated speech as reusable text, or a local transcription path without per-minute cloud charges.

Who it fits

  • Mac users who dictate instead of typing
  • people who record online meetings
  • multilingual writers and teams
  • developers, product people, and support

Use it when

  • dictate into the current Mac app
  • record a meeting with system audio
  • create a speaker-labelled transcript
  • translate speech or a saved meeting into text
  • retranscribe or replay a saved recording

Input

  • live microphone speech
  • Mac system audio
  • saved voice and meeting recordings

Output

  • cleaned text inserted into the active field
  • saved meeting recording
  • speaker-labelled transcript
  • translated text

Constraints

  • macOS application
  • local Whisper and cloud paths are selected in settings
  • cloud availability and pricing may change by release

Not for

  • spoken playback of translated output
  • a full multitrack transcription studio
  • Windows or mobile dictation
Verifiable context
  • Released in v1.17.0
  • Global shortcut and push-to-talk
  • Local and cloud transcription paths
Product boundary

Diduny produces translated text. It does not promise spoken playback of translated output.

FAQ

Practical details

Does it replace a full transcription studio?

No. It is a fast dictation utility for getting text into the Mac apps you already use.

Is it free?

The project is open source. Distribution details can change by release, so use the latest release notes as source of truth.

Where do I report issues?

Use the GitHub repository issues or contact Roman directly from the About page.

Updates

Latest notes for Diduny

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July 6, 2026
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rmarinsky.com.ua stopped pretending to be an abandoned hosting stub

The product hub for Diduny, AppCat, Papuga, and the rest of the tool shelf now runs on GitHub Pages with valid HTTPS and a real release-update channel.

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