Hold fn and talk.
Let go. It's typed.

Free dictation that runs on your Mac. Your words land at the cursor in any app 0.21 s after you let go, and your voice never leaves your Mac.

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Free and open source · Apple silicon · macOS 26 or later

To:Sam
0.21 s after you let go

Hold the key to try it

Faster than the paid apps.

Time from letting go to text
Lip Service
0.21 s
Willow
0.37 s
Wispr Flow
0.39 s

Same accuracy. Just faster.

About 98% of words right in all three

Median of 75 dictations each, on one M4 Mac mini. Willow on Pro, Wispr Flow on its free plan. See the test and raw results

Works in any app you type in.

Or let your agent write it.

Two more keys hand your words to the AI agent you already use.

Works with Claude Code Codex Hermes OpenCode Any ACP agent

Your voice never leaves your Mac.

Your audio stays on your MacSpeech becomes text on your Mac's chip. Nothing is recorded to disk or sent anywhere.
Works offline, no accountOne model download on first launch, then dictation needs no internet.
Drafts are cut off from toolsClaude Code and Codex draft with their tools off, and any agent is stopped the moment it starts one.
Open source, MITOne anonymous count a day and an update check, both easy to turn off. Read every line on GitHub.

Install in a minute.

  1. 1

    Download the zip and drag Lip Service into Applications.

  2. 2

    Open it. macOS blocks it once, because it isn't notarized yet. Go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

  3. 3

    Allow the microphone and Accessibility, then hold fn and talk.

Or paste the install prompt into Claude Code or Codex, and it checks the app's signature before installing.

Lip Service

Free and local.

Download for Mac

Apple silicon · macOS 26 or later · View the code