GUIDES Field notes
Field notes on offline dictation.How to check a privacy claim, dictate code, and evaluate local voice input for managed Macs.
Guides
Guide · Privacy
How to test an offline dictation claim
nettop, a connection monitor and a blocked network, used together. What each one proves, and what it can’t.
Read the guide 5 min
Guide · Developers
Voice-to-code that respects your machine
Case commands, spoken symbols and dictated prompts for AI coding tools, without your code’s audio leaving the room.
Read the guide 4 min
Evaluation · Enterprise
Local voice input for managed Macs
The free MIT-licensed software, and the optional deployment, terminology, maintenance and support services around it.
Evaluate Enterprise
VS Comparisons
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Competitor facts are checked against the vendor’s own documentation and carry the date we reviewed them. Where they do something better, we say so.
- The offline Wispr Flow alternative for MacWhere the audio goes, side by side, and how to switch.Reviewed Sept 26, 2026
- Wispr Flow privacy: where your voice actually goesCloud audio, model-improvement and storage controls, and Context Awareness.Reviewed Sept 26, 2026
- Wispr Flow not working? Check both sides of the connectionFreezes, “offline” errors and lost dictations: what to check first.Reviewed Sept 26, 2026
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Speech recognition and cleanup run on your Mac. No account, no telemetry, no update checks, no cloud speech.