Apple Dictation
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
6warn against
Dec 26, 2025first mention
Aug 28, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“macOS already has a dictation feature that does this exact thing, albeit in real time. I use it extensively.”
“Apple dictation on MacOS is actually pretty dang good.”
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“I use the baked in Apple transcription and haven't had any issues.”
Caveats and dissent
“which historically has been laughably bad”
“because Apple STT is so frustrating”
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“come close in terms of accuracy”
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Also written as macOS Dictation, macOS dictation. Data: apple-dictation.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 12
I just shipped this free app: https://github.com/scosman/Biscotti Private offline transcription and summary. Speaker identification, working on voice-prints for identification across the corpus.
“It does work and it's primarily what I use on mobile”
“which historically has been laughably bad”
“macOS already has a dictation feature that does this exact thing, albeit in real time. I use it extensively.”
“The only advantage I find to Apple's stt is less friction.”
“Apple dictation on MacOS is actually pretty dang good.”
“because Apple STT is so frustrating”
“apple's built in dictation is terrible”
“I use the baked in Apple transcription and haven't had any issues.”
“come close in terms of accuracy”
“existing macOS dictation doesn't support all languages”
My wife is going to work with a Spanish tutor remotely who lives in Costa Rica and then work with her in person when we get there. As far me, I learned a little in school decades ago so I knew basic grammar. DuoLingo gives me a guided learning path to explore. But I use ChatGPT to create drills like creating sentences using words and phrases “at an a2 level using present and past tense verbs” using whatever I need to