Building a dictation app with Swift

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been wanting to reduce the amount of typing I do on a daily basis. Between writing messages, emails, and documentation - there’s a lot of text to produce. macOS does have a built-in dictation feature but I had concerns about its accuracy - it relies on a model running locally on the Mac, and I figured a cloud-based speech-to-text service would produce better results, especially for technical jargon and longer dictation sessions. On top of that, the built-in dictation doesn’t clean up filler words, and I wanted something that I could customize to my own needs. So I decided to build my own dictation app.

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Building a dictation app with Swift