What dictation costs you each month
$1.90/month with AeriVoiceat 19¢ an hour
Save $157 a yearvs. Wispr Flow at $15/month
Soniox + Cerebras at list prices. Subscriptions are monthly Pro plans, checked October 2026.
Free, open-source AI dictation for Mac.
Free · Apple Silicon, macOS 26+
Open source, MIT license
A MacBook opens. You press your AeriVoice shortcut and talk: the notch shows “Listening…” and then your words as you say them, then “Refining…”, and the cleaned-up text is pasted into the terminal prompt you were typing in.

Drops the ums, fixes punctuation, keeps your wording.
DefaultSmooths the grammar and keeps the day you meant.
Turns spoken lists into real ones and applies your corrections.
Polished, plus your own instructions.“Translate into Japanese.”
“um so for the launch first update the changelog second tag the release and uh we’ll ship on monday sorry wednesday”
2 October 2026 at 9:41
Launch
For the launch, first update the changelog, second, tag the release, and we’ll ship on Monday, sorry, Wednesday.
Ready. What should we work on?
For the launch, first update the changelog, then tag the release. We’ll ship on Wednesday.
enter to send
To: Launch team
Subject: Launch plan
Hi all,
For the launch:1. Update the changelog.2. Tag the release.We’ll ship on Wednesday.
Today 9:41
ローンチまでに何が残っていますか?
ローンチに向けて、まず変更履歴を更新し、次にリリースにタグを付けます。水曜日に公開します。
Results depend on your cleanup model. Compose and Custom are experimental.
$1.90/month with AeriVoiceat 19¢ an hour
Save $157 a yearvs. Wispr Flow at $15/month
Soniox + Cerebras at list prices. Subscriptions are monthly Pro plans, checked October 2026.
Mix any of these for transcription and cleanup, or transcribe locally right on your Mac.
From when you stop talking to cleaned-up text in your app.
AeriVoice: median of 20 dictations with Soniox v5 and Qwen 3.8 27B on Cerebras, October 2026 (how it’s measured). Wispr Flow: its stated 700 ms target.
Dictionary
Add the names and jargon you use; AeriVoice passes them to your transcription engine as hints.
Without
Ask Shivon to check the cube control logs.
With your dictionary
Ask Siobhán to check the kubectl logs.
Offline mode
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 or Apple Speech transcribe right on your Mac.
Privacy
Your audio goes straight to the providers you pick, and your keys stay in the macOS Keychain.
Dictionary hints help recognition on supported engines; they can’t guarantee spelling. Offline mode skips AI cleanup.
Your voice, in writing.