01
Click
Open Minivox from the menu bar and tap the microphone.
Minivoxone small joblocal dictation
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// tiny dictation
Say it. Minivox types it.
A tiny menu-bar app for quick, local dictation. Click, speak, and stop. Minivox turns your voice into text and copies it to the clipboard.
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Minivox
tiny local dictation
Tap to dictate
Press Space or click the microphone.
Dictation copied
Meet me outside the studio at half past three.
load 0mstranscribe 127mstotal 142ms
Parakeet readyMicrophone ready
// one small job
From your voice to the clipboard in three steps.
02
Speak
Say what you need. Parakeet transcribes the recording locally.
03
Paste
The finished dictation copies itself, ready for any app.
// tiny by design
Small enough to stay out of your way.
Minivox lives in the menu bar, keeps model readiness visible, and disappears when you are done. It is a direct Vox embed with no daemon, browser bridge, reply engine, or speech-generation step.
Automatic clipboard
Stop recording and the finished text is already copied. Paste it wherever you were working.
Local Parakeet transcription
Audio is recorded and transcribed on the Mac. Warm-up stays an explicit control so the first dictation is predictable.
// run minivox
Install, then dictate.
npm and Homebrew install the same signed and notarized release. The installer opens Minivox automatically; look for its waveform in the menu bar.
Installs the minivox command too. Add --quiet or --verbose to control setup output.
After installation
- 01Put the text cursor where you want your dictation.
- 02Press ⌥Space to start, then allow microphone access.
- 03Press ⌥Space again to stop. Minivox copies the text and pastes it when Accessibility access is enabled.
The first dictation may download Parakeet. Open minivox settings to change the shortcut or microphone.