A macOS menu bar app for fast local transcription via Parakeet. Press a hotkey, speak, press again — pasted into the focused window. A cursor-following overlay shows the live preview as you speak. ParaDict was originally based on MiniWhisper.
demo.mp4
ParaDict requires macOS 14 or later, a Swift 6 toolchain, and just.
just devThis builds, signs, installs ParaDict to /Applications, and launches it. On first launch, ParaDict downloads the Parakeet model and requests Microphone and Accessibility permissions. The default recording shortcut is Option+Shift+R and can be changed from the menu bar.
If just dev fails because the signing identity is missing, open Keychain Access, create a new self-signed certificate, choose Code Signing, name it local-dev, then rerun just dev or set DEV_CODESIGN_IDENTITY to a different installed identity.