SoftBestsHexUnderrated
Hold a shortcut, speak, and get local, on-device dictation pasted into any app.
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People who dictate into coding agents, chat, or long documents and want the audio to stay on their computer.
Why it deserves attention
Hex keeps speech recognition on your computer: hold Alt+Space, speak, release, and the transcription lands at the cursor. The first run downloads a model; after that, audio stays local. It runs on Apple silicon Macs with macOS 15 or later, Windows x64 and ARM64, and Linux x64 and ARM64, with a 5,200-star MIT-licensed codebase and a stable 3.3 release. Because it types into any text field, it fits coding agents, chat, and long-form writing without a separate transcription window. The trade-off is that it is dictation only, not a meeting recorder, and Mac support is Apple silicon only.
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