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Sriram Balasubramanian

Abra

Hold Fn, speak, release. On-device dictation for macOS.

PythonActively developed
Source on GitHub

Install

brew install --cask ramsrib/tap/abra

abracadabra — from the Aramaic avra kehdabra, “I create as I speak.”

Hold Fn, say the thing, release. Clean text appears wherever your cursor already is — an editor, a terminal, an agent prompt, a text field in some app that has never heard of dictation.

Everything runs on-device. Nothing you say leaves your Mac, which is the whole reason I stopped using the alternatives.

Talking to coding agents is what pushed me to build it: prompts are long, and typing them is slower than saying them.