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🗣️ A CLI for on-device speech transcription using Speech.framework on macOS 26

8 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2025-06-18 · latest 2026-07-29

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  1. There is a pre-existing transcription CLI app with the same name. https://github.com/finnvoor/yap
    comment by foobarqux · 2026-07-29 · in Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download
  2. …Same name and also more or less an app layer for the new speech to text APIs introduced in OS 26. https://github.com/finnvoor/yap
    comment by hbn · 2026-07-28 · in Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download
  3. If you want to use this on the CLI: https://github.com/finnvoor/yap . Supports SRT/TXT/VTT or JSON-with-optional-word-level-timestamps output and progress meter. Also it can transcribe live system audio.
    comment by foobarqux · 2026-07-13 · in Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
  4. …mp3: yap/Speechanalyzer is about 50% slower than fluidaudio on M1. yap interface is nicer though. https://github.com/finnvoor/yap
    comment by foobarqux · 2026-07-13 · in Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
  5. …a pretty good dictation model in the OS 26 updates. Someone made a cli utility to play with it: https://github.com/finnvoor/yap I tried it and was pretty impressed. That said I haven't heard anything yet about them switching to this for…
    comment by hbn · 2026-06-09 · in Siri AI
  6. …leverages the built-in models exposed though Speech.framework on macOS 26 (Tahoe). Project repo: https://github.com/finnvoor/yap
    comment by mathis · 2026-04-06 · in Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS
  7. Tangentially, https://github.com/finnvoor/yap A CLI for on-device speech transcription using Speech.framework on macOS 26 The MacStories article made it seem about 2x as fast as Whisper, but there's no network or shared servers involved,…
    comment by jkmcf · 2025-06-18 · in My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server