Dictly
Hold a hotkey, speak, and get the text pasted or copied, transcribed on your Mac by Whisper.GetMIT
FnKey
Hold the Fn key, speak, and release to paste a cloud transcription of what you said.
GPL-3.0 · Downloads from github.com
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Open source
- Source
- GitHub
- evoleinik
- Verified
- 2026
About FnKey
FnKey is a small menu bar utility for push-to-talk dictation. The microphone is only active while you hold Fn; when you let go, the recording is transcribed and pasted into the frontmost app, optionally followed by Return. A keywords file lets you add custom vocabulary.
Transcription is not done on the Mac: you supply your own Deepgram key for streaming results or a Groq key for Whisper, written to a configuration folder from the terminal. Separate Apple silicon and Intel builds are available on the GitHub releases page.
Information
- Source code
- evoleinik/fnkey
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Website
- github.com
- Download
- github.com
- Category
- AI
- Evidence checked
- Tags
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- github.com/evoleinik/fnkey
- github.com/evoleinik/fnkey/blob/main/LICENSE
- github.com/evoleinik/fnkey/releases
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