One-sentence description

IraVoice for Mac is private dictation software that turns speech into polished text or an agent-ready Markdown brief using on-device speech recognition on Apple-silicon Macs.

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Current product facts

  • Runs on macOS 26 or later on Apple-silicon Macs.
  • Uses Right Option for Dictate and Globe for Voice-to-Spec.
  • Performs speech recognition and supported formatting on the Mac.
  • Offers a 3-day full trial; a personal license costs $50 once.
  • Current version 0.7.6 is Developer ID signed and Apple-notarized.
  • The official Homebrew cask installs the same checksum-verified disk image without a custom installer or post-install script.
  • Publishes no unsupported accuracy ranking or “best app” claim.

Data brief for journalists

IraVoice reviewed 33 first-party sources for 18 current Mac dictation products. The dated dataset separates local speech recognition from optional cleanup, assistant, vocabulary, provider, and destination paths.

16/18products document a local speech-to-text path
2/18products have no documented local speech path
10/16locally capable products also document a connected path
33first-party sources reviewed

Cohorts describe the documentation reviewed on July 26, 2026. They are not a privacy ranking, security certification, or claim that one architecture fits every workflow. The work reviews public documentation; it is not packet inspection or a security audit.

Read the methodology and sourcesDownload the research brief

Recognition benchmark for journalists

IraVoice ran Apple SpeechAnalyzer and whisper.cpp small.en over the same deterministic 40-speaker LibriSpeech test-clean snapshot. Each engine completed two real-time-paced runs through the production adapter with zero failed clips.

1.98%Apple SpeechAnalyzer WER
4.28%whisper.cpp small.en WER
4complete final-commit runs
160downloadable clip-run rows

Clean read English speech is a reproducible baseline, not ordinary live dictation. The study does not establish noisy, spontaneous, accented, multilingual, accessibility, or population-wide performance.

Read the benchmark and limitationsDownload the benchmark brief

Official media assets

IraVoice for Mac social previewSocial preview · PNG · 1200×630IraVoice app iconApp icon · PNG · 512×512IraVoice cursor-pulse brand markBrand mark · SVGIraVoice Dictate workflow launch imageDictate gallery · PNG · 1270×760IraVoice Voice-to-Spec workflow launch imageVoice-to-Spec gallery · PNG · 1270×760

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