Echo — Local AI Dictation for macOS
We built Echo — a dark, dev-native macOS dictation app that turns spoken Arabic into clean English at your cursor. Transcription runs on-device with Whisper; an LLM polishes the result.
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The Challenge
An Arabic speaker who writes in English lives with constant friction: thinking in one language, typing in another. Cloud dictation tools solve half of it — but they upload your voice to a server, demand a subscription, and stumble on Arabic. We wanted a tool that was local, fast, and private.
What We Built
Echo is a native macOS app: speak Arabic, and clean English text appears right at your cursor. Transcription runs on your device with Whisper, then an LLM polishes the result — in a calm, dev-native tone set in a monospace typeface.
Health and Permissions at a Glance
The settings panel surfaces the status of everything: microphone permission, device, accessibility access, the transcription model, and the polish provider — so you know it’s all ready before you speak.
Flexible Polish, Any Provider
Transcription is always local; for polish you pick the provider — local Ollama, OpenAI, Groq, DeepSeek, and more — over ten options, with your own key.
Why This Matters
Echo is a tool we built for ourselves first — then shipped. It embodies what we believe: local-first, private by default, and experience details that don’t compromise.