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Cadenza for Mac

Local-first voice dictation that types speech at your cursor, with optional cloud recognition.

By DragonKingIO. Free and open source, MIT licence.

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Cadenza at a glance

Version
1.2.0
Released
9 October 2026
Download size
31 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Audio and Music
Developer
DragonKingIO
GitHub stars
3

About Cadenza

Local-first voice input for macOS (随言). Hold a shortcut, speak, and the text is typed at your cursor. Recognition runs on your Mac with SenseVoice, FireRedASR2 or Parakeet; cloud services are optional, with your own keys and consent. No account, no telemetry. 本地优先的 macOS 语音输入，开源 MIT。

Screenshots

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How to install Cadenza on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Cadenza and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 1.2.0 from DragonKingIO's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to Cadenza show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Cadenza-1.2.0-macos-universal.dmg (31 MB).

What is new in Cadenza 1.2.0

**Early preview.** Cadenza 1.2.0 adds voice translation with its own shortcut, more cloud speech and text recognition services, two more on-device speech models, and quieter speech handling. The package runs on **Apple silicon and Intel Macs, macOS 14 or later**.

中文说明见下方。

## What's new

- **Voice translation has its own shortcut and page** (Settings → Translation). Ordinary dictation no longer translates. If you had a language chosen, set a translate shortcut to keep translating.
- **Shortcuts:** "Hold to talk" and "Tap to start and stop" are two rows, each with its own switch and key. The Hold/Tap choice is gone.
- **More cloud speech services:** OpenAI, Groq, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, AssemblyAI, ElevenLabs, and any service that copies the OpenAI transcription API. Each one has a setup guide on the website.
- **More cloud text recognition:** Microsoft Azure AI Vision and Mistral OCR. For the same company, one key is shared between speech recognition, text recognition and My AI models.
- **Two more on-device speech models** (experimental): Paraformer and Qwen3-ASR.
- **Quiet speech:** local models read soft recordings after noise reduction, when a steady room noise is close to the voice.
- Vocabulary packs, text tidying, AI polish, and "My AI models" for polishing and translation.
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