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parrot for Mac

Hold-to-talk on-device dictation: speak while holding fn, words stream at the cursor.

By humanitas-labs. Free and open source, MIT licence.

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parrot at a glance

Version
0.2.3
Released
1 October 2026
Download size
2.6 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Audio and Music
Developer
humanitas-labs
GitHub stars
1.3K

About parrot

Ultra-minimalist macOS dictation.

How to install parrot on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for parrot and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.2.3 from humanitas-labs'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 parrot 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: Parrot.dmg (2.6 MB).

What is new in parrot 0.2.3

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/humanitas-labs/parrot/compare/v0.2.2...v0.2.3

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