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Murmur adds free push-to-talk dictation for Mac with your OpenAI key

What to do

Build the open-source macOS menu bar app with full Xcode if you want dictation without a subscription.

Why

It costs about 0.27 dollars per hour of speech, and the cost and build details are verified.

What the research found

Murmur is a free open-source macOS menu bar push-to-talk dictation app that uses the user's own OpenAI key, costs about $0.27 per hour of speech, and needs full Xcode to build.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

Murmur is free open-source macOS push-to-talk dictation using the user's own OpenAI key 99%
Dictation costs about $0.27 per hour of speech 99%
Murmur sends audio directly from Mac to OpenAI with no Murmur server 99%
Install requires full Xcode, not just Command Line Tools 99%

Evidence

github.com https://github.com/leochaddad/murmur

Actionability rated medium.