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Zoryn Local-first speech-to-text for macOS, audio never leaves your Mac

Zoryn is a local-first speech-to-text application for macOS that processes audio entirely on the device, ensuring user privacy by never sending audio data off the Mac.

Background

- Zoryn is a macOS app that transcribes speech to text entirely on-device — audio never leaves your Mac. This is the main selling point, since most speech-to-text tools (Otter.ai, Google Docs voice typing, even Apple's own dictation in older macOS versions) send audio to cloud servers for processing. - It's part of a "local-first AI" trend made possible by Apple Silicon (M-series chips with Neural Engine) and efficient open-source models like OpenAI's Whisper. Running locally eliminates privacy risks, works offline, and avoids subscriptions. - Apple's built-in dictation is also on-device since macOS Ventura, but it's designed for short input (search fields, texts) and doesn't produce a transcript file. Zoryn targets longer recordings: meetings, lectures, voice memos, where you want a full text record saved on your machine.