macOS's built-in AI dictation needs 12 GB of unified memory. Your M1 Air doesn't care.

Dicta for Mac -- full AI dictation on the Macs Apple left behind

The AI dictation your Mac was told it’s too old for

Apple’s newest on-device dictation needs 12 GB of unified memory to run. If you’re on an 8 GB or 16 GB M1, M2 or M3 Mac, that leaves you out.

Dicta needs about 1.5 GB. It runs the full pipeline, speech recognition, corrections, AI rewriting, on the Mac you already own.

Full AI dictation on 8 GB and 16 GB Apple Silicon Macs, not just the newest ones.
Everything runs on-device: no upload, no account needed to use it.
Works with no internet connection at all (see the Airplane Mode Test on the home page).

Turn off Wi-Fi and keep dictating. Nothing changes, because nothing was ever sent anywhere.

Dicta is in preview. Join the waitlist and we’ll let you know the moment it’s ready to download.

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