What's the best dictation app for an 8GB MacBook?

Apple’s newest on-device AI dictation requires 12 GB of unified memory, which rules out most 8 GB Macs. Dicta needs about 1.5 GB and runs the full pipeline, speech recognition, corrections and AI rewriting, on 8 GB and 16 GB Apple Silicon Macs (M1 through M3).

See the Dicta for Mac page for more on why base-RAM Macs are a first-class target, not an afterthought.