pomvox

pomvox · private voice dictation for macOS

Pomvox eats your ums.

Hold a key, talk, and clean text lands wherever you type. Your voice never leaves your Mac.

Download for Mac
brew install --cask pomvox/pomvox/pomvox

Free and open source · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · v0.2.8

Watch Pom clean up a dictation

you said

um so i think we should like ship the beta on thursday and uh tell the list on friday

hold me

Pom wrote

I think we should ship the beta on Thursday, and tell the list on Friday.

Hold space or hold Pom to talk
0 ums eaten
I write down what you said. Never what you didn’t.

— Pom

A stenographer that lives on your Mac.

It doesn’t gossip.

There’s no network code in the transcription path. Audio and text stay on your Mac, and it works with the Wi‑Fi off.

it’s open source. go check.

It works in any app.

Mail, Slack, your editor, the terminal. Hold the key, talk, let go. The words land at your cursor.

fn by default

It never makes things up.

Fillers go, punctuation arrives, and when it isn’t sure, you get back exactly what you said.

byte for byte

The part that eats the ums is a Swift package.

Pomvox Cleanup Engine turns raw transcripts into text a person would send, locally, with every edit accounted for.

Meet the engine 
// open once, clean repeatedly
let cleaner = try await Cleaner.open(
    pack: .directory(packURL),
    runtime: .mlx, policy: .local)

let r = try await cleaner.clean(
    CleanupRequest("um please send the pomvox report tomorrow",
                   vocabulary: ["Pomvox"]))
r.text    // "Please send the Pomvox report tomorrow."
r.status  // .cleaned

Questions, answered.

What is Pomvox?

Pomvox is a free, open-source voice dictation app for macOS. You hold a hotkey, speak, and let go. Pomvox transcribes your speech on the Apple Neural Engine, cleans it up with a small local model, and pastes the finished text at your cursor in any app. Audio and transcripts never leave your Mac.

Is Pomvox private?

Yes. Your audio and transcripts are processed entirely on your Mac and are never sent to any server. There is no network code in the transcription path, and because Pomvox is open source you can check. Anonymous usage stats are optional: nothing is sent until you choose on first launch, and no field can carry audio or text.

Does Pomvox work offline?

Yes. After a one-time model download, Pomvox runs fully offline. No internet connection is needed to dictate.

Is Pomvox free?

Yes. Pomvox is free and open source. The full source code is on GitHub for anyone to read, build, and contribute to.

Does Pomvox remove filler words like “um” and “uh”?

Yes. After transcription, a local cleanup model removes filler words, fixes punctuation and capitalization, and resolves spoken self-corrections such as “Thursday, no wait, Friday.” When cleanup cannot produce an accepted result, Pomvox keeps your transcript as spoken instead of guessing.

Which models does Pomvox use?

Pomvox transcribes with Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 on the Apple Neural Engine and cleans up the text with SimpleWords v3, a local model that runs on the GPU. Both run on your Mac, and the cleanup weights are public on Hugging Face.

What do I need to run Pomvox?

A Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) running macOS 14 or later.

Which apps does Pomvox work in?

Any app with a text field: code editors, terminals, mail, chat, notes. One hotkey drops clean text at your cursor wherever you are.

How do I install Pomvox?

Run brew install --cask pomvox/pomvox/pomvox in Terminal, or download the notarized .dmg from GitHub Releases.

What is the Pomvox Cleanup Engine?

The Pomvox Cleanup Engine is a local-first Swift SDK that turns raw transcripts into clean text for other apps. It reports every edit it makes and returns the exact input when cleanup cannot finish. It is an unreleased developer preview.

Hire Pom. It’s free.

Download for Mac
brew install --cask pomvox/pomvox/pomvox

macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · notarized by Apple