punk2898/punktype

PunkType is a macOS menu bar app that lets you speak instead of type. You press a keyboard shortcut, say what you want to write, press the shortcut again to stop, and the text is automatically cleaned up by AI and pasted wherever your cursor is. It runs in the background as a small icon in the menu bar and requires macOS 14 or later. The app works in two modes. In standard dictation mode, your voice is converted to text by your Mac's built-in speech recognition, then sent to DeepSeek (an AI service you connect with your own API key) to turn spoken language into polished written text. There are three output styles: a fast mode that types the raw transcription with no AI processing, a polished mode that removes filler words and cleans up informal speech, and a formatted mode that restructures your words into something like an email, a report, a summary, or a list of action items. In command mode, you first select some text in any app, then press the shortcut and speak an instruction, such as "summarize this" or "translate to English." The result appears in a popup where you can copy it or replace the selected text directly. This works across any application on your Mac. The app also builds a personal dictionary from your usage, extracting technical terms, names, and product names to help the recognition avoid errors on words specific to your work. You can also enable OpenAI's cloud transcription service as a fallback if the local recognition is inaccurate. All data goes directly from your machine to the AI provider using your own API key, with no intermediate server involved. The README is written in Chinese with a linked English version. The project is released under the MIT license and the code is auditable and compilable from source.