yap

There is a pre-existing transcription CLI app with the same name. https://github.com/finnvoor/yap

I thought I was familiar with this project but I think it’s unrelated to this one I remembered from last year? Same name and also more or less an app layer for the new speech to text APIs introduced in OS 26. https://github.com/finnvoor/yap

If you want to use this on the CLI: https://github.com/finnvoor/yap. Supports SRT/TXT/VTT or JSON-with-optional-word-level-timestamps output and progress meter. Also it can transcribe live system audio.

Just tried test using yap on a single ~1hr mp3: yap/Speechanalyzer is about 50% slower than fluidaudio on M1. yap interface is nicer though. https://github.com/finnvoor/yap

They actually released a pretty good dictation model in the OS 26 updates. Someone made a cli utility to play with it: https://github.com/finnvoor/yap I tried it and was pretty impressed. That said I haven't heard anything yet about them switching to this for the text input voice dictation in iOS but it would be really nice.

If you don't feel like downloading a large model, you can also use `yap dictate`. Yap leverages the built-in models exposed though Speech.framework on macOS 26 (Tahoe). Project repo: https://github.com/finnvoor/yap

Tangentially, https://github.com/finnvoor/yap A CLI for on-device speech transcription using Speech.framework on macOS 26 The MacStories article made it seem about 2x as fast as Whisper, but there's no network or shared servers involved, so it's effectively faster.