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Overview & Status

Public Beta

The macOS app is a Public Beta. It is functional and used daily during development, but there is no packaged build yet — you run it from source. Expect rough edges.

Verba's macOS app brings the same dictation pipeline as the VS Code extension to the entire operating system: system-wide dictation into any app — press a hotkey, speak, and Verba pastes clean text wherever your cursor is. Email, chat, browser forms, notes — anywhere you can paste, you can dictate.

How it works

  1. Press the global hotkey (Ctrl+Alt+D by default) to start recording.
  2. Speak — a floating HUD near the bottom of the screen shows the current state.
  3. Press the hotkey again to stop. Verba transcribes the recording with Deepgram Nova-3.
  4. The transcript is refined by Claude using your active template (filler-word removal, course-correction handling, voice commands, glossary/expansions — the same post-processing as the VS Code extension).
  5. The cleaned text is pasted into whichever app is currently frontmost.

See Usage for the full interaction details and Configuration for how to change language, glossary, templates, and more.

Status

  • Functional, actively developed, no packaged .dmg build published yet.
  • Run it via just macos-dev — see Installation for build-from-source setup.
  • Requires macOS; Microphone and Accessibility permissions (see Permissions).

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