Prepare your Mac

What you need

• A Mac with Apple Silicon and macOS 14 or later.
• About 10 GB of free disk space for model weights and containers.
• Homebrew and a working terminal.
• Xcode for building NautPin from source, plus the just recipe runner.
• Microphone and accessibility permissions for dictation.

The system you’ll build

You press a hotkey, talk
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NautPin captures the mic → WhisperKit (on-device) transcribes
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Local LLM in LM Studio cleans up the transcript
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Text gets typed at your cursor in whatever app is focused
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(Optional) Any text reply can be POSTed to Kokoro
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Kokoro speaks it back — Emma's voice, sub-second latency

Three local services, one open-source app, the core services connected over localhost.

It’s working if

You have the required tools and understand the path from microphone input to local text processing and speech output.