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# Openbroca
> Openbroca is a native Mac app for multilingual dictation and voice translation. Speak naturally, review the result, and insert it into the text field you're using. It requires macOS 15 or later and an internet connection.
Last updated: 2026-10-14
## Canonical product pages
- [Openbroca Blog](https://openbroca.com/blog): Practical, source-backed guides to voice typing and writing workflows on Mac. New articles are listed in the [RSS feed](https://openbroca.com/blog/feed.xml).
- [Home](https://openbroca.com/): Current product overview, features, requirements, and FAQ.
- [Product film](https://openbroca.com/video/openbroca-film-v1.mp4): A one-minute English film, also embedded on the homepage, showing dictation into a chat app, cleanup that keeps the speaker's tone, automatic vocabulary learning, notch placement, and dictation history. Prices shown in the film can change; use the pricing page.
- [Pricing](https://openbroca.com/pricing): Free weekly quota and Unlimited subscription prices.
- [Why Mac](https://openbroca.com/why-mac): Why the current product is built specifically for macOS.
- [Privacy Policy](https://openbroca.com/privacy): Data collection, retention, use, and deletion.
- [Terms of Service](https://openbroca.com/terms): Terms governing the current app and service.
- [Openbroca Origin](https://openbroca.com/open-source): Relationship between the current product and the open-source experiment.
- [Free voice tools](https://openbroca.com/tools): Browser-based microphone, recording, and speech utilities.
- [Mac dictation guide](https://openbroca.com/guides/mac-dictation): Setup, shortcuts, permissions, and troubleshooting.
- [Dictation apps for Mac](https://openbroca.com/best-dictation-apps-for-mac): A comparison based on documented features, with official sources and an ownership disclosure.
- [Mac dictation benchmark](https://openbroca.com/research/mac-dictation-benchmark): The published test protocol. Results are pending; this page does not contain completed accuracy or speed measurements.
## Current Openbroca product
- Native Swift app for macOS 15 or later.
- Universal build for Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
- Multilingual dictation input, with automatic language detection.
- Voice translation into 28 output languages. Input support and translation output are separate capabilities.
- Refines transcripts for readability. Users should review names, numbers, and important wording.
- Optional Screen Context uses visible on-screen words to help recognize names and specialized terms.
- A personal dictionary stores preferred vocabulary and replacements.
- Inserts text in the focused field and uses the clipboard as a fallback.
- Requires an internet connection for cloud speech recognition and refinement.
- Free to download with a weekly dictation quota.
- An optional Unlimited plan removes the weekly quota; use the canonical pricing page for current prices.
- The current app is available for macOS. A Windows version is planned, with a waitlist on the homepage.
- Published by Openbroca Team.
## Processing and privacy
- The Mac app uses cloud speech recognition and text processing. It is not an offline transcription app.
- The [Privacy Policy](https://openbroca.com/privacy) describes audio processing, retained text and context, third-party processing, and account deletion.
- The browser tools have their own processing requirements. Their behavior should not be used to describe the Mac app's privacy or language support.
## Openbroca Origin
- Openbroca Origin is the official name of the early, experimental open-source implementation.
- It is Timothy Lau's personal open-source project.
- It is an Electron application for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
- It supports configurable local and cloud speech recognition and multiple language-model providers.
- It is free, MIT-licensed, and continues to be maintained.
- Repository: [github.com/0xlau/openbroca](https://github.com/0xlau/openbroca)
- Openbroca Origin and the current native Swift app are completely separate codebases. They share history and a product idea, not code.
## People and entities
- Current product publisher: Openbroca Team
- Founder: Timothy Lau
- GitHub: [github.com/0xlau](https://github.com/0xlau)
- X: [x.com/thetimothylau](https://x.com/thetimothylau)
- LinkedIn: [linkedin.com/in/thetimothylau](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thetimothylau)
