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SuperVoiceMode launches AI voice interface for macOS with on-device dictation and character-based assistant named Iris
Hacker News · April 28, 2026
AI Summary
- •SuperVoiceMode is a free macOS 14+ application offering on-device speech-to-text dictation activated by holding Option + Shift, delivering cleaned text to the cursor in under two seconds, with no audio leaving the user's machine.
- •The tool includes Iris, a named AI assistant with personality and voice, plus 30+ bundled personas (character variations) that can be layered to shift how the assistant sounds while preserving its core identity.
- •All processing—speech-to-text, correction, and character voices—runs locally on the user's machine; when integrated with an AI service, the user controls their API keys and data, and the company states it never sees audio or request content.
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