The keyboard is a remote control
iOS blocks audio capture in every extension process, so Outspoken's keyboard never records you. It drives a dictation session in the container app instead.
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How Parakeet turns sound into text on the Neural Engine
A technical walkthrough of NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT model as it runs inside Outspoken: the transducer, the CoreML conversion, why batch beats streaming here.
Outspoken: designing an app you mostly don't see
Outspoken is a menu bar app with no Dock icon and one visible surface. The design decisions behind the shader, the HUD, and what got left out.