Notes — Product sync
Action items
- Maya — ship syllabus draft by Friday
- Jordan — review budget line for lab kit
- You — send recap to #launch before noon
Talk through a meeting. Get notes and action items — not a transcript dump.
Boring Labs · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon
Speak it. It lands clean.
Menu-bar dictation that stays on your Mac — built for engineers, teachers, students, writers, and founders. Hold Right Option, talk, and polished text appears where your cursor already is. Local model. One-time $25. Not a subscription.
Interactive proofs
The chrome you’ll live in.
Meeting notes, rewrites, Slack, email, hotkeys, and the live pill — pick a flow and see it.
Formal
Please find attached the revised proposal for next week’s review.
Casual
Hey — tossed the updated proposal in. Mind a look before Thursday?
Bullets
• Revised proposal attached
• Review before Thursday
• Flag blockers in thread
Summarize
Updated proposal ready for Thursday review; call out blockers in-thread.
Same thought, four shapes — formal, casual, bullets, or a tight summary.
New Message
To sam@school.edu
Subject Grant draft
Raw dictate
hey so um can you send me the thing for the grant like the draft whenever you get a chance thanks
Email-ready
Hi Sam — could you send over the grant draft when you have a moment? Thanks so much.
Rambling voice → a message you’d actually send.
You
You
Heads up — the Q-SYS core reboot is at 6. I’ll post the Dante patch list after.
Message #studio-ops
Slack tone on tap. Brand and tool names stay exact.
Selected: “make this sound more confident without being salesy”
We’re ready to ship. The demo is solid, the story is clear, and the next step is yours when you want it.
Selection → local agent transform · never leaves the Mac
Highlight text, run a command, get a rewrite — all on-device.
Draft
Our new app is really cool and helps you talk instead of type and its local!!
Polished
Voiceinator turns speech into clean text on your Mac — fully local, one-time $25. No subscription. No cloud audio.
Marketing copy cleanup without the SaaS round-trip.
⌥
Right Option
Default
⌃ ⌥
Your combo
User-changeable
Default Right-Option — change it to whatever your hands already know.
Hold
Press, speak, release. Mic lives only while your finger does.
Toggle
Hands-free from the menu bar when you’re pacing a lecture or a walkthrough.
Two modes. Same local pipeline.
The midterm review is Thursday at 2 in room 214.
Live text + the pill UI — quiet confidence while you talk.
Please revise the conclusion so it feels warmer. The results were fine overall.
Dictate over
Rewrite selection
The results gave us a clear next step — and a little room to celebrate.
Highlight → edit or dictate over the selection. Surgical, not start-over.
One-time vs subscription
Buy once. Keep the LTV.
Wispr is cloud dictation on a subscription. Voiceinator runs a local model on your Mac — best privacy, and the cheapest lifetime value because you pay once.
Typical cloud dictation
Wispr & friends
- Subscription billing
- Audio leaves your machine
- Cost stacks every month
Boring Labs
Voiceinator
- One-time $25 — not a subscription
- Offline with a local model
- Nothing leaves the machine
- Best privacy + cheapest LTV
Pipeline
Three beats. Zero cloud hops.
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01
Hold · speak · release
Global hotkey (Right-Option) or menu-bar toggle. Mic capture stays in the Swift shell — no browser, no extension.
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02
Transcribe & clean locally
Audio rides a local Unix socket to an MLX sidecar: Whisper for STT, then a local LLM for cleanup and formatting.
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03
Text lands in focus
Clipboard paste first, Accessibility when native, keystrokes as fallback. Your vocabulary biases both models so terms stick.
Local-only
Nothing leaves the machine.
Speech-to-text and cleanup both run on-device. No upload. No “send to the cloud for better results.” Your drafts, lectures, and client names stay yours.
- On-device mlx-whisper transcription
- Local MLX LLM cleanup
- Unix-domain socket between shell and sidecar
- Vocabulary lives on your Mac
- One-time purchase — no subscription cloud lock-in
Who it’s for
Everyone who talks faster than they type.
Engineers shipping tickets. Teachers writing between classes. Students drafting essays. Writers chasing first drafts. Founders clearing inboxes. Your jargon sticks — course codes, client names, Q-SYS and Dante alike.
Engineers
APIs, ticket updates, and standups without fighting autocorrect.
Teachers
Lesson notes, parent emails, and rubrics between classes.
Students
Lecture captures, essay drafts, and group-chat clarity.
Writers
First drafts at speaking speed — cleanup stays local.
Founders
Investor notes, hiring emails, and product copy on the fly.
Launch · $25 one-time · v0.1.0
Meet Voicey. Own the mic.
Voiceinator is a one-time purchase — not a subscription. Launch price $25. Offline local model on your Mac — best privacy and cheapest lifetime value vs Wispr.
Buy now — $25
Questions? hello@boringlabs.online · hello@boringstories.io