Thomas SchlossmacherFeb 4, 2026

Resonant: Private AI Dictation for Mac 🎙️

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Resonant: Private AI Dictation for Mac 🎙️

Thomas Schlossmacher·Feb 4, 2026

Resonant is a private dictation app for Mac that uses local AI models to keep your data secure on your device. It offers live transcription, memo creation, and a dispatch mode to control AI agents directly from your keyboard without leaving your current application.

Chapters

00:20

Introducing Resonant

00:44

Dictation Feature

01:00

Memo Creation

01:16

Dispatch Mode

01:37

Agent Commands

01:57

Voice Interaction

02:33

Settings and Conclusion

Transcript

00:02

Hey, I'm, Thomas.

00:03

I'm the founder of Resonant.

00:05

Resonant is a private instant dictation app that lives on your Mac.

00:09

It utilizes local AI models so that you don't have any of your information leaving your computer.

00:15

Your dictations, your corrections, your prompts, your ideas, your context, all of it stays on device processed by open source local AI models.

00:24

Let me show you how it works.

00:26

We hit the FN key and the FN key actually dictates for us here.

00:31

Here I have live transcription, so I can see with some accuracy what exactly I'm saying.

00:36

When I release the key, it's immediately dictated into the input field in front of me.

00:41

The next thing I can do is I can hit fn and control.

00:46

That creates a note.

00:47

I could have a very long memo, something I'm thinking about.

00:50

I really want to get it out there.

00:52

And then when I release that, it becomes a memo for me and it saves.

00:58

The next thing we can do is dispatch mode.

01:00

Dispatch mode is a premium feature that allows you to actually command and control agents directly from your keyboard.

01:07

So you'll see in the top corner over here, we have agents.

01:12

If I hover over one of these agents, I can click FN shift and I can give a command to this agent.

01:19

I would like it to do this work.

01:21

This is just a test Agent mode will then send that actually into the application that is utilizing this work.

01:29

So I can send it to VS code, cursor, Claude code, open code, whatever application I want.

01:36

Perplexity for web search in my browser.

01:38

It's up to you.

01:39

This creates an experience where you're using your voice to provide large amounts of context to an agent without having to leave your environment.

01:47

So the primary way that you interact with your computer is with your mouse and with your voice.

01:53

this is a new medium of interacting with agents and staying in your focus area.

01:57

if you want to see what else you can do in resonant, you can open up settings and look at what the experience is like.

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