Steno
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Steno 1.1 for Apple silicon Macs on macOS 13 or later. Free and open source. The download is about 440 MB.

Download for Mac
  1. Open the DMG. Open Steno-1.1.0.dmg from your Downloads folder.
  2. Drag Steno into Applications. In the window that opens, drag Steno onto the Applications folder.
  3. Open Steno. Open it from Applications. If macOS asks whether to open an app downloaded from the internet, choose Open.
  4. Follow the setup guide. It asks for Microphone, Accessibility and Input Monitoring, one at a time, and ends with a first dictation. After that, hold Option in any app, talk, and let go.

Check the download

The GitHub Releases page is the only place Steno is published, so don’t install a copy from anywhere else. Run this command and compare its output with the line for Steno-1.1.0.dmg in the release’s SHA256SUMS file.

checksum command
shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/Steno-1.1.0.dmg

Confirm who built it

To confirm the installer was built by Steno’s Release workflow, verify its attestation with GitHub CLI. See Verifying an installer.

attestation command
gh attestation verify ~/Downloads/Steno-1.1.0.dmg --repo Ankit-Cherian/steno \
  --signer-workflow Ankit-Cherian/steno/.github/workflows/release.yml

Build from source

Clone the repository, build the pinned whisper.cpp runtime, and run Steno from Xcode. See Development Setup and QUICKSTART.md.

clone commands
git clone https://github.com/Ankit-Cherian/steno.git
cd steno

Release notesInstallation guide