Arion

Local-first voice dictation and Pinyin input for macOS and Windows, built with MyGo native Go UI.

English · 简体中文 · 日本語

Overview

Cloud dictation tools require sending raw microphone audio and window context to remote servers, while built-in OS offline dictation struggles with mid-sentence Chinese/English code-switching, domain terminology, and application-specific formatting.

AstraFoundry built Arion as an open-source, local-first, self-hostable voice and Pinyin input method. Speech recognition, offline full-Pinyin typing, correction learning, and contextual polishing run on your device while keeping raw audio and encryption keys on your machine.

Features

• Hold-to-Talk & Native System IME — Hold the global dictation key (default right ⌥ on macOS, right Alt on Windows) in any focused editor to speak Mandarin, English, or mixed technical terms (e.g. “把这个 PR merge 到 main 之前，先跑一下 CI”), and release to…