Our Take
FnKey is the kind of simple-but-genius tool that makes you wonder why Apple didn't build it themselves. Hold the Fn key, speak, and watch transcribed text instantly paste into whatever you're working on. No buttons, no switching windows, no fuss. It's a macOS menu bar app powered by Deepgram's streaming speech recognition, which means it's fast and accurate in real-time.
Built by Marti Carmona and Eugene, FnKey is open-source and lives on GitHub. It's for anyone who thinks typing is holding them back—developers writing code, writers drafting prose, anyone who talks faster than they type. Deepgram is no joke in the speech-to-text space, so the transcription quality is legit. It's free, it's minimal, and it just works.
If you've ever wanted to dictate instead of type but hated fiddling with voice memos or switching apps, FnKey is the answer. It's voice-first input for the rest of us.
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