Who builds Voiacast
Voiacast is built and shipped by one person from the Netherlands. A senior network engineer who spends his day in a terminal — and would prefer to spend less of it on the keyboard.
Founder note
Jamie is a senior network engineer in the Netherlands. His day-to-day work runs across firewalls, segmentation, monitoring, and the automation that holds them together — the kind of operations that get quieter when the right things are written down once and stop catching on fire. He runs a homelab, writes a SASE series at lumiosa.com, and builds small tools at the seam between traditional infrastructure and the AI glue that now sits around it.
Voiacast started because the keyboard had begun to cost more time than it was worth. Built-in dictation didn't know how to write Next.js, tcpdump, or the names of half the systems he touches in a week. Cloud-first competitors fixed the accuracy by routing every word through someone else's building. "I built Voiacast because I wanted dictation that understood the words I actually use, on the Mac that was already running everything else."
Voiacast is a native macOS app for people who type for a living. On-device by default — audio never leaves the Mac in the default path. Hold a hotkey, talk, and the words land in whatever field your cursor is already in: terminal, IDE, email draft, chat window. No account. No per-minute quota. No Voiacast server holding a transcript. The Free tier is the full app on the small Whisper models; Pro adds the larger models, multi-profile hotkeys, an unlimited custom dictionary, and bring-your-own-key cloud transcription for the rare occasions it earns its keep.
Write in at info@voiacast.com. Bug reports, refunds, team licensing, product questions, and feedback all reach the same inbox; replies come from a person. Code at GitHub. Background at LinkedIn. Other work at lumiosa.com.
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