Beam agent builds BeamSpeak, a local Parakeet dictation app for macOS
ben_burtenshaw · x · 2026-10-16
Using Beam plus the Pi coding agent, benburtenshaw built BeamSpeak: a macOS menu-bar dictation app running Parakeet locally on MLX. Hit ⌘⇧Space, talk, and text lands at your cursor.
The full agent trace and source code are published on the Hugging Face Hub, letting you inspect every decision from idea to shipping app.
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