MacOS has a built in microphone feature not enough people use
Building on artificial intelligence’s long-term success as a transcription tool, plenty of new AI-powered apps have sprung up in the past few years to apply the added multimodal benefits of generative AI to the same task. Apps like Wispr Flow and Monologue are probably the most popular options available now thanks to their clever combination of extra context (via screenshots or knowledge of the app you’re using) to tweak their output wherever you choose to type with your voice, but free open-source options like Handy exist, too.