Cadence
macOS voice dictation: a native menu-bar shell over a compiled real-time speech engine.
- Period
- Jul 2026 → Aug 2026
- Role
- Solo build
- Status
- Internal tool
- Category
- Developer tools
Work and results
- Built an engine supervisor that restarts the engine with backoff after a crash, permission checks that read the current status without opening a prompt, and a code-signature check on its own builds.
Stack
- Swift
- TypeScript
- Bun
- Soniox