Alternatives to fcitx5-vinput

These tools sit near fcitx5-vinput. Compare features and pricing before you switch.

Alternatives

Desktop dictation on macOS: not this addon. Stay on the platform IME.
mlx-serve: local LLM server on Apple Silicon, not an IME.
Cloud ASR APIs alone: use them without Fcitx5 if you only needed a file transcriber.

mlx-serve is a MIT Zig inference server for Apple Silicon that runs MLX and GGUF locally with OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, no Python.

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