Reclaim Your Privacy: Building an AI-Powered iOS Keyboard at Home

iPhone's native keyboard has traditionally sent speech data to Apple's servers, but a new open-source stack combining Diction, Parakeet, and Ollama enables complete local transcription and post-processing without any cloud dependency. This demonstrates how self-hosted AI infrastructure is becoming accessible to individual users, shifting control of sensitive data from cloud providers back to personal devices. The technology requires minimal resources (under 3GB RAM) and proves that privacy-respecting alternatives are no longer prohibitively complex for tech-savvy users.