Hold a button, speak, and the words appear on your Mac. BadgeMic works with the dictation tool you already use, and doubles as a name badge with your contact QR code.
Free and open source (MIT) · Apple silicon, macOS 14+ · Signed and notarized
The badge does one thing well: it listens while you hold OK. Everything else happens on your Mac, in apps you choose.
The badge records with its own microphone and compresses your voice with Opus.
An encrypted, paired Bluetooth LE link carries the audio to the BadgeMic app. No Wi-Fi, no account.
BadgeMic plays the audio into a virtual microphone and holds your tool's hotkey. Release OK and the text lands where you're typing.
A name badge when you're meeting people, a microphone when you're writing.
Design a portrait name card on your Mac and add a QR code with your vCard (phone, email, website) or any link.
Parroting, Doubao, macOS Dictation or anything with a hotkey. Profiles for hold-to-talk and press-to-toggle.
Map UP and DOWN short or long presses to shortcuts, Return, text snippets, Shortcuts, opening an app, or turning the screen off.
Choose when it dims and sleeps, keep it always on at an event, or hold a button to turn it off instantly.
Audio only travels to your own Mac over a paired link. BadgeMic itself never uploads anything.
Firmware, Mac app and virtual microphone driver are MIT licensed, built on FoloToy's open AI Passport template.
About fifteen minutes. The full guide, with commands, is in the README.
Save a copy of the badge's original firmware, then flash BadgeMic with esptool over USB-C.
Open the DMG, then install the virtual microphone and allow Accessibility from inside the app.
Enter the 6-digit code shown on the badge, choose your dictation tool's hotkey, and set its microphone to BadgeMic Microphone.
Fill in your name and contact details, add a photo, and upload. Tap OK to flip between pages.
Not yet. BadgeMic is a Mac app; the badge talks to it over Bluetooth LE.
No. It only pairs with your Mac. There is no cloud service behind BadgeMic.
Any tool that starts listening on a hotkey and lets you choose its microphone. Many tools have their own microphone setting, so pick BadgeMic Microphone there.
Yes. Write your backup back to the badge, or follow FoloToy's restore guide. Never run erase_flash: it removes the device identity.
No. It is a community project built on FoloToy's open-source template and is not supported by FoloToy.
It is a separate chip. Write any link to it, such as your LINE or LinkedIn profile, with a phone app like NFC Tools. Don't lock it.