Private dictation for Mac
Type at the
speed of thought.
Hold a key, speak, and release. A speech-to-text model and a guarded local language model run on your Mac, then the result lands at your cursor in any app. No account required.
Free and unlimited. Models download once, then work offline. Requires an Apple silicon Mac with macOS 14+.
Speech, polished
Talk like you talk. Read like you wrote.
Speakist removes safe fillers, expands common casual speech, and cleans up punctuation locally. Model output must preserve your words or Speakist falls back to deterministic rules.
What you said
hey um can you send me that report from yesterday i think it had the q3 numbers the one we were talking about with sarah
What appears
Hey, can you send me that report from yesterday? I think it had the Q3 numbers — the one we were talking about with Sarah.
What you said
uh okay so the deploy is going to get pushed to friday because the staging tests aren’t ready yet and i don’t want to like rush it
What appears
The deploy is going to get pushed to Friday because the staging tests aren’t ready yet, and I don’t want to rush it.
What you said
thanks for sending those over i’ll take a look this afternoon and uh get back to you by end of day with any questions
What appears
Thanks for sending those over. I’ll take a look this afternoon and get back to you by end of day with any questions.
What's different
Built for people who want a tool, not a platform.
Built-in dictation has been a half-finished feature for years. Speakist does one thing well: private, fast dictation on your Mac, with no account or hosted transcription service.
Better than built-in.
Apple’s dictation hasn’t gotten meaningfully better in years — hit-or-miss accuracy, awkward punctuation, no polish. Speakist runs multi-stage state-of-the-art models, so the text reads like you meant it.
Works offline.
The models download during setup. After that, local transcription and cleanup need no connection and have no per-word limit.
One gesture. Any app.
Hold ⌃⌘X anywhere on your Mac, speak, then release. No AI chat window and no prompt-writing workflow.
Your voice stays on your device.
Dictation audio, transcript text, vocabulary, and usage data stay on your Mac. Only model downloads and app update checks use the network.
How it works
Three motions. No UI to learn.
Set one global shortcut, then use the same hold, speak, release gesture anywhere on your Mac.
- ⌃⌘X01
Hold.
Put your cursor where you want text, then hold ⌃⌘X or the shortcut you chose.
- 02
Speak.
Say what you want to write. Speakist transcribes as fast as you release.
- Let me double-check that number.03
Release.
Locally cleaned text lands at your cursor. No confirmation step. Keep typing.
Stop typing at the speed of your fingers.
Install on your Mac and start dictating. On-device transcription and cleanup are free, unlimited, and account-free.