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Talk. It types.

AI dictation for macOS. Speech-to-text runs locally on your Mac, nothing leaves your machine. Optional AI cleanup via OpenAI, Anthropic, or Ollama.

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macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · Free & Open Source

Yapper classic recording window

How it works

Whisper handles transcription on your Mac. An LLM cleans it up if you want.

Nothing leaves your Mac

Whisper transcribes locally. Your audio stays on disk. Cloud AI is opt-in, not the default.

Whisper, locally

Runs OpenAI's Whisper models right on your machine. Multiple sizes from tiny to large, pick what fits.

Optional AI rewrite

Send the transcript through GPT, Claude, or a local Ollama model to clean up tone, grammar, formatting.

Reads the room

Knows your clipboard, selected text, and what app you're in. The AI uses that context to write better.

One hotkey, any app

Option+Space from anywhere. Talk, stop, text shows up at your cursor. That's the whole workflow.

Modes for everything

Email tone, casual messages, meeting notes, code comments. Six built-in, build your own on top.

+ Space

From anywhere on your Mac. Talk, it types, you move on.

Say it differently every time

Same hotkey, different output depending on what you need.

Voice to Text Straight transcription, no processing local
Email Turns rambling into a proper email AI
Message Keeps it casual, just cleans up the rough edges AI
Note Turns your stream of consciousness into bullet points AI
Meeting Pulls out action items, decisions, who said what AI
Super Looks at what app you're in and writes accordingly AI

Works with what you've got

Plug in an API key or run a model on your own hardware.

OpenAI
Anthropic
Gemini
Ollama
Whisper