Hear it. Say it. One app.
Text to speech + speech to text, in one app.
Local only. No subscription.
Download for macOS See it read Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later. Another platform?
Text to speech. Select, press ⌥⇧R. It reads.
Nothing selected? It reads what you last copied. A panel opens over the screen; set the speed and the voice to your taste, and close it with Esc.
The white in those portraits is powder, not a wig. Washington was a natural redhead who dusted his own hair to match the fashion of his rank.
The white in those portraits is powder, not a wig. Washington was a natural redhead who dusted his own hair to match the fashion of his rank.
Speech to text. Hold right ⌥ and talk.
Your speech lands at the cursor you're on.
Long day, and I nearly did not write anything.
Punctuation, casing and paragraph breaks are inferred as you speak, in whichever field already had focus.
No cloud. No subscription. No caps.
A one-time purchase that runs entirely on your own machine.
Everything happens on this Mac
Both directions run on your own hardware: the recogniser that hears you and the voice that reads to you. Nothing you say and nothing you read ever leaves the machine, because there is no cloud to send it to.
No subscription. No word caps.
Buy it once and it stays yours. Read and dictate as much as you like, for as long as you like.
31Languages
Read aloud and dictate in any of them, and switch without opening a settings window.
Bilingual-friendly
A passage that mixes two languages is read in both, switching voice mid-sentence. Declare the languages you use and it handles the rest.
Both directions. Nothing leaves the machine.
14 days to test every claim on this page.
Free for 14 days. No card, no account, ever.
Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later. Need another platform?