Draft the long message
The reply you’ve been avoiding. The weekly update. The first pass of a doc. Get your raw thoughts written down then edit.
Private Dictation for Mac
You think out loud.
Let the words keep up.
Talking is how most of us figure things out.
Private Dictation lets you speak out loud and turns that into text to easily copy into any app.
Typing is slower than speaking.
You already know what you want to say. The bottleneck is getting it onto the page before the thought moves on. Voice-to-text is significantly faster than typing and also comes out sounding much more natural.
Catch it before it’s gone
Ideas show up while you’re walking between meetings or rinsing a mug. One shortcut, say it, and it’s done. No “I’ll write that down later.”
Stay where you already are
Works in every app on your computer. You don’t open a special recorder or a website. You stay in the app you're already in and just speak. The text is written wherever you have currently selected or copied to your clipboard for easy pasting.
Give your hands a rest
A full afternoon of typing is a lot of small motions. Dictation is another way through the same work when your wrists are done.
Quickly say what you mean.
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Press ⌥Space
A global shortcut starts listening. Remap it if you like.
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Speak
English, Japanese, French, and many other languages are supported.
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Press again
Text is copied and pasted into the app you're using.
Private Dictation is the best choice
Once you want voice-to-text, you still have to pick a tool. Private Dictation is the one that never sends your voice anywhere, never collects your data, and that you only buy once without needing a subscription.
Your voice stays on the Mac
Recognition runs on-device with Whisper. There is no Private Dictation cloud. Audio is not uploaded and not used to train a model.
Works after the first setup, even offline
You download a speech model once at install time. Afterwards, you can run fully offline.
A "it just works" menu-bar utility, not a complicated system
One global shortcut. No project files, no “sessions,” and no website to keep open. Press the shortcut, speak, press the shortcut again. Easy!
Buy once, use forever
A one-time Mac App Store purchase. No trial that expires, no subscription license, no monthly reminder.
Ready when the sentence is.
If you’ve been meaning to try dictation, start here. Private Dictation lives in the menu bar on Apple Silicon Macs.
Continue to the App Store