Notes · Product sync
Action items
- Maya: ship syllabus draft by Friday
- Jordan: review budget line for lab kit
- You: send recap to #launch before noon
Talk through a meeting. You get the action items and who owns each one.
Private dictation for Mac
Speak it. It lands clean.
Talk the way you think. Voiceinator drops the ums, fixes the restarts, and types the clean version anywhere on your Mac. Nothing leaves your Mac.
Or paste this in Terminal
curl -fsSL https://voiceinator.com/install.sh | bash
Free. Apple Silicon (M1 or newer), macOS 14+. Install help.
Drag to spin him. Tap to make him talk.
FreePaid apps average $132 a year
0uploads. It stays on your Mac
Any appMail, Slack, Docs, your code editor
1 keyRight Option, or pick your own
How it works
Hold. Talk. Let go. That’s it.
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1
Hold Right Option
Or any key combo you like.
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2
Talk like normal
Ums, restarts and run-on sentences are fine.
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3
Let go
Clean text shows up where your cursor is.
Use cases
Say it instead of typing it
If you type it, you can say it. And since it all runs on your Mac, that includes the private stuff.
At work
- Email replies. Say the answer, get a finished email.
- Slack and Teams. Quick updates without stopping to type.
- Meeting notes. Talk through the call, get action items with names.
- Tickets and pull requests. Describe the bug out loud, get a clean write-up.
- Sales follow-ups. Recap the call while it’s still fresh.
School and teaching
- Lesson plans. Talk through tomorrow’s class, get an outline.
- Parent emails. Clear and kind, in about a minute.
- Grading comments. Say the feedback, it comes out tidy.
- Essay first drafts. Get the ideas down before they slip.
- Study notes. Turn a ramble into bullets.
Private work, any profession
- Visit notes. Say the summary after each visit. It stays on your Mac.
- Referral letters. Talk it through, get a clean letter to send.
- Client and case notes. Lawyers, therapists, advisors. The words stay on your Mac.
- HR and money. Reviews, budgets and anything you’d never paste into a chatbot.
- Works offline. No Wi-Fi? Still works.
Writing and life
- First drafts. Posts, chapters and scripts at talking speed.
- Social captions. Say it casual, keep it casual.
- Talks and sermons. Rough out the outline by saying it.
- Sore wrists. Type less on the days it hurts.
- Private notes. Journal, health, money. None of it leaves your Mac.
See it work
Pick one. Watch it tidy up.
Formal
Please find attached the revised proposal for next week’s review.
Casual
Hey, tossed the updated proposal in. Mind a look before Thursday?
Bullets
• Revised proposal attached
• Review before Thursday
• Flag blockers in thread
Short
Updated proposal ready for Thursday review. Call out blockers in the thread.
Say it once. Get it formal, casual, as bullets, or short.
New Message
To sam@school.edu
Subject Grant draft
You say
hey so um can you send me the thing for the grant like the draft whenever you get a chance thanks
It types
Hi Sam, could you send over the grant draft when you have a moment? Thanks so much.
A rambling thought becomes an email you’d actually send.
You
You
Heads up, the Q-SYS core reboot is at 6. I’ll post the Dante patch list after.
Message #studio-ops
Sounds like Slack. Product and brand names stay spelled right.
You say: “make this sound more confident without being salesy”
We’re ready to ship. The demo is solid, the story is clear, and the next step is yours when you want it.
Rewritten on your Mac
Highlight text, say what you want changed, and it rewrites it.
Rough draft
Our new app is really cool and helps you talk instead of type and its local!!
Cleaned up
Voiceinator turns speech into clean text on your Mac. It runs locally and it’s free. No subscription, and your audio stays put.
Clean up marketing copy without pasting it into a website.
⌥
Right Option
Default
⌃ ⌥
Your combo
Your choice
Right Option out of the box. Change it to anything.
Hold
Press, talk, let go. The mic is on only while you hold the key.
Tap
Tap once to start, once to stop. Good for long thoughts or pacing a room.
Two ways to turn it on. Both stay on your Mac.
The midterm review is Thursday at 2 in room 214.
A small bar shows it’s listening. Then the text appears.
Please revise the conclusion so it feels warmer. The results were fine overall.
Say it again
Rewrite selection
The results gave us a clear next step, and a little room to celebrate.
Highlight one sentence and fix just that. No starting over.
Privacy
Nothing leaves your Mac.
Your voice turns into text on your Mac, and the cleanup happens there too. Nothing gets uploaded, and it works offline.
- Speech to text runs on your Mac
- Cleanup runs on your Mac
- Your word list stays on your Mac
- Works without internet
- No monthly plan to keep paying
Specs
What your Mac needs
- Chip
- Apple Silicon, M1 or newer. Intel Macs aren’t supported.
- macOS
- 14 (Sonoma) or later.
- Memory
- 16 GB recommended. Voiceinator uses about 5 GB while it runs, so an 8 GB Mac will feel tight with other apps open.
- Storage
- About 6 GB for the app and its models. 2.9 GB more if you turn on the Accurate model.
- Internet
- Not needed to dictate. Only used for app updates and the optional Accurate download.
The models
- Speech to text: Whisper large-v3 turbo, 4-bit. Fast, and the default.
- Cleanup: Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct, 4-bit.
- Optional: Whisper large-v3, for long dictations. Slower, and a 2.9 GB download.
Both default models come inside the app and run on your Mac with Apple’s MLX.
For the fastest results
- Leave it running. The models stay loaded, so each dictation starts right away.
- Stick with the Fast model. Switch to Accurate only for dictations longer than about 15 seconds.
- Use 16 GB of memory or more, or close heavy apps on an 8 GB Mac.
- Turn off Low Power Mode. It slows the chip down.
- If cleanup takes longer than 1.5 seconds, you get your words as spoken, so you’re never left waiting.
Price
It’s free. Like, actually free.
Paid dictation apps cost about $132 a year, and a lot of them send your voice to the cloud. Voiceinator costs nothing and stays on your Mac.
The paid ones
About $132 a year
- A bill every month or year
- Cloud apps send your audio to their servers
- Some free tiers cap how much you can say
Average of the yearly Pro plans for Wispr Flow ($144), Aqua Voice ($96), Willow ($144) and Monologue ($144), from each app’s pricing page, October 2026.
Voiceinator
Free
- No account, no card
- Your audio stays on your Mac
- Works offline
Needs a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) and macOS 14 or later.
FAQ
Quick answers
- Is it really free?
- Yes. No account, no card, no trial.
- Which Macs does it run on?
- Macs with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) on macOS 14 or later.
- Which apps does it work in?
- Any app you can type in. The text goes wherever your cursor is.
- How do I set it up?
- Install it, then allow Microphone, Accessibility and Input Monitoring when your Mac asks. Quit and reopen it once, and you’re set.
- Does it need the internet?
- No. Both models come inside the app. The internet is only used for updates.
- Will it spell my names and jargon right?
- Add them to your word list: client names, course codes, Q-SYS, Dante. It uses the list every time.
- Can I change the key?
- Yes. Right Option is the default. You can pick any combo, and choose hold or tap.
- Why is the download so big?
- It’s about 4.4 GB because both speech models come inside the app. That’s also why it works offline.
Give your keyboard the day off.
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