Voice to text in
any language.
Speak anywhere you can type. Press a shortcut, talk, and your words appear in whatever app you're using - typed, cleaned up, translated, or rewritten by voice.
Free 14-day trial · No account needed · Designed for Apple Silicon · macOS 26 or later
Everything runs on your Mac. Your voice never leaves it.
Speak anywhere you can type.
Email, docs, chat, code - wherever the cursor is, Dictera types your words straight in. Hold a key push-to-talk style, double-tap a modifier, or set any combo you like. No copy-paste, no switching apps.
- Push-to-talk, double-tap, or custom key combo
- Paste instantly or type character by character
- Auto-stop on silence, esc to cancel - all tunable
Say what to change. Watch it happen.
Select text in any app, hold a key, and tell Dictera what you want. It rewrites the selection right in place - shorter, friendlier, as bullet points, or as a drafted reply - using the same on-device AI.
- Any instruction goes - rewrite, rephrase, summarize, draft a reply
- Works wherever you can select text: email, docs, chat, code
- One tidy edit in place - a single undo reverts it
100% on your Mac.
Your voice never leaves it.
Speech recognition and AI run entirely on-device, on Apple Silicon. No cloud, no accounts, no API keys - and it all works offline.
It knows the language. Automatically.
No menus, no language to pick. Dictera detects what you're speaking as you speak - and you can even mix two languages in one sentence. It recognizes each word and types it out correctly, all on-device.
- Automatic language detection, or pin a language for extra accuracy
- Up to 100+ spoken languages, depending on the model you choose
Speak one language. Type another.
Set a translate shortcut and a target language, then talk in whatever language you like. Dictera inserts a clean translation - fillers removed, punctuation fixed - straight into any app. Entirely on your Mac, offline.
- 29 target languages, one shortcut away
- Separate shortcuts for dictation and translation
Fix and translate text you've already written.
Select any text in any app and press a shortcut: Dictera cleans up grammar, spelling, and punctuation right in place - one tidy edit you can undo. A second shortcut shows a clean translation in a floating panel. Same on-device models, same privacy.
- Correct Selection - fixes the text in place, undoable
- Translate Selection - instant translation into your language
One panel for the conversation you're in.
Press ⌘⌥H and a floating panel joins your call. It hears both sides through macOS itself - no bot joins the meeting, and nothing is uploaded when you use the built-in model.
Answers while you're still talking.
Dictera transcribes both sides live and drafts an answer when a question comes your way - automatically, or when you press ⌥⌘A from any app, so you're never seen clicking into a panel on camera.
- Answer any line in the transcript, however far back
- One-press rewrites: shorter, simpler, more detail, an example
- Templates for interviews, sales calls and standups
- Hidden from screen sharing, with a compact mode for crowded screens
The write-up, without a bot in your call.
Press Stop and Dictera writes the meeting up: summary, decisions, action items, open questions. Name the participants first and an action item can say who owns it - and where the meeting never said, it writes "Unassigned" rather than guessing.
- Also produces full minutes, a clean transcript, or chapters with times
- Notes take the shape of the session - meeting, lecture, one-on-one, interview, sales call
- Turn them into a recap email, action items, or notes by topic in one press
- Long meetings are read in passes, and say so when they cover only the recent stretch
- Connect your calendar and it knows which meeting this is, who was invited, and offers to record it as it starts
A private model, one shortcut away.
The third mode captures no audio at all - a typed conversation with whichever model you've chosen, including the one already running on your Mac. No browser tab, no account. Capture your screen and ask about what's on it.
- Nothing is listening - Chat never opens the microphone
- Answers in whatever language you type in
- Its own engine, independent of the other two modes
- Double-tap right ⇧ to ask one question without opening anything
Sessions are searchable, filed under the meeting they repeat, and stay on your Mac - or switch history off entirely. Every mode picks its own model: something fast and local for live answers, something larger for the write-up.
Four speech models. Your pick.
From Apple's system engine to the latest multilingual models from Nvidia and Alibaba - download the one that fits your languages and hardware, and switch anytime.
Apple Speech Analyzer
The system transcription engine. Realtime, low-power, maintained by macOS.
Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3
High-throughput multilingual recognition, running entirely on your Mac.
Nemotron 3.5 Streaming
Newest-generation streaming recognition with automatic language detection.
SenseVoice Small
Fast, lightweight recognition - great quality for its size.
Bring your own AI
Point cleanup, translation and each assistant mode at a local server, a cloud provider, or the Claude Code CLI - presets for all of them.
Built around how you work.
AI cleanup
An on-device model tidies punctuation and strips filler words before the text lands - your dictation comes out clean.
Voice commands
Say "new line", "comma", or "scratch that" - punctuation, breaks, and edits without touching the keyboard.
Vocabulary & replacements
Teach Dictera your names, jargon, and shortcuts so they always come out exactly right.
History
Every transcription saved locally - searchable, pinnable, exportable, with retention you control.
Statistics & weekly report
Words dictated, sessions, time saved - with an optional weekly summary of your dictation.
Localized interface
The whole app speaks your language - available in 11 interface languages, not just for dictation.
Try free for 14 days.
Then €5.99/month or €59.99/year. One license works on 3 Macs. Need more? There's an Enterprise plan for teams.
Start dictating today.
Free 14-day trial · Designed for Apple Silicon · macOS 26 or later