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
I just wanted to quickly let you know that I unfortunately won't be able to make it to the meeting tomorrow afternoon.
Unfortunately I can't make tomorrow afternoon's meeting.
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
Let's finish the report, а потім зробимо перерву.
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
Could you send me the report by tomorrow?
¿Podrías enviarme el informe mañana?
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
i think we should of sent the report yesterday
I think we should have sent the report yesterday.
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
Them: "Can you walk me through how you'd scale this service?"
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
Decisions
Ship the billing fix before the release freeze.
Action items
Anna - draft the migration plan by Thursday
Unassigned - confirm the staging window
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
You: "Rewrite this paragraph so it fits in a changelog entry."
Sessions are searchable 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 Claude Code - 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