Voice Dictation for Mac

Hold. Speak. Release.

Your words appear at your cursor. Nothing leaves your Mac — ever.

Buy SpokenKey — $29One-time purchase. No subscription.

Right Option, Right Command, Fn, F5, or F6 — your choice.

Record for up to 10 minutes. Optionally see text appear as you speak.

Text appears at your cursor, copies to clipboard, or saves to a file — your choice.

Built different.

Not another Whisper wrapper. SpokenKey uses NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT model and injects text directly via macOS keyboard events.

privacy

Zero network calls for transcription. Your audio never leaves your machine. No telemetry, no analytics, no cloud.

output

Paste directly at your cursor, copy to clipboard, or save to a file. In live preview mode, text is typed without touching your clipboard at all.

history

Every dictation is logged with timestamps. When AI cleanup runs, both the raw and cleaned versions are saved for easy recovery.

ai_cleanup

Optional post-processing via Ollama + Llama 3.2. Fixes grammar and punctuation without sending anything to the cloud.

hotkey

Choose from 5 presets: Right Option, Right Command, Fn (Globe), F5, or F6. Hold to record, release to stop. Simple.

voice_cmds

Say "new paragraph", "bullet point", or "comma" \u2014 they become formatting. Say "delete that" to erase the last dictation.

Built-in dictation works for short bursts. Cloud apps charge monthly. SpokenKey is built for real work.

One-time purchase

$29

All features. Free updates. No subscription.
14-day money-back guarantee.

Requires macOS 13+ (Ventura or later)

Apple Silicon or Intel Mac

Homebrew + sox (brew install sox)