Pay once. Private. On-device. Unlimited dictation in 38 languages, and your text is ready to paste.
Hold a key, say what you mean, get the text. WalkAITalkie lives in your menu bar and turns speech into text on your Mac. Speech recognition and the language model run on the device. After the one-time model download it works offline.
I built it because I think faster than I type.
HOW IT WORKS
Hold the hotkey (fn + F5 by default, you can pick another function key), speak, release. The text is on your clipboard, and you paste it with ⌘V wherever you need it: mail, documents, chats, code editors, forms. Prefer hands-free? Toggle mode keeps recording until you press the key again or until you stop talking.
STAYS ON YOUR MAC
Audio and text stay on the Mac. No sign-up. The models come from a one-time download, after that WalkAITalkie needs no connection.
FORMATS
You always start from the transcript. Then you decide how much help it gets:
- Raw: exactly as spoken. Free.
- Clean Up: removes filler words, false starts and repetitions and fixes punctuation. It keeps your wording instead of rephrasing it. Free.
- Translate: speak one language, get the text in another, 38 languages to choose from. Pro.
- Email and To-do List. Pro.
- Session Notes for longer recordings. Pro.
- Your own formats, built step by step with the Format Assistant. Pro.
Pick the format in the menu before you speak, or convert a recording afterwards.
SESSION NOTES (PRO)
For a conversation on site, a talk or an interview. You get the transcript plus a recap, discussion points and action items, written on your Mac. With the speaker model turned on, WalkAITalkie tells up to 8 speakers apart. Every speaker gets a card with passages from the transcript, so you can put a name to them. Recording uses your Mac's microphone, so everyone has to be in the room. A session stops after two hours. Check names, numbers and who does what before you pass the notes on.
TWO SPEECH ENGINES
- Parakeet runs on the Neural Engine and covers 24 European languages (315 MB).
- WhisperKit covers the other languages, in several model sizes.
WalkAITalkie picks the engine for your language and shows what it picked. You can change it in Settings.
ALSO IN THE BOX
- Live preview with Parakeet: the words appear while you speak
- Custom dictionary for names and terms (Pro)
- History with search and CSV and JSON export
- iPhone as a microphone via Continuity
- VoiceOver labels for buttons and controls
- Starts with your Mac if you want it to
FREE
- Unlimited dictation on your Mac
- Raw and Clean Up
- Push-to-talk and toggle mode
- Automatic stop when you stop talking
- 38 speech languages
- History and export
PRO: ONE IN-APP PURCHASE, PAID ONCE
- Translate, Email, To-do List and your own formats
- Session Notes and telling speakers apart
- Custom dictionary
Requires a Mac with Apple Silicon and macOS 26 or later.
Terms of Use: https://walkaitalkie.com/terms
Privacy Policy: https://walkaitalkie.com/privacy
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What's new in 2.12.3
Fixes
- Turkish dictation now uses Whisper in Automatic mode. Before, Automatic sent Turkish to Parakeet, which does not support Turkish.
Changes
- In toggle mode, the Auto-Stop on Silence switch and its timing slider in Settings no longer require Pro.
Requires a Mac with Apple Silicon and macOS 26 or later.
Version 2.12.3
The developer, Bernhard Goetzendorfer, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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