Hold To Talk

Voice to text, entirely on your Mac. Hold a key, speak, release. Free, open-source, and completely private.

macOS 15+ · Apple Silicon · brew install jxucoder/tap/holdtotalk

Why Hold To Talk

Built for privacy, speed, and simplicity.

No subscription, no paywall, no black box. Inspect the code, build it yourself, ship it your way.

Your speech stays on your Mac. No cloud upload, no account, no tracking. Audio never leaves the device.

Dictate into Slack, Notes, your IDE, email, or any text field. If you can type there, Hold To Talk works.

Optional on-device text cleanup fixes punctuation and filler words with a customizable prompt.

Download directly, install via Homebrew, or build from source. Your workflow, your choice.

Three steps. No setup beyond permissions.

Press and hold your hotkey to start recording

Say what you want to type while the indicator shows

Let go and your words appear in the active app

Apache 2.0 licensed. Easy to inspect, fork, and build yourself.

      $ git clone https://github.com/jxucoder/hold-to-talk.git

      $ cd hold-to-talk

      $ make build && make run