Hold To Talk
Voice to text for Apple Silicon Macs. Local Parakeet transcription by default, hardened cloud using your own key when you choose it. Hold a key, speak, release.
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Voice to text for Apple Silicon Macs. Local Parakeet transcription by default, hardened cloud using your own key when you choose it. Hold a key, speak, release.
Download for MacBuilt for privacy, speed, and simplicity.
No subscription, no paywall, no black box. Inspect the code, build it yourself, ship it your way.
Apple Silicon runs Parakeet locally with no account or tracking. Cloud transcription is optional and uses your own API key.
Powered by NVIDIA Parakeet TDT through sherpa-onnx for fast, accurate on-device transcription on Apple Silicon.
Dictate into Slack, Notes, your IDE, email, or any text field. If you can type there, Hold To Talk works.
Optional cleanup fixes punctuation and filler words via Apple Intelligence (on-device) or cloud models (OpenAI, Anthropic) with your own key.
Download directly, install via Homebrew, or build from source. Your workflow, your choice.
Cloud features are opt-in and locked down for direct provider connections.
OpenAI and Anthropic keys are stored in the macOS Keychain for this Mac only, not in plain text or iCloud Keychain.
Cloud base URLs must use HTTPS and cannot include embedded credentials, query strings, or fragments.
Cloud requests use an ephemeral session with no cookies and no disk cache for audio or transcript traffic.
Diagnostic logs are off by default, local only, and redact transcript content when troubleshooting is enabled.
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.