Maya Chen 2:14 PM
Is the pricing page ready for review?
Talk instead of type in every app you use.
Hold one key, say what you mean, let go — the words are pasted where your cursor is. Runs on your Mac and works offline. Free and open source.
Alpha · Apple Silicon · macOS 13 or later · Release notes · Windows is on the roadmap
On your phone? Vocet runs on a Mac.
Priya
Can you look at the onboarding copy before Friday?
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Message #design-reviewYes, I’ll review the onboarding copy tomorrow morning and send notes by noon.
Right ⌥
Enter to send
Wherever you’d type
# launchPricing page and launch prep
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Daniel Ortiz 2:15 PM
Same question — sales wants to share it today.
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Message #launchAlmost — the copy is final and I’m swapping in the new screenshots now. I’ll post the link here this afternoon.
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Reply without breaking flow
Hold the key in the message box, talk, let go. The text is pasted, ready to send.
New message
ToSSam Rivera
SubjectRe: Quick turnaround on the notes?
Compose your replyHi Sam, Thanks for the quick turnaround. I’ve attached the notes from today; the two open questions are at the top.
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SendA⌘⧉
Paragraphs, not just phrases
Dictate a whole paragraph in one hold.
GOALS
- Fewer choices before the first dictation
- Clearer help when a permission fails
WHY THIS QUARTER
Type or dictate…The main goal next quarter is helping new users reach their first dictation faster. Three ideas follow, ranked by effort.
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Talk through a first draft
Get the shape of a document down, then edit with the keyboard.
I need a test plan for our onboarding.
Sure. What should the test plan cover?
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Ask anythingWrite a short test plan for the onboarding flow: one happy path, then what happens when the microphone is denied.
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Explain the task out loud
Spoken prompts tend to carry more context than typed ones.
Choose where your speech is turned into text
On this Mac
A speech model runs on your Mac. Download it once; after that dictation works offline and audio never leaves your computer.
- English: fast, a one-time 477 MB download (Parakeet)
- Other languages: a multilingual model (Qwen3-ASR)
- No API key needed
- Needs disk space and an Apple Silicon Mac
Your own cloud key
Paste a Groq or OpenAI API key. Audio goes straight from your Mac to that provider — never through a server of ours.
- Key stored in your macOS Keychain
- The provider may charge for usage on your account
- Needs internet
You can switch between the two any time in Settings.
How is this different from the Mac’s built-in dictation? You choose the speech model — one on your Mac, or your own Groq or OpenAI key — you dictate by holding a single key, and every line of the code is open to check.
Setup ends with your first real dictation
- 1Allow two permissionsMicrophone, and Accessibility to paste at your cursor — it doesn’t read your screen. The model downloads meanwhile.
- 2Pick your dictation shortcutRight Option (⌥) by default, or record a different key.
- 3Say a sentenceIt’s recorded, transcribed and pasted — so you know it all works.
Where your data goes
Usage and error events are on by default
Anonymous events go to PostHog and error reports to Sentry, so we can see where setup and dictation break. Events include which app you dictated into (for example, Slack), so we know where pasting needs work. Turn them off on the first setup screen, or any time in Settings → Privacy.
Never sent
- Audio
- Transcripts or anything you type
- API keys
Free, open source, and yours to inspect
Read every line, report a problem or send a pull request. MIT licence.
Download only from vocetlabs.com or the project’s GitHub releases.