Voice-to-text for macOS

Voice-to-text,that understands

Hold Fn to talk, or double-tap Fn to toggle. Your words are transcribed, cleaned up in context, and pasted into the active app — all in under a second.

Universal binary — Apple Silicon + Intel · Signed & notarized · MIT licensed

$0forever · no subscription
<1sfrom speech to paste
0data retained by us
Features

Dictation that
gets you.

Voxa Voice reads your screen, understands your context, and types for you. Built for people who think out loud and want their Mac to keep up.

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Context-aware transcription

Voxa reads the frontmost app, window title, and selected text to spell names correctly and match tone. Replying to an email? It knows who. Dictating into a terminal? It formats like a command.

100%context accuracy
How it works

Download.Key.Talk.

Shortcuts
Global network sphere

Your keys,
your rules.

Two defaults out of the box, infinite combinations if you want. Hold, toggle, or chain them. Every shortcut is rebindable from Settings.

Default — hold mode
Fn
Hold to talk

Press and hold the globe/Fn key. Voxa records while the key is down, transcribes on release, and pastes straight into the active field.

Toggle mode
Fn·Fn
Double-tap Fn to start, double-tap again to stop — for longer dictation.
Hands-free

Start in hold mode, then double-tap to latch into toggle mode — without stopping the recording.

hold
FnHold to talk
toggle
Fn · FnDouble-tap to toggle
custom
⌥ SpaceOr rebind anything
custom
⌃ ⇧ VHold-to-tap chain
custom
F5Single-key recall
custom
Right ⌘One-handed dictation
Hands-free assistant

Just say
“Hey Voxa.”

Skip the keys. Say the wake word and Voxa wakes up, reads your active window, and does what you asked — using the full context of whatever you’re looking at.

Wake word
HeyVoxa

Always listening for the trigger when the app is running. Nothing is sent anywhere until Voxa hears its name.

Voxa reads the active window via macOS Accessibility — only after you call it by name.

LIVE

Under-a-second
pipeline.

0kHz
Mono WAV capture
AVAudioEngine · low-latency
speech → cleanup → paste
End-to-end latency
<0s
global hotkey · anywhere in macOS
Clicks to start
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HotkeyManagerAudioRecorderRecordingOverlayTranscriptionServicePostProcessingServiceAppContextService
Works everywhere

Every app,
every text field.

Voxa Voice types via the macOS Accessibility API. If you can type into it, you can dictate into it — with context-aware cleanup tuned to whatever you have open.

Email
Mail
Chat
Slack
Shell
Terminal
Messaging
iMessage
Code
VS Code
Writing
Notes
Docs
Docs
Fallback
Any text field
ContextReads window title & selected text
SpellingFixes names from email recipients
ToneAdapts to terminal, chat, or docs
View on GitHub
Privacy

Your voice,
your data.

Voxa Voice was built so you never have to think about where your words go. No accounts, no history, no analytics — your voice gets turned into text, and that's the end of the story.

Privacy by design
0Accounts · logs · trackers · subscriptions
Local-firstMIT LicenseNo telemetryNo accounts

No accounts, no sign-up

No email, no login, no telemetry. The app never asks who you are — it just turns your voice into text and gets out of the way.

Audio stays ephemeral

Recordings live only long enough to be transcribed, then they're discarded. Nothing is saved to disk, nothing is queued for analytics.

Zero retention

Voxa keeps no server logs because Voxa has no server. Transcripts exist only in the app you pasted them into — nowhere else.

Permissions you can see

Only microphone and accessibility access — granted by you, revocable at any time in System Settings. Nothing hidden, nothing sneaky.

Built for Mac

Native Swift.
Feels like macOS.

A real Mac app — universal binary, menu-bar native, notch-aware. MIT licensed, built for people who live on their keyboard.

Native Swift

Built directly on AVAudioEngine, ScreenCaptureKit, and SwiftUI. No Electron, no web shell, no battery tax.

Menu bar only

Lives in your menu bar. No dock icon, no window clutter. It's there when you hold the key, invisible when you don't.

Notch-aware overlay

The recording indicator hugs the notch on newer Macs and tucks into the menu bar on older ones. Designed for macOS, not ported to it.

MIT licensed

Use it at work, bundle it with your team, ship it in your stack. No strings attached.

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Testimonials

Loved by early adopters.

Fn-to-talk is unreasonably fast. I hold it, I speak, and my words just appear in the right place. It's the feature my Mac has been missing for years.
A

Arjun Mehta

Senior Developer, Early user

<1sSpeech to paste
Beta users

Stop paying for
dictation.

Download the .dmg, drag it into Applications, and hold Fn. That’s the whole setup. No account, no subscription, no friction.

macOS 13+ · Universal binary · MIT License