Get ready for blazing fast transcription.
Hold a key in any Mac app, say what you mean, and clean, punctuated text appears where your cursor is. Made only for the Mac, and it runs on your Mac's own chip. What you say never leaves your computer. No Wi-Fi? No problem.
Try it free, no card required.
7-day free trialWorks offlinemacOS 26 Tahoe, Apple silicon
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Hold Right ⌥ and talk. Let go, and it's typed.
Or tap once to start and tap again when you're done.
Types wherever your cursor is
Speech recognition and cleanup both run on your Mac, so SpeedOfTalk works on a plane, on hotel Wi-Fi that won't connect, and on locked-down work networks. Nothing you say is sent anywhere, because there's nowhere to send it.
Speaking is about three times faster than typing, but nobody talks in finished sentences. SpeedOfTalk keeps your words, drops the ums, and gets the punctuation right.
Fillers go and punctuation goes in. Simple corrections like "Tuesday, no wait, Thursday" are tidied up too. Anything it isn't sure about stays exactly as you said it.
Dictate into Mail and get a greeting, paragraphs and a sign-off, without saying "new line".
Most dictation apps send your voice to their servers, and some capture your screen for context. SpeedOfTalk has no server to send anything to.
No internet, no problem. Turn Wi-Fi off and keep talking.
Never with anything you said or typed.
Details are in the privacy policy.
Your voice is processed on your Mac, so SpeedOfTalk costs us nothing to run for you. That's why it doesn't need a subscription.
Launch price
$19.95 $9.95 once
Launch price until 15 November 2026. Then $19.95.
Prices in US dollars; tax may be added at checkout.
once, ever
over three years, billed yearly
| SpeedOfTalk | Wispr Flow Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.95 once | $15/month or $144/year |
| Your voice goes to | Nowhere | Their servers |
| Account | None | Required |
| Works offline | Yes | No |
Wispr Flow prices from wisprflow.ai/pricing, October 2026. Full comparison, including what Wispr Flow does better.
Add names, products and jargon to your dictionary, so "Siobhan Nguyen" stops coming out as "Sioban Wynne".
Say a short cue to insert text you use all the time: a booking link, your address, a sign-off.
"my calendar link"Smart also lays out emails and tidies simple corrections. Light only removes the ums. Turbo pastes exactly what you said.
If cleanup would ever drop a "not", "never" or "can't", SpeedOfTalk pastes your own words instead.
Tap the key once to keep listening while you pace around the room. Tap again to finish.
Hold Shift with your key, or end with a phrase you choose, and SpeedOfTalk presses Return after pasting. Your prompt goes straight to the AI.
Every dictation, kept on your Mac so you can find it and copy it again. Off whenever you like.
Right ⌥ by default, or Right ⌘, Right ⌃, fn, or a mouse button. Soft two-note and three-note chimes tell you it's listening and done.
In Terminal, iTerm2, Ghostty or Warp, text stays on one line, so prompts to Claude Code and other tools arrive intact.
Select text, hold your key and say "make this shorter" or "make it friendlier". Command Mode rewrites it in place, and ⌘Z puts it back.
Drop in a meeting, voice memo or video and get text, timestamps or subtitles, with speakers labeled if you like. Nothing is uploaded.
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents can transcribe files with SpeedOfTalk, right on your Mac. Add the ready-made skill from Settings in one click. How it works
Your words appear on the recording bar while you talk, so you know it's listening and getting it right.
Speech recognition takes about 0.1–0.2 seconds for a typical dictation, on your Mac's own chip.
7 days with every feature, no card. If you buy and change your mind within 14 days, you get your money back. More answers in Support.
SpeedOfTalk needs a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 26 Tahoe or later. Smart cleanup and Command Mode use Apple Intelligence, which has to be turned on in System Settings; without it, dictation still works with rule-based cleanup.
Yes. After two one-time steps, downloading the speech model on first launch and activating your license, SpeedOfTalk works with no connection at all: on a plane, on a train, or on a network that blocks outside services. Speech recognition and cleanup both run on your Mac.
25 European languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian.
There's nothing to set: it recognizes which one you're speaking each time, so you can switch between them. Cleanup and Command Mode work best in English. Other languages, such as Japanese, Chinese, Korean or Arabic, aren't supported at this time.
Dictation and file transcription pause and SpeedOfTalk asks for a license key. Your settings, dictionary and history stay where they are. Buy once and you're back in seconds.
Ask within 14 days of buying and we refund you in full, no questions: reply to your receipt or use the contact form. See the refund policy.
macOS only lets an app notice a key held in another app, and paste into it, with Accessibility permission. SpeedOfTalk uses it for exactly that: your hotkey, pasting, and reading selected text when you use Command Mode.
Yes, on up to 3 of your Macs at once. Moving to a new one? Remove the license on the old Mac first, or contact us and we'll move it. Buying for a team? Ask us for a team license.
No. SpeedOfTalk is made only for the Mac, to make the most of what Apple silicon can do on its own.
7 days free. Then $9.95 once, if it's faster than your keyboard.
