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Push-to-talk Mac dictation. Hold a key, speak, release — Speechcap captures your raw speech, AI-cleans the fillers, and types flawless text into any app. Transcription and cleanup both run on-device on Pro — from $3/month.

macOS · Apple Silicon & Intel·Free tier included · Pro from $3/mo
􀣺MailFileEditViewWindowHelpF􀋙􀋊9:41

Re: Q4 launch sync

Holdto dictate
Fig. 01 · Idle · waiting for hotkeyFloats above any window — never steals focus
01How it works

Hold. Speak. Released text appears in your field.

No window to open, no recordings to transcribe later. Push-to-talk, like a walkie-talkie for writing.

Step 01
Listening

Hold the key.

Right Option by default — or fn, ⌘, or Caps Lock. Whatever you'll never press by accident.

Step 02

Speak naturally.

Filler words, restarts, second thoughts — all fine. Speechcap cleans them up.

Step 03⌘V
Push the launch sync to ThursdaySlack

Release. Done.

Text is pasted right where your cursor was. No window-switching, no copy-paste dance.

02Private by design

Built for privacy. Built for security. Your words never leave your Mac.

Most dictation apps push your audio to one cloud for transcription, then send the transcript to another for AI polishing. Speechcap Pro can do both on-device — Whisper for speech, a small on-device LLM for cleanup. No round-trips, no exposure, no internet required.

Your Mac
CaptureON-DEVICE
Audio held in memory only — never written to disk, never uploaded.
TranscribeON-DEVICE
Whisper Large v3 runs locally on Apple Silicon. “Push the launch sync to Thursday.”
Clean upON-DEVICE
On-device LLM strips fillers, fixes punctuation, formats for context. “Let’s push the launch sync to Thursday.”
TypeON-DEVICE
Pasted at your cursor in whichever app was focused — Slack, Mail, Cursor, Notion.
Cloud
0 bytes sent
Transcription on-device
Whisper Large v3 runs locally on Apple Silicon. Real model, real quality — not a stripped-down on-device variant.
AI cleanup on-device — the part competitors don't
Wispr, Willow, Superwhisper, MacWhisper: their offline mode covers transcription, then a cloud LLM polishes the text. Speechcap runs cleanup on a local model too.
Works without internet
On a flight, in a SCIF, behind a corporate firewall — same experience. Toggle Wi-Fi off and dictate.
Nothing logged, nothing trained
Zero telemetry on the offline path. Your transcripts stay in your local history database — searchable by you, invisible to us.
Available on Pro · toggle in Settings › Transcription
Read the offline architecture deep-dive →
03Transforms

Don't just transcribe. Rewrite, in one keystroke.

Select text and press your hotkey to open the transform menu — or hold a letter while dictating to apply one on-the-fly.

􀣺NotesFileEditViewWindowHelpF􀋙􀋊9:41

Re: Q4 launch sync

Push the launch sync to Thursday afternoon to review the marketing plan before we ship.
Transform · 12 words
I
Improve
Polish wording
F
Formal
Polish for work
N
Friendly
Warm + casual
G
Fix grammar
Light copy edit
T
Translate…
89 languages
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I
Improve
Polish wording and flow without changing what you said. The everyday default.
F
Formal
Polish for client emails, reviews, anything that needs to read like work.
N
Friendly
Warm + casual. For DMs to your team, comments on PRs, soft asks.
G
Fix grammar
Light copy edit only. Keeps your voice, removes the typos.
T
Translate
89 languages. Speak English, paste Japanese.
R
Refine prompt
Reshape a rough ask into a precise prompt for ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
C
Custom
Type your own instruction. "Make it Hemingway," "as a haiku," whatever.
Mid-dictation transform

Hold , speak naturally, then tap a letter — F for Formal, I for Improve, T for Translate. Release the key and your transcript is rewritten before it ever lands on the page.

􀣺NotesFileEditViewWindowHelpF􀋙􀋊9:41

New note · Q4 launch sync

Holdto dictate
Idle · ready for hotkeyHold ⌥ · tap F mid-sentence · output is formalised
04Built for daily writing

The small things that make voice actually faster than typing.

Spoken · EN
Push the launch sync to Thursday.
Pasted · JA
木曜日にローンチ会議を移動しよう。
"Hello" · 12 of 89
HelloEN
你好ZH
こんにちはJA
HolaES
BonjourFR
안녕하세요KO
مرحباAR
नमस्तेHI
OláPT
HalloDE
ПривітUK
שלוםHE
+ 77 more
89 languages

Speak in any of 89 — paste in any of 89.

Auto-detects what you're saying. Translation is one keystroke away.

um so I think we should like, uh, push the launch sync sync to Thursday
Let's push the launch sync to Thursday.
Smart cleanup

Removes the ums. Keeps the you.

Filler words, restarts, false starts vanish. Smart punctuation. Context-aware formatting.

Speechcapflu-oh-cal
Anthropican-throw-pic
kubectlcube-cuttle
Söderbergsoh-der-berg
Vocabulary

It learns your jargon.

Names, acronyms, product codes — spelled how you spell them. Edit a dictated word once and Speechcap offers to remember it.

Privacy

Go fully private on Pro.

Cloud transcription out of the box. Switch to on-device Whisper on Pro — audio never leaves your Mac.

2:14pSlack42w
11:42aGmail87w
9:08aVS Code18w
YestNotion142w
History

Every word, searchable.

Filter by app, by date, by transform. Re-paste with one click.

"rocket emoji"🚀
"fire emoji"🔥
"check emoji"
"heart emoji"❤️
"five slash ten"5/10
"user underscore id"user_id
"two plus two"2 + 2
"v one point oh"v1.0
Speak the symbols

Say "rocket emoji", get 🚀. Say "release slash 5.0", get release/5.0.

Spoken-name substitution for emoji and punctuation runs deterministically — no AI call, no latency. Off by default for symbols (ambiguous), opt-in per-name.

05First run

From install to first sentence: under 90 seconds.

Four screens. Permissions, hotkey, a guided test, then you're typing with your voice.

2/4
Step 2 of 4

Pick your push-to-talk.

Hold this key to record, release to inject. Right Option is the default — most people never want to type it intentionally.

Right Option
Recommended
fn
fn / Globe key
Often unused
Right Command
Caps Lock (remapped)
Power user
01
Permissions
Mic, accessibility, input monitoring. Each explained. No dark patterns.
02
Hotkey
Pick the key you'll hold. Right Option is the default — most people never type it.
03
Test it
Hold the key, say something out loud, see the result.
04
You're in
Open any app and start dictating. Onboarding doesn't come back.
"I haven't typed a Slack message
in three weeks. I just hold a key and talk."
AT
Alex Tran · Engineering · early access
06Pricing

From $3 a month. Half the price of Wispr Flow, with on-device AI cleanup.

Free is meaningfully useful — 2,000 words a month, raw transcription. Pro unlocks unlimited dictation, AI cleanup, transforms, translation in 89 languages, and on-device Whisper.

Free
$0forever
  • 2,000 words / month
  • Cloud transcription · 89 languages
  • Hold-to-talk hotkey
  • Cleanup (fillers + punctuation)
  • Custom vocabulary
  • Local history
Most popular
Pro
$6/ month
Everything in Free, plus
  • Unlimited dictation
  • Context-aware AI cleanup
  • Transforms menu (improve, formal, translate, refine prompt…)
  • In-flight transforms while dictating
  • Always-on translation
  • On-device Whisper (offline & private)
  • Priority support
No card required

Questions, briefly.

Does it work offline?+

On Pro, yes — on-device Whisper transcribes without a network. The Free tier and Pro cloud mode both need an internet connection.

Will it leak audio?+

Free and Pro cloud mode send audio to our transcription provider over an encrypted connection — it's discarded immediately after transcription. On Pro on-device mode, audio never leaves your Mac.

What about privacy with the Cloud model?+

Audio is encrypted in transit and at rest. We never train on your data. We don't share with third parties.

Can I use it without a hotkey?+

Yes — toggle "tap to start" in Settings. We default to push-to-talk because it's less ambiguous about when we're listening.

Windows or Linux?+

Mac only today (Apple Silicon and Intel). Windows is next on the roadmap; Linux after that.

Stop typing. Start saying it.

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