A hand on a key, lips mid-word and a glowing laptop screen

How it works

Hold. Talk. It's typed.

Three steps you can feel, and the engineering underneath them.

Hold

A global shortcut wakes the microphone: ⌥Space or the Globe key on a Mac, Right Ctrl (or Ctrl+Space) on Windows, or any key you record. The overlay shows a live level meter so you know it is listening. Double-tap to latch and talk hands-free.

Talk

Audio goes into an on-device speech model running on your own processor, on a Mac or a PC. Voice activity detection trims silence; your vocabulary biases spelling toward the names you taught.

It's typed

Release, and the finished text is typed at the cursor through the operating system's input layer, then your clipboard is restored. Optional transforms rewrite it on the way through.

What never happens

No audio upload, for dictation or meetings. No account required to dictate. No browser extension. No analytics on what you said. Pro's AI features (meeting summaries and Cloud Polish) need an account and send text only, to Vaitly's server, which uses OpenAI.