Works anywhere
you can type.
TalkKey lives in the menu bar and types into the app you're already using — no plugins, no integrations to set up.
TalkKey turns your voice into text wherever your cursor already is — Slack, Mail, your editor, a terminal. Nothing leaves your Mac unless you ask it to.
The audio engine is prepared once when TalkKey launches, so pressing the key starts recording immediately — no clipped first words, no waiting for the microphone to wake up.
Installed · 486 MB
Best accuracy, slowest · 1.5 GB
also heard as: плейрайт, play right
Corrected automatically
Each mode has its own key. Your hands never leave the keyboard, and you decide what happens the moment you let go.
Let go and the text is typed where you were already working. It lands in your clipboard first, so a failed paste never costs you the words.
See the transcription first, edit it, and optionally restyle it — formal, casual, concise, bullet points — before it goes anywhere.
Talk in your own language and get the text in the one you need. Useful when you think faster than you translate.
Product names, colleagues, technical jargon — the words every dictation app mangles. Add them once and TalkKey gets them right.
Each term works twice: it primes the speech model before it listens, then repairs anything that still slips through. Plurals and inflections are left alone, so it fixes the word without breaking the sentence.
Every feature here exists because dictation breaks somewhere in real use. These are the fixes.
Whisper runs on your Mac. No account, no upload, no internet — your voice never leaves the machine.
Teach it the words it keeps getting wrong, with optional mishearings for the stubborn ones.
A small pill above the Dock. Click to start and stop, watch the waveform, switch language without opening a window.
Five Whisper models, 39 MB to 1.5 GB. See what each takes on disk, install and delete them freely.
Switch languages between recordings and TalkKey works out which one you spoke — offline too.
Every transcript hits the clipboard before it's typed. If a paste can't go through, a card hands it back to you.
Turn a rambling thought into a clean paragraph, a bulleted list, or a professional email.
Every transcription kept on your Mac, ready to copy again. Clear it whenever you like.
Signed, notarized, and updated in place. Lifetime updates, no subscription.
TalkKey lives in the menu bar and types into the app you're already using — no plugins, no integrations to set up.
Good prompts are long, and typing them is the bottleneck. Describe the change the way you'd explain it to a colleague, and let Claude Code, Cursor or Windsurf take it from there.
Put your stack in the dictionary and it will spell your framework names, file paths and libraries correctly every time.
No subscription. Buy it once and every future update is included.
Everything you need for private, on-device dictation.
Unlock every mode and support a one-person project.
Not in offline mode — the speech model runs locally and nothing is uploaded. Cloud mode is opt-in and uses your own OpenAI key, so audio goes only to OpenAI and nothing is stored by TalkKey.
No. Offline mode is the default and needs no key and no account. A key is only required if you choose Cloud mode or AI rewriting.
An Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer) running macOS 14 Sonoma or later. The app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without warnings.
Between 39 MB and 1.5 GB depending on which you install. The model library shows exactly what each one uses and lets you delete any of them at any time.
Yes. With auto-detect on you can switch languages between recordings without touching settings, and it works in offline mode too.
No. $15 once, and updates are included forever.
Free to use, works offline, installs in under a minute.
Download TalkKeyLicenses, bugs, feature requests — all welcome.
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