Utter types what you say into any app on your Mac. It removes the ums, adds the punctuation, and does it all on your Mac, so your audio never leaves.
Download for MacUtter lives in the menu bar, so you never switch windows or paste.
Hold Right ⌥, say what you want to write, and let go. The text appears at your cursor.
Talk as long as you like. Tap again, or click the orb's ×, to stop.
Three taps remove the last dictation.
It types into any text field, right at your cursor.
Fix a word twice and Utter spells it your way from then on.
Everything you've dictated stays on your Mac, ready to copy again.
No quota and no subscription.
If no text field has focus, your words wait for ⌃⌘V.
Right ⌥ by default. Change it, and the paste shortcut, in Settings.
Turn it on and your Mac's sound goes quiet while you dictate.
Switch in Settings without restarting.
MIT licensed. Every line is on GitHub.
Say "Thursday, no wait, Friday" and it types Friday.
um so can we move the call to Thursday no wait Friday
okay so the the new pricing page uh looks great lets ship it
Basic cleanup is on by default and needs no AI. AI cleanup is optional and runs on your Mac with Qwen 2.5, or in the cloud with your own OpenRouter key.
Phonon, running on Apple's MLX, turns 7.6 seconds of speech into text in about 0.15 seconds. Whisper handles the languages Phonon doesn't cover. Cleanup runs on your Mac too, and after a one-time model download everything works offline.
The microphone is on only while you hold the key, or after a double-tap.
Phonon for English and 24 European languages, Whisper for the rest.
Basic cleanup, or Qwen 2.5 if you turn AI cleanup on.
At your cursor in Mail, Slack, Notes, your browser or your code editor.
Utter picks the speech model for the language you choose in Settings.
Phonon-2 for English and Phonon-2.5 for 24 other languages, about 160 MB each. Fermion Research reports 5.21% word error on the Open ASR Leaderboard's English tests, against 6.58% for Whisper Large v3 Turbo.
Whisper Large v3 Turbo covers the rest. Choose your language in Settings to use it.
You can be dictating about a minute after you open it.
Open the disk image and drag Utter into Applications.
macOS says it can't verify the app. Click Done, then go to
System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open AnywayThe key and the typing need it. Utter starts listening as soon as you allow it.
Allow the microphone. The speech model, about 160 MB, downloads the first time.
Yes. It's open source under the MIT License, with no account, subscription or word limit. If you use the optional cloud cleanup, you bring your own OpenRouter key and pay OpenRouter directly.
macOS Dictation types what you said, word for word. Utter also drops fillers, follows corrections, adds punctuation and learns how you spell names. You can use any key, it keeps a history, and there's no time limit.
Only to download the models the first time: about 160 MB for speech (646 MB for languages Phonon doesn't cover) and, if you turn on AI cleanup, 1.7 to 4.3 GB. After that it works offline.
Utter is signed ad hoc and not notarized by Apple, which needs a paid developer account. macOS asks you to confirm it once in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. The source is on GitHub if you'd like to check it.
To notice the dictation key in any app and to put the text at your cursor. It also reads that text field right after a dictation, to learn from fixes you make. None of it leaves your Mac.
English and 24 European languages with Phonon, and Hindi, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and others with Whisper. Auto-detect covers Phonon's languages. For the others, choose your language in Settings.
No. The speech and cleanup models run on Apple's MLX and Core ML, which need an M-series chip.
Only the text of your dictation, to the OpenRouter model you pick, for cleanup. Your audio and the speech recognition stay on your Mac. Without a key, nothing leaves it.
Quit it from the menu bar and move Utter to the Trash. To remove its models, settings and history too, delete the .dictateai folder in your home folder.
Your download has startedNext, open it, drag Utter to Applications, and allow it once in Privacy & Security.
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