Germany-based. GDPR-Compliant by design.AI Voice Typing for Mac
Dictāta turns speech into clean, formatted text in any Mac app. Use Cloud mode, or run speech recognition on your Mac with Local mode.
Downloaded from this website as a .dmg installer, not from the Mac App Store.
What Dictāta does on your desktop
Dictate into any app
Press a hotkey, speak, and the text appears at your cursor in your email client, browser, editor or chat app.
Prompt Styles
Turn a spoken thought into an email, a bullet list or a ticket. Cloud mode, or Local mode with an optional on-device text model.
Translate while dictating
Speak in one language and get text in another at the cursor. This needs Dictāta Cloud.
Smart Glossary
Save names and terms once. In Local mode they are also passed to the speech decoder as hints.
Also in the desktop app (Cloud mode, beta): transcribe audio and video files up to 3 hours each. Read about File Transcription
Local mode: speech recognition on your computer
Local mode keeps recognition on your Mac, tested on an M1 MacBook.
- Speech recognition runs on your device with NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Streaming (28 languages).
- In our tests the final text appears about 120–200 ms after you stop speaking (Windows laptop CPU, M1 Mac, Google Pixel 9a).
- While Local is active, audio and dictated text are not sent anywhere. The app only allows sign-in, billing, model downloads and the version check.
- Included with the Lifetime license, every paid Cloud plan and the free trial.
- Current limit: spoken numbers are written as words for now. Chat, translation while dictating and Memory need Dictāta Cloud.
Dictāta Local requirements
- Platform
- macOS
- Speech model download
- about 475 MB
- Memory (RAM)
- 6 GB minimum, 8 GB recommended
- Free disk space
- about 1.2 GB
- GPU
- not required
Cloud mode needs an internet connection. Optional local text models are 1.1–3.3 GB each.
Frequently asked questions
No. You download the installer from this website. The page shows the install steps after the download starts.
Apple's Dictation guide describes inserting what you say, automatic punctuation in supported languages and the choice of on-device or server processing. It does not describe custom vocabulary or translation while dictating. Dictāta adds Prompt Styles, a Smart Glossary, translation (Cloud) and a Local mode.
Yes, in Local mode. Speech recognition runs on your device after a one-time model download of about 475 MB. Cloud mode, chat, translation while dictating and Memory need an internet connection.
28 languages with the NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Streaming model. Cloud mode supports more; see the supported languages in the docs.
Yes. Local mode is included in the free trial, the Lifetime license and every paid Cloud plan. Current prices are on the pricing page.