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Global hotkey
A native event tap catches the shortcut without pulling focus from your app.
Private dictation for macOS
Your voice.
Already there.
Hold a key. Speak naturally. Your words land wherever the cursor blinks.
On-device by default Under 10 ms to listen
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Try the real interaction
From voice to cursor.
Pick a shortcut, hold it, and watch the complete private dictation flow happen in the browser.
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Local draft## What changed
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Press and hold ⌥ L, speak, then release. Click this panel first to try the physical key.
Every app becomes voice-first.
No window to summon. TetherVoice follows your cursor across the tools you already use.
One gesture, start to finish
Four moments.
One uninterrupted thought.
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Hold
Your global shortcut wakes a warm microphone in under 10 milliseconds.
The first word stays intact. - 02
Speak
Talk naturally in prompts, notes, replies, or complete paragraphs.
No transcript window interrupts you. - 03
Release
Whisper or Parakeet turns speech into useful text directly on your Mac.
Your audio can remain local. - 04
Land
The sentence appears inside the app you were already using.
Focus and clipboard contents are restored.
Under the surface
Fast by design.
Private by default.
A short native path keeps latency low and your work in place. Nothing opens between your thought and the cursor.
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Always ready
Warm capture
The microphone is ready before you speak, so the beginning is not clipped.
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7 models
Local model
Choose among Whisper and Parakeet models that run directly on your Mac.
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Focus intact
Clean injection
Text lands at the cursor, then your previous clipboard contents return.
Local remains local
Pro dictation never requires cloud transcription, credentials, or cross-device sync.
Native, not heavyweight
Tauri 2 and Rust keep TetherVoice quiet in the menu bar and quick on the hot path.
Choose your boundary
Start private.
Add cloud only when you want it.
Every tier starts with fast on-device dictation. Pay for unlimited local freedom, or add a managed cloud when your words need to follow you between machines.
Free
$0forever
The complete local workflow, ten times each day.
- 10 successful dictations per local day
- Whisper Tiny and Base models
- Audio and history stay on your Mac
After dictation 10, recording locks until the next day, or until you upgrade.
Download freePro Most popular
$3/ month
Unlimited dictation with every model running locally.
- Unlimited local dictation
- Every Whisper model plus Parakeet
- On-device audio processing
- Searchable local history
- Custom dictionary and text cleanup
- Hold or toggle push-to-talk modes
- No cloud account needed while dictating
Fully local means no cloud transcription, API credentials, or cross-device sync.
Enterprise Full access
$10/ month
Local speed plus a managed cloud built into your account.
- Everything in Pro
- Managed cloud transcription
- Up to five included API credentials
- AI polish for cleaner final text
- Cloud-synced history and dictionary
- Local mode stays available at any time
- Promotion codes for future products
Cloud features send the data you choose to TetherVoice services; local mode stays available.
Ready when you are
Say it. It’s there.
Ten free on-device dictations every day. No account required.