TetherVoice
Privacy-first voice dictation for macOS. Talk instead of typing: TetherVoice turns your speech into text and pastes it straight into whatever app you are focused on — your editor, terminal, browser, or anything else.
Key features
- On-device transcription
- Whisper and Parakeet run locally. Nothing is sent to the cloud, and it works offline.
- Universal text injection
- Transcribed text is pasted into whichever app is focused. Works everywhere, full Unicode.
- Sub-second latency
- From the moment you stop speaking to text on screen.
- Push-to-talk and toggle
- Hold a key to record, or press once to start and again to stop.
- Cloud transcription
- Optional Groq-powered mode covering 99+ languages with auto-detection.
- Custom dictionary
- Automatic replacements for the technical terms speech models get wrong.
- History and statistics
- Every transcription stored locally with timestamps, word counts and durations.
- AI text polish
- Optional clean-up with tone presets for commits, chat replies and agent prompts.
Continue reading
- InstallationDownload, install, and grant the two permissions TetherVoice needs.
- Getting startedFrom a fresh install to your first dictation.
- Transcription modesLocal models, cloud transcription, and how to choose.
- Recording modesPush-to-talk versus toggle.
- Text injectionHow transcribed text reaches your app, and what happens to your clipboard.
- The widgetThe floating pill, its states, and why it never steals focus.
- Custom dictionaryFix the technical vocabulary that speech models reliably mangle.
- History and statisticsEverything you have dictated, stored locally.
- Plans and limitsWhat Free, Pro, and Enterprise unlock.
- System requirementsWhat TetherVoice needs to run.