Voice-to-text for Mac, fully local, no cloud
Evoglyph transcribes your speech and edits the result entirely on your device using the Apple Neural Engine. No audio leaves your Mac. No subscription required — own it for $20, once.
Download for MacRequires Apple Silicon (M1 or later) · macOS 14.2 Sonoma or later
What is voice to text on Mac?
Voice to text (also called speech-to-text or dictation) turns your speech into typed text in any app on your Mac. Press a hotkey, speak, and the text lands wherever your cursor is: an email, a document, a chat, a code editor, a terminal.
Modern voice to text on Mac goes beyond transcription. Tools like Evoglyph add an AI editing pass that removes filler words, fixes punctuation, and formats the result, so you get clean text instead of a raw transcript.
The key question for any voice to text tool is where processing happens: on your Mac or on a server. Cloud-based tools send your audio to remote servers for transcription. On-device tools run the speech model locally, so round-trips are faster and no audio leaves your machine.
How Evoglyph works
Evoglyph's pipeline runs entirely on your Mac in three steps:
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Press your hotkey and speak
Press the configurable hotkey (default: the Fn/Globe key), speak naturally, then release. Evoglyph records directly from your Mac's microphone; nothing streams to a server.
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Local voice-to-text and AI editing on the Apple Neural Engine
A Parakeet speech model running on the Apple Neural Engine transcribes the audio. The raw transcript then goes through an in-process AI editing pass (a 2.6B-parameter model, quantized to run fast on Apple Silicon) that removes filler words, adds punctuation, and reformats the text. Neither step touches the cloud.
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Text injection into the active app
Evoglyph injects the clean, formatted text into whatever app has focus, using one of three strategies: AXUIElement splice for native Mac apps, keystroke injection for terminals, and pasteboard insertion for browser and Electron apps. Set each app's strategy in the text injection settings.
Evoglyph vs Apple Dictation
Apple Dictation is built into macOS. Here is how the two compare for daily use:
| Feature | evoglyph | Apple Dictation |
|---|---|---|
| On-device on Apple Silicon | Yes 1 | Yes, on Apple Silicon 2 |
| Automatic punctuation and editing | Yes: AI editing pass removes filler words, adds punctuation, reformats text 1 | Auto-punctuation in supported languages; otherwise requires spoken commands (say "period", "new line") 2 |
| Configurable per-app text injection | Yes: three injection strategies configurable per app (AXUIElement, keystroke, pasteboard) 1 | Standard system text insertion; no per-app configuration |
| Editing mode customization | Yes: editable AI cleanup prompt, per-app modes | No AI editing pass; transcription only |
| Price | From $2/month, or a $20 one-time lifetime purchase; 3,000-word free trial (no time limit) | Free (built into macOS) |
1 Evoglyph architecture: Where your audio goes.
2 Apple Dictation on-device processing on Apple Silicon: Apple support page. Retrieved 2026-06-06.
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Download for MacApple Silicon (M1 or later) · macOS 14.2+