Dictation that weighs almost nothing.
Hold your shortcut and speak in any Mac app. Fast Talk turns your speech into clean, formatted text with zero lag, zero meeting bots, and zero memory bloat.
Say it once. Pick how it lands.
No floating recorder palettes to click. Fast Talk lives behind a single shortcut and flows directly into your cursor.
Hold & Speak
Press and hold your shortcut key (Fn or Right Option) in any Mac app. Speak as fast or as messy as your thoughts arrive.
Cleaned on Release
Release the key. Fast Talk strips filler words, removes stumbles, repairs self-corrections, and keeps your exact technical terminology.
Pasted at Your Cursor
Your words appear formatted where you're already typing. Terminal, Slack, Cursor, Claude, Mail, or Google Docs. No copy-pasting ever.
Say the prompt instead of typing it.
Fast Talk puts your spoken thoughts into Claude, Codex, Cursor, or your terminal, then gets completely out of the way.
About 0.8s, speech to text on Mac Sub-Second
From the end of your sentence to text at your prompt. No round-trip server lag or buffering animation. It feels immediate.
12 MB download. About 45 MB idle Lightweight
One lean process on your Mac. Won't steal unified memory from Docker, your local LLM weights, or your Xcode compilation loops.
Learns your technical stack Smart Dictionary
Add your project's repository names, APIs, and jargon to your personal dictionary. A fix turns "super base" into "Supabase" and "cube control" into "kubectl".
Any app with a text cursor Universal
Terminal, editor, browser, or chat: anywhere there's a blinking text cursor, Fast Talk drops text without pressing Return prematurely at a shell prompt.
Idle means idle.
When you aren't dictating, nothing runs. No audio recording, no telemetry pings, and no hidden CPU loops. Fast Talk wakes in 0.8s when you tap your shortcut, then drops right back to sleep.
Find your kind of fast.
Faster or more accurate? On-device Apple Silicon or low-latency cloud? Compare real measurements across engines.
| Engine / Model | Location | Languages | Speed (Time to Text) | Accuracy Rate | RAM Footprint |
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Fast Talk Core (Apple Silicon)
Default
Optimized for Apple Neural Engine
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100% On-Device | 60+ languages | 45 MB | ||
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Fast Talk Turbo Cloud
Private
Zero data retention edge relay
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Edge Cloud | 99+ languages | 0 MB (cloud) | ||
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W
Whisper Base (Local CPU/GPU)
Open-source quantized model
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On-Device | 99 languages | ~350 MB | ||
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Whisper Medium (Local CPU/GPU)
Heavier parameter weights
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On-Device | 99 languages | ~1,600 MB | ||
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Built-in Mac Dictation
System default dictation
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On-Device | System settings | System managed |
Made for your Mac. Down to the details.
Designed exclusively for macOS. No web wrappers, no electron baggage, and no clumsy cross-platform compromises.
Your words, directly where you type.
No floating side windows to copy and paste from. Hold your shortcut in Slack, Mail, Cursor, Notion, or Terminal. Fast Talk places your text straight onto the canvas.
- Zero intermediate clipboard overwrites
- Supports custom per-app formatting rules
- Automatic punctuation and smart capitalization
Select & speak to rewrite.
Highlight any messy draft, bullet list, or confusing message. Hold your key and say "make this warmer and shorter". Fast Talk transforms the selection in place.
- Fixes grammar, tone, and length simultaneously
- One-tap Undo restores your original draft in 0.8s
- Works inside web inputs, native editors, and notes
Yeah so basically we cannot make it on Friday because of stuff Let's reschedule Friday's sync to Monday so the team has full context.
Bot-free meeting notes from your notch.
One minute before your Zoom, Meet, or Teams call starts, Fast Talk slides out of your MacBook notch. Transcribes audio and separates speakers right on your Mac—without inviting awkward recording bots.
- Zero external bots joining your meeting invites
- System audio & microphone speaker separation
- Action items summarized automatically upon call end
Speaker 1 (You): "Let's push the staging release tonight."
Speaker 2 (David): "Agreed, the test suite is 100% green."
Plain Markdown files. You own your words.
No proprietary database formats or cloud lock-in. Every note, dictation transcript, and meeting summary mirrors automatically as clean Markdown files in a folder you select.
- Fast search across years of spoken thoughts
- 100% compatible with Obsidian, Logseq, and Finder
- Git-friendly plain text with timestamps & tags
Your words. No eavesdroppers.
We believe your microphone belongs to you. Fast Talk was built from day one to operate with zero telemetry and complete privacy.
On-device by default
Your voice is transcribed locally on your Apple Silicon chip. Nothing leaves your laptop, and dictation works reliably even when your Wi-Fi is toggled completely off.
Zero data retention
If you opt into our ultra-fast cloud engine for specialized multilingual translation, audio packets are streamed via direct private relays and discarded immediately.
History you control
Every transcript and note stays on your local disk in standard file formats. We don't train models on your voice, sell telemetry, or require you to create an account.
Everything you need to know.
Try it for 7 days. You'll forget it's running.
Download the 12 MB native Mac app. Hold your key and speak. No sign-up, no credit card, and no battery drain.