Private, on-device dictation for Mac and iPhone
Professional voice dictation, made easy.
On your device — private. No cloud, no uploads.
On Mac, hold a hotkey. On iPhone, hold the mic or use the Outspoken keyboard. Your voice becomes clean text locally, wherever you write.
The film · 0:58
What Outspoken does, why your voice never leaves your Mac — and how it works in every app.
Subtitles: English · sound recommended
works everywhere you type
six films · four languages
raw in · polished out
Fillers dropped. Grammar fixed — by your local model.
01The flow
No app to open, no window to switch to. Outspoken lives behind a hotkey and types where your cursor already is.
Anywhere, in any app. A small overlay appears at the bottom of your screen.
Ums, false starts, mid-sentence pivots — say it the way you'd say it out loud.
Speech recognition runs on your device. Then the local AI tidies grammar, punctuation, and formatting.
No copying, no pasting — you just keep working.
Anywhere, in any app. A small overlay appears at the bottom of your screen.
Ums, false starts, mid-sentence pivots — say it the way you'd say it out loud.
Speech recognition runs on your device. Then the local AI tidies grammar, punctuation, and formatting.
No copying, no pasting — you just keep working.
02Privacy model
There is no Outspoken cloud.
127.0.0.1).~/Library/Application Support/Outspoken/.03Who it’s for
Lawyers, doctors and everyone bound by professional secrecy dictate all day — yet client and patient data has no place in someone else’s cloud. Outspoken turns your voice into text right on your Mac. What you say stays there.
Dictate briefs, file notes and client emails. Privileged information stays where it belongs: on your Mac.
Dictate reports, referrals and session notes. Patient data goes to no server — not even ours.
Client letters and meeting notes in minutes instead of hours — as discreet as a conversation behind closed doors.
Dictate comments, commit messages and tickets — right where your cursor is; in your editor, if you like, straight as an English code comment. What you say about client projects stays on your Mac.
Transcribe interviews and recordings from audio or video files. Your sources stay protected.
Capture appraisals, minutes and sensitive emails without anything leaving your desk.
Dictate minutes and rulings where data must not leave the building.
04VoiceLock
Our own technology, built into Outspoken: think of a bank vault that opens to its owner's voice. After a short setup, VoiceLock knows your voiceprint — learned entirely on your Mac — and recognizes you as you dictate. With your voice profile, VoiceLock keeps checking while you dictate whether it hears your voice: the live indicator stays white for another voice and turns red for music. If someone else is talking too, VoiceLock separates your voice and writes your words; if it isn't sure it's you, Outspoken may put the text in History instead of inserting it. In noisy rooms a neural source-separation model extracts your voice from the mixture before transcription; clean recordings skip all of it and stay instant.
Findings: patient free of symptoms. Follow-up in three months.
Nothing inserted.
Your voice: the waves are green, and your text is written.
05Every app
Outspoken types wherever your cursor is — in Mail, Teams, Safari, in notes and editors, in any text field — and, if you like, matches the register of the room: full sentences in email, loose in chat, a tidy comment in your editor.
On Mac, Outspoken types into the app in front of you. On iPhone, dictate in Outspoken or use its keyboard in Messages, Mail and wherever you write. Transcription stays on the device on both.
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06Built-in local AI
Outspoken cleans up grammar, removes fillers, formats and restyles your words directly on your Mac — no Ollama, LM Studio or separate server setup required. The engine ships with the app; download a model once, then keep everything local. Already run your own AI? Connect that instead. Prefer verbatim? Switch rewriting off.
Transcription
Rewriting
Network
The local engine ships with Outspoken. Download the model you want once, then work offline.
The models live as files on your Mac. Swap or delete them anytime — downloads happen right in the app, and every file is checked automatically.
Turn rewriting off for verbatim transcripts — quotes, minutes, legal.
07The details
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Dictation | |
| App-aware toneMail comes out professional, Slack stays casual, your editor gets a code comment — picked from the app in front. One toggle turns it on. | |
| Formatting commands“New paragraph.” “Bullet point.” “Question mark.” Structure and punctuation are spoken, not typed — in English and German. | |
| Raw transcript modeOne toggle for verbatim output — every word as said, no model in between. | |
| Languages | |
| Swiss GermanSpeak Swiss German. Outspoken understands you and writes Standard German, with Swiss spelling (ss instead of ß). | |
| Translate while dictatingDictate in German, English lands. Other target languages (French, Spanish, Italian, …) use your local AI model — all on this Mac. | |
| Your words | |
| Custom dictionaryTeach it “Kubernetes”, “Priya”, “PostgREST” once. Lives with your snippets in one local JSON file you can edit by hand — changes apply instantly. | |
| Voice snippetsSay “insert my address” and the whole block lands — sign-offs, links, canned replies. Snippet contents never reach the AI server. | |
| Privacy and security | |
| Secure fields stay off-limitsWhen macOS flags secure input — password fields, login prompts — nothing is typed or pasted. Ever. | |
| Clipboard-safe insertionThe text lands at your cursor in one go. Outspoken then restores your clipboard. | |
08Download & buy
The same private foundation, shaped for how each Apple platform works. Get the Mac app today; the iPhone beta is already in TestFlight.
Try it free for 7 days, then
CHF 59per year
Every feature and every update included.
Outspoken-1.0.0.dmg · ~107 MB · 7 days free · no payment details · no account
The iPhone app is already being tested through TestFlight. Dictate in Outspoken or use its keyboard across apps, with transcription and translation running on the device.
iOS 17+ · TestFlight beta · public release next
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09Questions
Cloud dictation services send your audio to their servers for transcription and cleanup. Outspoken does the same job — hotkey, polish, every app — with models that run on your machine. No audio, text, or context ever reaches us — what you say never leaves your Mac.
Yes, on Mac and iPhone. Transcription runs in-process on the device; optional models stay local once downloaded. On the Mac, an activated license keeps working offline for up to 30 days; after that, Outspoken briefly needs a connection.
By default, on Outspoken's built-in local engine. If you choose your own endpoint instead, the transcript plus your style rules go exactly there. Snippet contents are swapped for placeholders before the request, so they never leave the app. Turn rewriting off and no request is made at all. Like any AI, the rewrite step can get things wrong — check important texts before you use them.
For speech recognition, you choose between several models, from small and fast to large and especially accurate. For rewriting, use one of the models that come with Outspoken, or connect your own running on your server. Everything downloads right in the app, and every file is checked automatically to make sure it is complete and unchanged.
Yes. On Mac, speak German and English comes out; other target languages use your local AI model. On iPhone, local translation profiles and a live interpreter cover supported language pairs without sending the conversation to us.
A Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) running macOS 14 or later; Intel Macs are not supported. The AI features need 8 GB of memory, the larger models 16 GB, the largest 32 GB. The default small model (~490 MB) decodes well over 30× realtime in our M-series measurements; lighter and larger models are one click away in Settings.
Yes — the iPhone app is currently in TestFlight on iOS 17 and later. Its public App Store release is coming soon; the Mac app is available to download today.
Outspoken is focused on Mac and iPhone today. Windows and Linux remain on the roadmap.