Outspoken — Private voice typing for Mac and iPhone

six films · four languages

Watch it type.

raw in · polished out

Say it messy.
It lands clean.

Fillers dropped. Grammar fixed. Meaning kept — by your local model.

01The flow

Press, speak, release.

No app to open, no window to switch to. Outspoken lives behind a hotkey and types where your cursor already is.

1

right ⌘

Hold the hotkey

Anywhere, in any app. A small overlay appears at the bottom of your screen.

2

Speak naturally

Ums, false starts, mid-sentence pivots — say it the way you'd say it out loud.

3

~0.1–0.3 s to text with the model warm (Small · measured on M-series) · AI rewrite +0.3–0.5 s (optional)

Release

whisper.cpp transcribes on-device. Your local model tidies grammar, punctuation, and formatting.

4

Could we move the retro

Text lands in place

Polished text lands at your cursor in one go.

02Privacy model

Local by design, not by settings toggle.

There is no Outspoken cloud. Audio is captured and transcribed in-process. If you enable rewriting, the transcript goes to a model server on localhost — anything that isn't 127.0.0.1 is refused outright, redirects included, unless you explicitly approve your own server: one host, spelled out by you, off by default. The only other network access: Whisper model downloads you start yourself, checksum-verified, from huggingface.co. Every connection is listed in Settings → Network activity.

your machine

hotkey hold right ⌘ to talk

mic capture 16 kHz PCM, in memory

VAD trims silence & noise

whisper.cpp speech → text, on-device

optional rewrite built-in / your local AI

insert types at your cursor

⊘ no route

the cloud 0 bytes of audio, text, or context

Where your data actually lives

audio: Processed in memory. Never written to disk, never uploaded.
transcripts: Saved only if you turn on History — plain local files under ~/Library/Application Support/Outspoken/.
dictionary & snippets: One local JSON file. Edit it by hand, version it, back it up.
rewrite prompts: Sent only to the endpoint you configure. Default: nowhere.
account: None. Download, drag to Applications, talk.

03VoiceLock

Your voice is the key.

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. Music playing, a TV, someone walking in and talking: the live indicator turns red and other voices are kept out of your text. 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.

How the lock works

voiceprint: Trained once, stored as numbers on your Mac. Deletable anytime — it never leaves the machine.
verification: Every dictation is checked block by block against your personally calibrated threshold.
extraction: With noise or other voices present, your voice is separated out of the mix before transcription.
live indicator: Green waves while it hears you, red plus a warning line when a foreign voice speaks.

04Every app

If you can type there, you can speak there.

Outspoken types wherever your cursor is — native apps, Electron apps, browser text fields — and, if you like, matches the register of the room: full sentences in email, loose in chat, a tidy comment in your editor.

Mail

Hi Priya — the revised SOW is attached, with the timeline moved up a week. Could you review section 3 before Friday?

tone · professional

Slack

shipping the fix now — should be live in ~10 min. will post in #incidents when it lands

tone · casual

Notion

Decision: consolidate both onboarding flows before the October release. Owner: Dana. Revisit at the next planning review.

structure · notes & docs

Cursor

// Debounce resize events so the chart doesn't re-render on every frame

context · code comment

Linear

Date picker resets to UTC when the browser locale is set to JST

format · issue title

Safari

coffee roasters near bernal heights open before 7am

anywhere · any text field

Macavailable now
iPhonein TestFlight

One voice. Two Apple platforms.

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.

Dictate across appsThe Outspoken keyboard carries your on-device dictation into the text field you are using.
Swiss GermanAvailable as a real language profile on Mac and iPhone.
Live interpreterHave a two-way translated conversation directly on your iPhone.

Download for macOS Available now

iPhone beta · in TestFlight

Dana

Hey — did the migration land?

Done last night. Zero downtime.

Amazing. Coffee run to celebrate?

Flat white for me — I'm on my way.

05Built-in local AI

Local AI, built right in.

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.

Outspoken · Settings

Transcription

EngineBundled, runs in-process

whisper.cpp

ModelCPU decode via Apple's Accelerate framework

small · 488 MB

Rewriting

ProviderCleans grammar, punctuation & tone

OffBuilt-inOllamaCustom

EngineShips with Outspoken, runs only on this Mac

llama.cpp · built in

Model

Qwen2.5 7B · local

ready · on-device

Network

Non-local endpointsRefused by default. Your own server needs an explicit consent toggle — and is limited to exactly that one host.

refused by default

No separate AI app
The local engine ships with Outspoken. Download the model you want once, then work offline.
Models are files, not subscriptions
Whisper model files (GGML) on your disk. Swap or delete them anytime — downloads happen in-app, SHA-256-verified.
Raw mode
Turn rewriting off for verbatim transcripts — quotes, minutes, legal.

06The details

Built for people who dictate all day.

Custom dictionary

Teach it “Kubernetes”, “Priya”, “PostgREST” once. Lives with your snippets in one local JSON file you can edit by hand — changes apply instantly.

Voice snippets

Say “insert my address” and the whole block lands — sign-offs, links, canned replies. Snippet contents never reach the AI server.

Formatting commands

“New paragraph.” “Bullet point.” “Question mark.” Structure and punctuation are spoken, not typed — in English and German.

App-aware tone

Mail comes out professional, Slack stays casual, your editor gets a code comment — picked from the app in front. One toggle turns it on.

Raw transcript mode

One toggle for verbatim output — every word as said, no model in between.

Swiss German

Speak Swiss German. Outspoken understands you and writes Standard German, with Swiss spelling (ss instead of ß).

Translate while dictating

Dictate in German, English lands. Other target languages (French, Spanish, Italian, …) use your local AI model — all on this Mac.

Secure fields stay off-limits

When macOS flags secure input — password fields, login prompts — nothing is typed or pasted. Ever.

Clipboard-safe insertion

The text lands at your cursor in one go. Outspoken then restores your clipboard.

07Choose your platform

Outspoken for Mac and iPhone.

The same private foundation, shaped for how each Apple platform works. Get the Mac app today; the iPhone beta is already in TestFlight.

macOS Available now

Download the Mac app.

Outspoken 0.13.36 runs on macOS 14+ and Apple silicon. Hold a global hotkey and dictate into Mail, Slack, your editor or any browser field.

Built-in multilingual Whisper model
Local AI cleanup and formatting
Signed and notarized by Apple

Download for macOS

Outspoken-0.13.36.dmg · ~106 MB · no account

Buy Outspoken

CHF 6.90 a month or CHF 59 a year · subscription, renews automatically · cancel any time

iPhone In TestFlight

Outspoken for iPhone.

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.

On-device dictation across apps
Swiss German
Live interpreter on iPhone

iOS 17+ · TestFlight beta · public release next

08Questions

Fair questions.

How is this different from Wispr Flow?

Cloud dictation tools like Wispr Flow 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, because there's no “us” in the loop at all.

Does it work offline?

Yes, on Mac and iPhone. Transcription runs in-process on the device; optional models stay local once downloaded. Network access is limited to model downloads you start — and, on Mac, a server you explicitly choose to connect.

Where does the rewrite step run?

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.

Which models does it use?

Speech-to-text runs on the whisper.cpp family, from tiny to large-v3 — including large-v3-turbo and a quantized q5 build. For rewriting, choose one of Outspoken's local models or connect any chat model behind an OpenAI-compatible API. Downloads happen in the app and are SHA-256-verified.

Can it translate while I dictate?

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.

What does the Mac app require?

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 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.

Is Outspoken available on iPhone?

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.

What about Windows or Linux?

Outspoken is focused on Mac and iPhone today. Windows and Linux remain on the roadmap.

Mac + iPhone

Talk more. Type less.

Outspoken for Mac is ready to download. Outspoken for iPhone is already in TestFlight and coming soon to the App Store.