Notes and drafts
Capture thoughts quickly in Apple Notes or any simple text field.
Native macOS dictation
Local multilingual speech-to-text for Mac.
Press a hotkey, speak naturally, and your words appear in Notes, Pages, Word, Mail, and other everyday writing apps. A second hotkey can turn supported speech into polished, grammatically correct English text.
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Dictation hotkey
English hotkey
Local
Multilingual
Your language matters
Diktator! understands your language.
Lite focuses on the primary languages listed on the Languages page. Other local-model languages may work too; try them and see how they behave. More languages will be added and existing quality will improve over time.
Brand character
A little imperial. Still a calm Mac utility.
The Caesar illustration gives Diktator! a memorable voice, while the product experience stays small, quiet, and practical.
Mac first
Made for writing, not command lines.
Diktator! is meant for everyday text: notes, drafts, messages, letters, reports, and documents. Terminal commands and code editors are not the main use case.
Pages and Word
Dictate longer documents while keeping transcription local on your Mac.
Mail and messages
Use your voice for replies and everyday writing without opening a separate recorder.
How it works
One simple rhythm.
Press a hotkey
One hotkey starts normal multilingual dictation. Another hotkey starts English output inside the app.
Speak naturally
The small capsule shows a green wave for normal dictation and a yellow wave for English output.
Text appears
Diktator! transcribes locally and inserts the result into the app you were using. Lite has no separate live transcript window.
More than speech recognition
From speech to readable text.
Diktator! does not simply record audio and hand it to a speech model. It adds a local dictation layer designed for real writing: silence handling, natural fragments, surrounding context, spoken formatting, and guarded final cleanup.
Local on your Mac
Audio and text are processed locally. They are not sent to cloud transcription servers.
Adaptive pauses
Diktator! watches for real speech and pauses before recognition, so short silence or edge noise is less likely to become invented text.
Context-aware transcription
Fragments should not feel like isolated scraps. The dictation layer is designed to keep nearby context for better continuity.
Draft + final polish
A final cleanup pass can improve punctuation, grammar, and flow, but safety checks reject changes that would shorten or damage good multilingual text.
Spoken formatting
Basic words such as comma, question mark, new paragraph, and capitalization can be treated as formatting rather than literal text.
Designed for real dictation
The goal is readable text that feels closer to what you meant to write, not a raw transcript that needs heavy repair.
How this differs from a simple speech model UI
A speech model turns audio into words. Diktator! manages the writing workflow around it: when to listen, how to avoid decoding silence, how to preserve context, how to handle spoken punctuation, where the text can go, and when a final cleanup pass should be accepted or rejected. The App Store/TestFlight path is being aligned with this local quality pipeline while using App Store-safe text delivery.
Speech to text
AI-style dictation, outside the chat box.
If you like voice input in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok, or other AI tools, Diktator! brings a similar speech-to-text rhythm to Mac writing apps: Notes, Pages, Word, Mail, and ordinary text fields. It is not text-to-speech; it turns your voice into text.
AI dictation for Mac
Use a hotkey for normal dictation, or the English hotkey when you want polished English output.
Compare the workflowSpeech to text in your language
Search phrases like voice to text, диктовка на русском, dettatura in italiano, and dictado en español all point to the same need.
See language phrasesРусская диктовка для Mac
Для Яндекса и русскоязычного поиска есть отдельная страница про голос в текст на русском языке.
Открыть русскую страницуAvailable now
Diktator+ is the direct Mac build.
Diktator+ is the website direct-download edition. It keeps dictation local and can include deeper Mac desktop integration than the App Store/TestFlight edition.
Download version 0.7.1Coming later
Pro will add control, not pressure.
Pro is planned as a future one-time purchase for model and language choice, new local models, long-form dictation, optional user-consent audio capture workflows, local archive features, searchable history, dictionaries, and writing styles.
See the Pro upgradeApp Store testing
Help test the App Store version.
Join the TestFlight build, try Diktator! in real writing apps, and help verify the App Store-safe Services delivery and local text cleanup pipeline.
As a thank-you, everyone who joins this TestFlight test and shares feedback will receive Diktator! Pro free forever when Pro is available.
Join TestFlightWhat to test
Try your language, pauses, English output, empty recordings, mixed-language phrases, Copy All or drag fallback, and everyday writing in real Mac apps.