On-device. Offline. Private.

Talk into any text field.

Wave Speak turns your voice into text, entirely on your Mac. Dictate wherever you type, or drop in a recording.

Get Wave Speak See how it works

Free for 14 days. One-time purchase, no subscription.

Dictate anywhere

Press your hotkey. Speak. Done.

  1. 1 Press your hotkey ⌥ + . Customizable. Pro can use a single key, like the right ⌥ key.
  2. 2 Speak, in any language
  3. 3 Your words are text, ready for an email, a message, a doc, or an AI chat box
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Listening… 0:02

One sentence, two languages

Switch languages mid‑sentence.

Speak English and Chinese in the same breath, with no mode to set.

我review了一下你的design doc，整体approach没问题，但是scalability那一段要再补一下。

English 中文 Detected automatically

Strongest with Qwen3 for mixed English and Chinese. The default Whisper model covers 99 languages and switches between them too.

Turn recordings into text

Drop a recording. Get text back.

Lectures, meetings, interviews, voice memos. Drop in audio or video, in any of 23 formats, and save it as plain text or as subtitles.

Plain textReady to read, search or summarize
Sentence by sentence timestampsSubtitles for any video editor or player
Word by word timestampsEach word lights up as it is spoken

Home

See the time you save.

Hours saved, words per minute, and your streak. In light and in dark.

Wave Speak's Home page, half in light and half in dark appearance: 11 hours saved, 138 words per minute, a 12-day streak with a calendar of the last months, and the money and pages that adds up to.

Built in

Three models. Your pick.

Three of the latest open-source speech models, each from a different maker, ready from the first launch.

Whisper Large v3 Turbo

Default

OpenAI

Covers 99 languages and cleans up filler words, so transcripts read tidier than they were spoken. Pick this if you are not sure.

Qwen3 ASR 1.7B

Most accurate

Alibaba

Transcribes word for word and stays accurate through noise, accents, and mixed languages. Strongest on mixed English and Chinese.

Parakeet 0.6B v3

Fastest

NVIDIA

Near-instant, for English and 24 more European languages. Pick this for raw speed in one of them.

And more

Make it yours.

  • Dictionary

    Add the names, brands, and jargon you use, so they come out spelled right.

  • Custom hotkey

    Pick your own key combo. Hold to talk, or tap to toggle for long sessions.

  • History

    Your last 100 dictations and transcripts, ready to find, copy, or save.

  • Menu bar

    Lives in the menu bar and stays out of your way. Minimalist by design.

Wave Speak Pro's Dictionary page: a list of names and terms such as Kubernetes, OKR and Maria Chen, with a field to add a word. Wave Speak Pro's Hotkey page: the dictation hotkey set to the right Option key, and the choice between hold to talk and toggle.

Private by design

Nothing leaves your Mac.

Every model runs on your Mac. No account, no servers, no tracking: your voice, your transcripts, and your files never leave it. And it all works offline: on a plane, in a dead zone, or with the Wi‑Fi off.

One-time purchase

Own it. One time.

Two editions, each with a 14-day free trial of everything.

Wave Speak

€9.99once

From the Mac App Store.

Price varies by region.

  • Dictate anywhere, in any language
  • Transcribe audio & video files
  • All three on-device models, built in
  • Paste your words with ⌘V
  • No subscription, no account
Get Wave Speak

Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer). macOS 26 or later.

Pro

Wave Speak Pro

€19.99once

Direct from wavespeak.app.

Everything in Wave Speak, plus

  • Hands-free paste, no ⌘V. Your words land where you type
  • One-key dictation: any single key can be your hotkey, even just the right ⌥ key
  • Transcribe straight from a link: YouTube, podcasts, video
Get Wave Speak Pro

Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer). macOS 26 or later.

Why are these three Pro-only?

Not by choice. Every App Store app follows the same safety rules, and these three features need more freedom than the rules give. So they live in the direct version, downloaded from this site.

  • Hands-free paste. An App Store app may not type into another app. So the store version puts your words on the clipboard, and Pro drops them straight into what you’re writing.
  • One-key dictation. An App Store shortcut takes two keys, like ⌥ + .. Pro can watch for a single key: tap the right ⌥ key and talk.
  • Transcribe from a link. Apps that pull audio from sites like YouTube can’t be on the App Store. Pro does, and transcribes it on your Mac.

I built Wave Speak for myself first. I got tired of dictating in one app and copying the result into the one I actually needed, and I did not want a meter running every time I used it. So I made the version I wanted: that same quality of dictation, landing right where you are already typing, running entirely on your own Mac. You can write as fast as you think. I hope it takes a little friction out of your day too.

The maker of Wave Speak