Paraspeech Documentation

It's a voice-to-text app for Mac. Hold a key, say what you're thinking, let go — and your words appear instantly wherever your cursor is. No pasting required.

No. Everything happens on your Mac. The speech recognition runs locally, your recordings never leave your computer, and there's no cloud involved. It even works on airplane mode.

You'll need a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4, or newer) and macOS 14.6 (Sonoma) or later. If you have an Intel Mac, unfortunately Paraspeech won't run — the speech recognition requires Apple Silicon.

There's a free trial so you can see if it works for you. After that, it's a one-time purchase — no subscription, no recurring fees.

Yes! After the initial setup (which downloads the speech recognition model), Paraspeech works completely offline.

Hold your shortcut key (Control by default), talk, let go. Your words appear instantly wherever your cursor is — no pasting required. That's the whole thing.

Turn on "Auto-Send" in Settings → General. Your transcription will be pasted and sent automatically. Your history is always available in the menu bar if you need to retrieve something later.

Absolutely. Go to Settings → Hotkeys and pick whatever feels natural. Some people like Right Option, some use Hyper Key, others prefer a key combination.

Find a quieter spot, move closer to the microphone, set up word replacements for terms it keeps getting wrong, and try the English-only model if you only speak English. Also, turn on "Remove Fillers" or "Convert Numbers" in Settings.

If you sit in front of a MacBook, please use the built-in microphone instead of the Bluetooth headset/AirPods. The microphone is much better and has no latency/quality issues introduced by the Bluetooth connection.

The default Multilingual model handles 25 languages. There's also an English-only model if that's all you need.

Yes. Your voice is processed on your Mac, not in the cloud. No transcript or audio is uploaded anywhere. Your transcription history stays on your computer.

It lets Paraspeech detect your shortcut key while you're using other apps and allows Auto-Send to paste text for you. Mac requires several permissions to work properly, but you can always fully block Paraspeech in your firewall if your admin requires it - it will work fine.

It's fully anonymous and only very basic data - we can not identify you or your usage patterns. No IP addresses, no user IDs, no personal information, no transcripts or audio. Just things like 'app launched', 'feature used', 'error reported', but only bucketed data and aggregated counts. This is just to help us understand the aggregate usage of the app.

Only if you opt in, this helps us understand how you use the app and how we can improve it. Things like feature usage, crash reports, and session counts. We never collect your voice, your transcriptions, or anything you say. You can turn it off anytime in Settings.

This is just for local privacy if you share your Mac with others and don't want them to see your transcriptions. It clears your transcription history and stops saving new ones. Everything still works normally — your transcriptions just aren't stored. Handy for confidential work.

You get a number of free transcriptions to try it out. The app shows how many you have left. After that, you'll see a prompt to purchase.

No, not if you don't want to. Pay once, use it forever. No monthly fees, no annual renewals If you prefer to pay monthly, you can subscribe to a plan.

It depends on your license. Each license tier includes a certain number of device activations — check your purchase details or the pricing page to see how many Macs your license covers.