# ZenVoice — Private dictation for Mac Source: https://getzenvoice.com > Press a shortcut, speak, and your words land in any app. ZenVoice transcribes and polishes entirely on your Mac with 15 on-device models. 100% on-device · for Mac # Say it messy. Send it clean. Press a shortcut, speak, and your words land in any app. Transcribed and polished on your Mac, never in the cloud. Download for MacBuy · from $14.99 Launch price for the first 100 · $14.99 once · No subscription · On Windows? [Join the waitlist](https://getzenvoice.com/windows) Watch the demo2:29 · sound on NotesFileEditFormatViewWindow Tue 9:41 iCloud All Notes Work Launch Ideas 23 September 2026 at 9:41 Launch checklist — Final QA pass on 0.5.0 — Record the product film ![ZenVoice settings: the Recording HUD picker with Notch and Floating panel styles](/app/general.webp) Press ⌃ ⌥ Space to replay the dictation 73× faster than real time Parakeet V3 on an M5 0.4 s to clean text ZenPolish, per dictation 25 languages on your Mac plus Hinglish 0 bytes of your voice leave your Mac no account, no cloud Types into every app, Chrome and Electron included. - Mail - Messages - WhatsApp - Telegram - Slack - Outlook - Notes - Pages - Word - Obsidian - Bear - ChatGPT - Xcode - Visual Studio Code - Terminal - Ghostty - Android Studio - Safari - Google Chrome - Dia - Keynote - Numbers - Things - Spark Films ## See it, then hear it. Every feature, chapter by chapter: cleanup, numbers, tone, agents, review, dictionary, languages, offline. Original score. [Take the 4-minute app tour →](https://getzenvoice.com/tour) 01 · Cleanup ## Finished text, not a transcript. Say it the way it comes out. Fillers, false starts and repeated words are gone before the text lands, and “scratch that” takes back what you just said. - “um so uh can we move the the launch to thursday”Can we move the launch to Thursday? - “send it by friday, scratch that, thursday”Send it by Thursday. [How ZenPolish writes it →](https://getzenvoice.com/zenpolish) 02 · Speed ## Faster than your fingers. Your words appear as you talk. Parakeet V3, the default engine, runs at 73× real time, and ZenPolish cleans a dictation in about 0.4 s on an Apple M5. Words you write a day2,000 23 min saved a day 1.9 h saved a working week Typing at 52 words a minute, the average across 168,000 typists ([Dhakal et al., 2018](https://userinterfaces.aalto.fi/136Mkeystrokes/)), against speaking at a relaxed 130. Your own words per minute are in Insights. 03 · Formatting ## Written the way you’d type it. Money, times, counts and email addresses are written by fixed rules, so “three thousand dollars” is always $3,000. And the tone follows the app: relaxed in Messages, polished in Mail. - Try it: pick an app and see the same sentence written for it. You say “hey are we still on for five pm” Mail · Professional Hello, are we still meeting at 5 pm? “three thousand dollars” $3,000 “meet me at one twenty” 1:20 “one hundred twenty chairs” 120 chairs 04 · Context ## It reads the room, then forgets it. When you dictate a reply, ZenVoice reads the window you're in, for that one dictation. Names in the thread come out spelled right, and the reply matches the thread's tone. To: Anjali Mehta, Dev Patel · Re: Launch plan Anjali: can we move the review to Friday? I talked to Priyanka about it. The deck is ready. Reads The window around the text field: the thread, the recipient, the project. Uses Names in view spelled right, the thread's tone matched, file names spelled the project's way. Keeps Nothing. It is read for one dictation, then forgotten. 05 · Agents and terminals ## Talk to your agents. Terminals get your exact words. In a terminal, what you say is typed exactly: flags, dashes and all. In a prompt for a coding agent, your project's file names are spelled the way they are on disk. - Works in Terminal, iTerm, Ghostty and Warp, and with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and Xcode. \# you say: “git push dash dash force-with-lease origin main” ~/zenvoice $ git push --force-with-lease origin main Exact wordsFlags keep their dashes, and nothing is reworded. 06 · Dictionary ## It asks before it remembers. Correct a word once and copy it, and ZenVoice suggests the fix: “Cooper Nettys → Kubernetes”. Add it, and it's right from then on. Nothing is learned without a yes. 07 · Languages ## 25 languages. And Hinglish. Parakeet V3 speaks 25 European languages on your Mac, Whisper covers many more, and Hinglish Prime writes Hinglish the way people text it. Speak in one language and have it written in English, if you like. [Every model and its languages →](https://getzenvoice.com/models) Said in Español NVIDIA Parakeet V3 Canto para que me escuchen. Press a language to hear it, and see it written as it's spoken. 08 · Your numbers ## Counted on your Mac. Words per minute, words dictated, time spent and fixes made, with a streak to keep. Insights are calculated from your history on your Mac and go nowhere else. 09 · Privacy ## Nothing leaves your Mac. Check it yourself. No account, no analytics, no cloud. Turn the Wi-Fi off and dictate: it works the same. ZenVoice goes online for two things only, and never while you dictate. - Downloading a model you pick, verified by SHA-256 - Checking for signed updates [Read the full privacy statement →](https://getzenvoice.com/privacy) Network monitor · ZenVoice Dictations today 41 Sent while dictating 0 bytes Every host ZenVoice ever contacts - huggingface.coModel downloadWhen you click Download - getzenvoice.comUpdate checkAbout once a day, if on - getzenvoice.comLicence activationOnly when you activate None of them during a dictation. That's the whole list. 10 · Extras ## Small things you’ll use every day. Hold, tap or hands-free Hold the shortcut to talk, tap to lock it on, or let it start when you speak. Notch or floating Your words appear as you speak, in the notch or in a bar at the bottom. Review before inserting The bar opens into a card: read it, fix a word, then insert. Edit by voice Select text and say “make it shorter” or “turn it into bullet points”. Snippets Say “insert my mailing address” and the whole block lands. Spoken commands “New paragraph”, “open parenthesis”, “thinking emoji” 🤔. Paste the last one ⌃⌥V pastes your last dictation anywhere. Audio History Keep the recordings if you like, and play them back. Recovery Inbox If a dictation ever fails, the audio is kept so you can try it again. ## ![](/brand/zenvoice-icon-128.webp)14 models from 7 publishers, running on your Mac NVIDIAOpenAI WhisperAppleQwenCohere![](/brand/zenvoice-icon-128.webp)ZenPolish![](/brand/zenvoice-icon-128.webp)ZenVoiceHinglish Prime ## 14 Models Available Eleven speech engines and three Smart formatting models. Every download is pinned to a reviewed revision and checked by SHA-256 before it runs. AppleSpeech ParakeetV3 ParakeetV2 Nemotron3.5 Qwen3‑ASR0.6B CohereTranscribe WhisperTurbo WhisperSmall WhisperTiny EN WhisperTiny हHinglishPrime AppleIntelligence ![ZenVoice](/brand/zenvoice-icon-512.png)ZenPolish1.7B v2.2 Qwen 3.52B ![ZenVoice](/brand/zenvoice-icon-512.png) ![ZenVoice](/brand/zenvoice-icon-512.png) - Apple Speech - Parakeet V3 - Parakeet V2 - Nemotron 3.5 - Qwen3‑ASR 0.6B - Cohere Transcribe - Whisper Turbo - Whisper Small - Whisper Tiny EN - Whisper Tiny - हHinglish Prime - Apple Intelligence - ![ZenVoice](/brand/zenvoice-icon-512.png)ZenPolish 1.7B v2.2 - Qwen 3.5 2B [Browse every model →](https://getzenvoice.com/models) Benchmarks ## Measured, not claimed. Word error rate and speed on Common Voice Spontaneous 4.0 · 262 clips · 51 min, MacBook Pro M5. Lower WER is better. Engine WER Segmented WER p50 decode p95 decode Real time NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B V3Lowest WER 6.9% 8.3% 0.13 s 0.37 s 73× NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B V2 7.3% 9.3% 0.12 s 0.37 s 73× Whisper Large V3 Turbo 8.2% 9.8% 1.00 s 2.19 s 11× Cohere Transcribe 10.8% 12.5% 1.93 s 5.75 s 5× NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Multilingual 0.6B 13.8% 14.0% 0.20 s 0.60 s 45× [See every benchmark table →](https://getzenvoice.com/benchmarks) ## Made for people who write all day. Same engine, different apps, names and tone. Find the page written for the way you work. [DevelopersPrompts, commands and file names, spoken](https://getzenvoice.com/for/developers) [WritersFirst drafts at the speed you think](https://getzenvoice.com/for/writers) [Founders & execsClear the inbox by talking](https://getzenvoice.com/for/founders) [SalesCRM notes without the typing](https://getzenvoice.com/for/sales) [Support teamsReplies and canned answers, spoken](https://getzenvoice.com/for/support) [StudentsEssays and notes at speaking speed](https://getzenvoice.com/for/students) [Multilingual25 languages, and Hinglish](https://getzenvoice.com/for/multilingual) [Hands-free & RSIWrite without typing](https://getzenvoice.com/for/hands-free) ## How ZenVoice compares. Against the apps people weigh it with, as each describes itself. If you need a phone app today, or you transcribe audio files, one of them may suit you better. ZenVoice Wispr Flow Superwhisper SpeakMac Where your speech is processed On your Mac In the cloud On your Mac or in the cloud On your Mac Works with no internet With local models Account needed No Yes Not for the free plan No Price $14.99 once (launch price, first 100) Free up to 2,000 words a week, then $12–15 a month Free, or $8.49 a month for Pro $29–39 once Platforms Mac (Windows in the works) Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android Mac Own writing model, with a published benchmark Numbers, times and money written by fixed rules Not stated Not stated Not stated Tone that follows the app Modes you pick Styles you pick Choice of on-device speech models 14 models Not stated Not stated Project file names spelled right for agents Not stated Not stated Not stated Review before the text lands Not stated Not stated Not stated Hinglish Hinglish Prime Not stated Not stated Not stated Keeps the audio if a dictation fails Recovery Inbox Not stated Not stated Not stated Transcribes audio files Competitors as each describes itself on its own site, checked September 27, 2026: [Wispr Flow](https://wisprflow.ai/pricing), [Superwhisper](https://superwhisper.com), [SpeakMac](https://speakmac.app). Wispr Flow: “Transcription always happens in the cloud” ([privacy page](https://wisprflow.ai/privacy)). Spotted something out of date? Tell us at hello@getzenvoice.com. [The full comparison →](https://getzenvoice.com/compare) Pricing ## Pay once. Yours forever. Both plans cover two Macs, every model and every language. The only difference: how long you get new features. ### Pro Everything ZenVoice does today, on two Macs, with a year of new features. $39.9962.5% offfor the first 100 $14.99once Upgrade to Lifetime any time for the difference: $25.00 at launch prices. - 2 Macs - All 14 models and every language - Runs offline. Nothing leaves your Mac - 1 year of new features and new models - Bug fixes, UI fixes and macOS compatibility forever [Buy Pro · $14.99](https://getzenvoice.com/checkout?plan=standard) ### Lifetime Recommended Every update we ever ship, including new features and new models. $99.0060% offfor the first 100 $39.99once Every update we ever ship, for one payment. - 2 Macs - All 14 models and every language - Runs offline. Nothing leaves your Mac - Every new feature and new model, forever - Bug fixes, UI fixes and macOS compatibility forever [Buy Lifetime · $39.99](https://getzenvoice.com/checkout?plan=lifetime) ## Questions people ask before buying. Does it work offline? Yes. Dictation never needs the internet. ZenVoice goes online only to download a model you pick and to check for signed updates. Is my voice used to train anything? No. Your audio and your words never leave your Mac, so there is nothing to train on. Do I need an account? No. There is no sign-up and nothing to log in to. Which Macs does it run on? macOS 15 or later, on Apple silicon or Intel. Every model runs on Apple silicon; ZenPolish needs it, and Apple Speech needs macOS 26. Does it work in every app? It types into any text field: Mail, Slack, Messages, Notes, browsers, Chrome and Electron apps, code editors and terminals. How is it different from the dictation built into macOS? ZenVoice cleans up what you say, writes numbers and times by rule, matches the tone of the app, learns your words when you say yes, spells your project's file names for agents, and lets you pick from 14 models. Is it a Wispr Flow alternative? On a Mac, yes: your speech is processed on your Mac instead of in the cloud, there's no account, and you pay once. Wispr Flow also runs on phones, which ZenVoice doesn't; ZenVoice for Windows is in the works. Why is it better at numbers and times? Because rules write them, not a model's guess. “Three thousand dollars” is always $3,000 and “one twenty” in a time is always 1:20. How big is the download? The app is small; models download separately, and you pick which. The default speech engine, Parakeet V3, is 0.9 GB. Every model's size is on the Models page. Does it speak my language? 25 European languages with Parakeet V3, many more with Whisper, and Hinglish with Hinglish Prime. Hindi in Devanagari isn't offered yet. What's the difference between Pro and Lifetime? Only updates. Pro ($14.99) includes a year of new features and models; Lifetime ($39.99) includes every one we ever ship. Both cover two Macs, and bug fixes and macOS compatibility continue for both. Can I buy for a team? Yes: one licence per Mac, from 5 Macs, and the price per Mac drops as the team grows. Over 100 Macs, talk to us. Will there be a Windows version? Yes, it's in the works. Join the Windows waitlist at getzenvoice.com/windows and we'll email you once, when it's ready. There's no iPhone version planned. ## How it works ![](/brand/zenvoice-icon-128.webp)ZenVoice Applications ### Download ZenVoice 1 Parakeet V30.9 GB Whisper Turbo0.5 GB ![](/brand/zenvoice-icon-64.webp)ZenPolish 1.7B v2.21.5 GB ### Pick a model 2 ⌃⌥Space ### Press ⌃⌥Space and talk 3 Download for Mac ![ZenVoice](/brand/zenvoice-icon-256.webp) ## Download ZenVoice Mac Available - Apple siliconM1 or later[Download](https://getzenvoice.com/download/ZenVoice.dmg) - IntelmacOS 15 or later[Download](https://getzenvoice.com/download/ZenVoice.dmg) macOS 15 or later. Apple Speech needs macOS 26. Windows In the works We’re building ZenVoice for Windows. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you once, when it’s ready. [More about Windows →](https://getzenvoice.com/windows) Your email is used for this one message and nothing else. ## Stop typing. Start talking. Download for Mac Available on macOS 15+ · Apple Silicon and Intel