Talk instead of type. Keep every meeting.

Hold a key and your words land right where your cursor is. Hit record on a call and get a transcript of who said what. It all runs on your Mac: no cloud, no account, works on a plane.

parakeet qwen whisper

click to copy or download the DMG: notarized, macOS 13+, Apple Silicon & Intel

Dictation

Hold a key. Say the thing. It's typed.

Hold Right Option, talk, let go. The text appears in whatever app you're in: email, chat, your editor, the terminal.

Dictate: hold, speak, release to pastehold ⌥

Hands-free: start now, stop when you're done⌥ space · esc

Screenshot a region while you talk⌥ 4

Screenshot the whole screen while you talk⌥ 3

Start or stop a meeting recordingyour choice

Screenshots taken mid-sentence are referenced in the text, so "this button here" brings the image along. Every shortcut can be changed in Keyboard Shortcuts, and every transcription is kept in History.

Meetings

A transcript of every call, as it happens

Click Record Meeting and the transcript builds while people talk. Hearsay records your mic and the call separately, so it knows which lines are yours, and tells everyone else apart by voice. Zoom, Meet, Teams, Slack, FaceTime: if your Mac plays it, Hearsay hears it.

Reader view of a meeting transcript, with each speaker named

Speakers view: talk time for each person on the call

Know who said what

When you stop, Hearsay takes one more pass over the whole call to sort out speakers, then tidies filler words. Rename someone once and every line follows.

Calendar shaded by how many meetings each day had

Find any meeting

The calendar is shaded by how busy each day was. Pick a day, or search every transcript you've ever recorded.

Three ways to read: an editable timeline, a clean reading view, and talk time per person.
Share it: copy the transcript or export Markdown.
Gentle nudges: offers to record when a call starts, and to stop when everyone says goodbye.
No echo: on speakers instead of headphones, the duplicate lines your mic picks up are dropped.

Private by design

Your voice never leaves your Mac.

Transcription, speaker detection and clean-up all run on-device. No account, no cloud service, no subscription. Transcripts are plain files you own, and you decide how much space meeting audio may use.

Models

Pick your transcriber

Download one in the app on first launch; switch or delete any time from Models. Teach it your names and jargon in Vocabulary.

Parakeet

recommendedapple silicon

NVIDIA Parakeet, English and multilingual, via FluidAudio. Powers live meeting transcripts.

Qwen

all macs

Fast and accurate, runs on every Mac, Apple Silicon or Intel. Via antirez's qwen-asr.

Whisper

apple silicon

English transcription with WhisperKit.

For you and your agents

Your meetings, from the terminal

Hearsay ships a hearsay command, so you (or an AI agent) can pull up last week's call and ask what was decided. Other apps can use Hearsay for dictation too; see the integration guide.

# the last meeting, as Markdown
hearsay meetings show latest

# every meeting that mentioned pricing
hearsay meetings search "pricing"

# start and stop recording from a script
hearsay meeting start
hearsay meeting stop

# dictate from a script, print the transcript
hearsay dictate