Kekoso
On-device dictation and transcription for your Mac
What it does
Dictate into any Mac app with a hotkey, transcribe audio, video and YouTube links, record calls, export SRT or VTT. Three engine families to pick from: Parakeet, Whisper and SenseVoice, all downloaded once and run on the Neural Engine. Nothing is uploaded, no account, no cloud fallback, and it keeps working with Wi-Fi off. $29 once, 3 Macs, 7-day trial. macOS 14.4+, Apple silicon.
Dictate into any Mac app, transcribe audio, video and YouTube links, record calls — all on-device. One purchase, no subscription, no cloud, no account.
Voice to text on your Mac: dictate into any app, drop in a recording or a YouTube link, record a call and get both sides as text, and hand your AI agents a transcription server that runs locally. One purchase — no cloud, no subscription, no account. macOS 14.4 or later · Apple silicon · $29 once, not per month · 7-day trial Quick note before the deposition: the client confirmed the timeline, so we can file on Thursday. Speech to text on a Mac usually means paying three or four services to cover it — one for dictation, one for calls, one for converting files, an API key for everything else. Kekoso does all four, and the voice recognition runs on hardware you already own. Press the hotkey,…from kekoso.app
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