Dictation for journalists
Write faster. Leave no copy of your sources.
Talk2me turns your voice into text on your Mac. Drafts, notes and names never reach a third-party server, so there is no copy for anyone else to breach, keep or hand over.
Free in beta, then $10 a year. No account, no card. Mac with Apple silicon.
A copy you don't control
A transcript on a vendor's server is a copy you don't control. It can be breached. It can be kept longer than you expect. It can be requested from that company through legal process. Voice data also has a history of surprises: in 2019, Apple apologized after reports that contractors listened to Siri recordings to grade them.
Talk2me removes the server from the path. With the local voice model, your words exist in one place: the Mac in front of you.
How Talk2me helps
On your Mac
With the default local voice model, your audio becomes text on your Mac. It never reaches us or anyone else.
No account
No sign-up and no user record. Nothing ties your dictation to you.
Never trained on
We never receive your words, so no model can learn from them. Not with consent, not anonymized, not later.
In the field
Works offline: on a plane, in a hotel with bad Wi-Fi, in places where you would rather not connect.
Names spelled right
Add people, places and organizations to your personal dictionary.
Every app
Your editor, your CMS, your notes app, your messages. If you can type there, you can talk there.
Good to know
- Talk2me types what you say while you hold two keys. It is not an interview or call recorder.
- Mac only today: Apple silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 15 or later. Windows and Linux are next.
- If you choose a cloud voice engine instead of the default, your audio goes straight from your Mac to that provider, with your own API key, and its policy applies. Settings tags every route 100% private, Private · ZDR or Not private before you choose it.
Questions
Can Talk2me be compelled to hand over my dictation?
We never receive your voice or your words, so we have nothing to hand over. What stays on your Mac is under your control.
Does it work without internet?
Yes. After the one-time voice model download, dictation works with no connection at all.
Sources
- Apple, Improving Siri's privacy protections, 28 August 2019: apple.com, checked 15 October 2026.
Your voice. Your data. TOTAL PRIVACY.
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