Native voice typing for macOS 26

Speak.
Your Mac writes.

Press your shortcut, follow the live transcript, then press again to write. Apple Speech keeps the core path immediate; optional AI adds polish, translation, automatic vocabulary learning, and per-app tone.

Free forever · Apple silicon · macOS 26+

The centered HUD expands smoothly with the live transcript, processes the result, writes at the captured cursor, and disappears after success.

Apple SpeechAI is optionalNo telemetryOpen source

One shortcut, one clear path

See every word.
Straight to the cursor.

Press once to speak, watch the centered preview grow, then press again to finish. A successful delivery ends there; a recovery card appears only when writing fails.

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Dictate

Apple Speech uses your app-aware dictionary, while Lerro previews every word and safely writes the final text.

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02

Polish

Your selected local or remote AI applies dictionary terms and the tone saved for the current app.

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Translate

Speak naturally and let the selected local or remote AI translate the final transcript before delivery.

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Lerro Personalization

It learns your words. It fits every app.

Correct a recently dictated name or term and AI can add the useful mapping to your app-aware dictionary. Personalization keeps each app's icon, tone, AI preview, and enablement in one first-level page.

Lerro home screen with recent dictation and personalization status
Lerro onboarding recording and testing the user's actual dictation shortcut
The eight-step onboarding advances through verified actions, from permissions and AI choice to a real first dictation.
Lerro settings for Dictate and Translate shortcuts
Manual finish is the default. Quick Dictate is an optional setting that finishes after a short silence.

Private by architecture

Your voice stays close.

Apple Speech handles the core transcript. Optional intelligence runs through the local MLX model or the remote provider you configure. Audio saving stays off by default.

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Clear network boundaries

Remote polish and translation send the transcript and enabled context to your provider. Automatic learning sends the smallest recent correction span for classification. Local AI keeps both operations on your Mac.

Open by default

Inspect every product decision.

Lerro is Apache-2.0 licensed. The app, privacy policy, architecture, tests, release scripts, and website are all public.

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Questions, answered

Before your first dictation.

Microphone and Speech Recognition power Apple dictation. Accessibility enables the global shortcut, captures the target field, writes finished text, and observes a recent correction when automatic dictionary learning is enabled.

Lerro 1.6

Speak. Preview. Write. Done.

Signed, notarized, and ready for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 26 or later.