✦ v0.1.5 · macOS · Apple silicon

DeskWand Voice

Say it. It's done. Your words become text, or an answer spoken back to you.

Download for macOS See the two modes

Dictation: press once, talk, press again.

It works in whatever app you are already typing in.

  1. Press Ctrl+Alt+D. A strip appears beside the box you are typing in, and the microphone opens.
  2. Talk normally. The level moves with your voice, and the tag shows the language.
  3. Press Ctrl+Alt+D again. Your words are tidied into sentences and typed where the cursor is. With nowhere to type, they go to the clipboard.

Conversation: press Alt+V, then just talk.

No chat window. The same strip does the talking, and it will not touch your files.

  1. Press Alt+V, or click the button on the strip. It starts listening.
  2. Ask your question and pause. The pause sends it, and the answer is read back a sentence at a time.
  3. Cut in at any point and it stops reading to listen. Press Alt+V again to end.

What stays on your computer

With the microphone off nothing is captured, and no audio leaves your computer. Otherwise:

By defaultIf you switch
Speech to textOn your computerA cloud service you pick
Spoken repliesOn your computerA cloud voice you pick
Tidy-upOn your computerCloud, off by default
ConversationThe model you connect, cloud or on your computer—

Models download on first use: 228 MB for speech to text, 182 MB for spoken replies, 378 MB for tidy-up. Downloads resume if they drop, and every file is checked.

Before you start

  • Microphone permission, plus Accessibility so it can type into other apps.
  • For conversations, sign in with a DeskWand account, or use your own key from a service such as OpenAI or DeepSeek. Dictation needs neither.

Download DeskWand Voice

  • macOSDeskWandVoice-0.1.5-macos-arm64.dmg.dmgDownload