TongueType

TongueType, made by A Beautiful Site, LLC, is a voice dictation application for macOS that converts spoken words into text, letting users hold a customizable hotkey, speak, and release to have text appear at their cursor. It runs entirely locally, powered by Whisper AI on-device with no cloud processing, accounts, or subscriptions required for the free tier. TongueType supports speech-to-text in 12 languages with auto-detection, transcribes audio files in WAV, MP3, MP4, and MOV formats, and offers smart text insertion that matches surrounding capitalization and spacing. It includes extensive personalization with 20 accent colors and multiple themes, post-processing rules to filter annotations and map spoken phrases to symbols, iCloud sync across multiple Macs, and accessibility features for users with typing difficulties. Pricing is freemium: the free version includes all features with limits (30 minutes of monthly live dictation, 10-second file transcription cap), while TongueType Pro is a one-time $19.99 purchase covering up to 5 Macs with unlimited usage.