Dictation app
Freeway
by Freeway
A Mac voice-to-text app that inserts what you say wherever your cursor is in any app, using a speech model that runs on the Mac.
- Mac
Speech engine it runs
- NVIDIA Parakeet by NVIDIAParakeet TDT v3, English: 4.48%Parakeet TDT v3, No noise: 4.44%Parakeet TDT v3, 20 dB: 4.44%Parakeet TDT v3, 10 dB: 4.48%Parakeet TDT v3, 5 dB: 7.85%Parakeet TDT v3, 0 dB: 44.47%
Word error rates from our own tests on public recordings: English in a quiet room and with background talk. Lower is better.
Key figures
Every figure about Freeway
Each figure is a row of a research dataset. Open it for the exact words of its source or the exact request it was read from.
Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI
- Freeway, custom words2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Freeway, free plan2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Freeway, recordings train models2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Freeway, rewrites with AI2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Freeway, sends text to third-party AI2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Freeway, speech on the device2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Freeway, types into any app2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Freeway, voice commands for editing2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Freeway, works offline2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
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