Dictation app
SpeakUp Dictation
by SpeakUp
A dictation app for Mac, with a free iPhone keyboard, that types speech into any app with recognition running on the device.
- Mac
- iPhone
Speech engine it runs
- Whisper by OpenAIWhisper large-v3-turbo, English: 3.92%Whisper large-v3-turbo, No noise: 3.78%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 20 dB: 4.2%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 10 dB: 5.51%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 5 dB: 13.92%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 0 dB: 66.09%
Word error rates from our own tests on public recordings: English in a quiet room and with background talk. Lower is better.
Every figure about SpeakUp Dictation
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.
How Long Voice Assistants Keep Your Recordings
- SpeakUp, app audio discarded2026-10Voice data is processed on your GPU and immediately discarded from memory.
- SpeakUp, website demo audio2026-10Voice demo audio: Not stored. Transient processing only.
- SpeakUp, audio never leaves Mac2026-10Your data never leaves your Mac. No cloud. No servers.
- SpeakUp, transcripts not stored2026-10No transcription data is stored. Your transcribed text is pasted into your active app and not saved by SpeakUp.
Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI
- SpeakUp: any app2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- SpeakUp: no free plan2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
- SpeakUp: no server audio2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
- SpeakUp: no third-party AI2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
- SpeakUp: no training2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
- SpeakUp: works offline2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- SpeakUp: on-device speech2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
Other dictation apps
- A9 VoiceAtlas9 LLC
- AcousmosArrway Ltd
- AeriVoiceAeriVoice
- AI DictationArtsiom Vysotski
- AICHEAICHE Technologies, LLC
- AInauten VoiceAInauten
- AlphaDictateOdyssean LLC
- AmicalAmical
- AoidePaRaD1SE98
- Aqua VoiceAqua Voice, Inc.
- AriaTypejoe223
- AuraScribeJeswin Thomas Jestin
- BetterDictationBetterDictation
- BetterTranscribeHaidar Mehsen
- BetterVoiceTarunTomar122
- BetterWisprBetterWispr
- BindersBinders
- BlabbyAIBlabbyAI
- Blip AIBLIPLABS PRIVATE LIMITED
- BlitztextBlackboat
- BlurtAssemblyAI
- Blurt (AI Response Pro)AI Response Pro
- BolkitBolkit
- BossAIHyathi Technologies Private Limited
- Bozex DictatorBOZEX
- BrainaBrainasoft
- BulbulBulbul
- CadenzaCadenza
- CapsWriter-OfflineHaujetZhao
- ChirpWhamp