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Voice to Text for Mac: On-Device Dictation | Kekoso
Kekoso, 2026
Read the originalRead on October 22, 2026
- What it is
- The maker's own home page for Kekoso, a one-purchase dictation, file transcription and call recording app for Mac. It states that recognition runs on the Mac and works offline after the models download, that dictation types into any app, the vocabulary feature, and that audio stays on the machine, with translation as the one exception that sends text to OpenRouter.
- How much weight it carries
- The maker's own marketing page, read in October 2026. It also carries the privacy, pricing and FAQ text (the #privacy and #pricing sections are part of this page). It describes a test a reader can run with the network off. Claims are the maker's own and may change.
Facts taken from this source
- Kekoso says no audio ever leaves the user's machine, and no transcript does either unless the user turns on translation.
“No audio ever leaves the machine, and no transcript does either” (Privacy section)
- Kekoso says a word added once to its vocabulary is written that way in every later transcript.
“Add a word once and every transcript after that writes it your way” (Vocabulary section)
- Kekoso says recognition keeps working at full quality with the network off, because the model is on the user's Mac.
“Kekoso keeps working, at full quality, because the model was never anywhere else.” (Privacy section, 'Take the unplug test')
- Kekoso says that with translation on, the recognised text goes to OpenRouter and the model the user picked, with the user's own key.
“then goes to OpenRouter and the model you picked, and the translation is pasted where you were typing.” (Privacy section, 'Translation')
- Kekoso says that pressing the hotkey and speaking puts the text where the cursor was, in any app.
“Press the hotkey, say it, and the text appears where your cursor already was” (Features, 'Talk into any app')
- Kekoso says that after the models are downloaded on first launch, the user can stay offline permanently.
“After the models are downloaded on first launch, you can stay offline permanently” (FAQ, 'Does it really work with no internet at all?')