Your voice.
Your Mac.
Fully local.
Speak naturally. Hlas turns your words into text in the app you’re using. Transcription and AI cleanup run entirely on your Mac.
Download for macOSYour audio stays with you. Works offline after setup.
macOS 14+ Sonoma · Apple Silicon
You speak. Hlas takes care of the text.
Lose the “ums” and false starts. Optional AI cleanup turns your dictation into clear, readable text—all on your Mac.
All on your Mac. Nothing uploaded.
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You speak
Use your shortcut and say what’s on your mind.
“Um, let’s meet at two—actually, three.”
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Hlas tidies it up
Your speech becomes text, with fillers removed and corrections worked in.
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Text appears
Right at your cursor, ready for a quick review.
Let’s meet at 3.
- Audio captureMicrophone input
- Speech → textWhisperKit or Parakeet v3
- AI cleanupS1-mini · optional
- Text insertionInto your active app
The speech model transcribes; S1-mini refines the text. Both run on your Mac. Dictionary replacements and any translation happen before AI cleanup.
Enable AI cleanup in Settings → Text. English dictation only; not meeting recordings. Requires a one-time download of about 350 MB.
Your words stay on your Mac.
Dictate a message or transcribe a meeting without uploading your audio. Download your models once, then work offline.
One hotkey. Instant dictation.
Press → Speak → Text appears at your cursor → Done.
Choose your own shortcut. Hold to talk, or press to start and stop.
See it in action
Less typing. More getting things done.
Ready when you are
One shortcut starts dictation. Your text appears where you’re already working.
Speak your language
Dictate in 60+ languages with WhisperKit, or 25 European languages with Parakeet.
Make it sound like you
Clean up your wording and save the right spellings for names you use often.
Speak in one language. Write in another.
Translate to English with Whisper, or use Apple Translation on macOS 15+.
Keep a record of your meetings
Capture your mic and meeting audio, then transcribe locally. Requires macOS 14.4+.
Remember to record
Get a reminder when a matching calendar event starts. Hlas must be running.
Fully local. Even the AI.
Choose a speech model, download it once, and dictate offline.
WhisperKit
Broad language support, with built-in translation to English.
Parakeet
Built for Apple Silicon. Recognizes your language automatically.
AI cleanup
Polish your dictation locally, with a choice of tone and formatting.
Prefer to use your own server?
Advanced users can connect a self-hosted Parakeet server. In this optional mode, dictation audio is sent to your configured server instead of being processed on your Mac. Meeting transcription still runs locally.
Speak your language
60+ with WhisperKit · 25 European languages with Parakeet v3
Write in the apps you use
Text appears wherever your cursor is. No plugins, no integrations needed.
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Start speaking.
Stay local.
Free to download. Set up once. Dictate offline.
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macOS may show “App Damaged” or “Could not verify safe.” Run this after install to fix it:
xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Hlas.app