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wylopci/speakey — explained in plain English

Analysis updated 2026-05-18

35Audience · generalComplexity · 1/5LicenseSetup · easy

tl;dr

Speakey is a free macOS app that turns held-key voice input into cleaned-up, punctuated typed text, with support for translation and multiple languages.

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  root((Speakey))
    What it does
      Hold key to speak
      AI text cleanup
      Real-time translation
      Multi-language support
    Tech stack
      macOS app
      Groq API
      Whisper models
      whisper.cpp local mode
    Use cases
      Voice typing anywhere
      Translated dictation
      Offline local recognition
    Audience
      macOS users
      Multilingual writers

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what do people make with this?

VIBE 1

Dictate text into any macOS app by holding a key, speaking, and releasing it.

VIBE 2

Speak in Chinese and get translated, polished English text for emails to foreign clients.

VIBE 3

Use offline local speech recognition and text polishing on Apple Silicon Macs with no internet needed.

what's the stack?

macOSGroq APIWhisperwhisper.cpp

how it stacks up fr

wylopci/speakeyaayusharyan/fake-iisagentrhq/webcmd
Stars353535
LanguageHTMLJavaScript
Setup difficultyeasyeasyeasy
Complexity1/52/53/5
Audiencegeneralops devopsdeveloper

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how do i run it?

Difficulty · easy time til it works · 5min

Requires macOS 12 or later, a free Groq API key, and an internet connection unless using the local Apple Silicon only offline mode.

Free to use and share as is, but you cannot modify and redistribute it, rename or resell it, or reverse engineer it.

in plain english

Speakey is a voice input app for macOS. Hold down the right Option key, speak, and when you let go your words appear as typed text wherever your cursor is, whether that is in a chat app, an email, a browser, or a notes app. The idea is to let you type with your voice in any text field on the Mac. Rather than producing a raw transcript, Speakey runs an AI cleanup step that removes filler sounds like um and uh, smooths out repeated words, and adds punctuation automatically, aiming to capture what you meant to say rather than exactly what you said. It supports Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean with automatic language detection, and it can translate on the fly, so speaking in Chinese can produce English text, which the README suggests is useful for writing emails to foreign clients. The tone of the cleanup also adjusts to context, becoming more formal when pasted into an email and staying more casual in chat apps. Over time it learns commonly used words and lets you set correction rules for words it consistently mishears. Speakey is free to use. Speech recognition runs through your own free Groq API key rather than the developer's servers, so your key and your data are yours to control. Recent versions also added an optional local, offline speech recognition mode using whisper.cpp, available only on Apple Silicon Macs, along with an optional local Taiwanese TAIDE model for offline text polishing. On privacy, the app has no account system, no tracking, and no servers of its own. What you say and the recognized text travel encrypted to Groq for recognition and polishing, using OpenAI's open source Whisper model and an open source text model by default, with no Chinese AI vendor models used unless you manually switch to one. Your API key and usage history stay only on your own computer. It requires macOS 12 or later, either Apple Silicon or Intel, and an internet connection for the cloud based recognition. The app is free to use and share as is, but the license does not allow modifying and redistributing it, renaming or reselling it, or reverse engineering it.

prompts (copy fr)

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Help me set up a free Groq API key so I can use Speakey for voice input.
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Explain the difference between Speakey's cloud recognition and its local Apple Silicon mode.
prompt 3
Walk me through what data stays on my computer versus what gets sent to Groq.
prompt 4
Help me decide if Speakey's license allows the way I want to use or share it.

Frequently asked questions

what is speakey fr?

Speakey is a free macOS app that turns held-key voice input into cleaned-up, punctuated typed text, with support for translation and multiple languages.

What license does speakey use?

Free to use and share as is, but you cannot modify and redistribute it, rename or resell it, or reverse engineer it.

How hard is speakey to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is speakey for?

Mainly general.

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