What is speakey?

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.