⌥option
Hold the key
Press and hold Right Option — from any app, any window. The green pill appears.
100% on-device · free & open source
Say it — it’s written. Hold a key, speak, release: your words appear right where your cursor is, in any app. Nothing ever leaves your Mac.
Press and hold Right Option — from any app, any window. The green pill appears.
English, French, Turkish… ~40 languages, detected automatically. Punctuation included.
Your words are pasted at your cursor in well under a second. That’s the whole workflow.
Talkink runs NVIDIA’s Nemotron speech model directly on your Apple Silicon chip. No cloud. No account. No subscription. No telemetry. The code is open — anyone can check.
Mail, Slack, Word, your browser, your code editor — if you can type there, you can speak there.
30–40× faster than real time on an M-series chip. Release the key, the text is already there.
Speak in your language — or mix them. Talkink detects it automatically, with punctuation and capitals.
The speech model lives on your Mac. Your audio is processed locally and never uploaded — to anyone.
Every transcription is saved on your machine — searchable and re-copyable from the app.
Open source under MIT. Updates install themselves. No license, no lock-in, no catch.
Grab Talkink.dmg and open it.
The classic Mac move. No warnings — Talkink is notarized by Apple.
Talkink guides you through two quick permission toggles, then: hold ⌥, talk, release.
First dictation downloads the speech model once (~1.2 GB) — Talkink shows you the progress. After that, everything is instant and offline.
Yes — completely. Talkink is open source (MIT). No trial, no premium tier, no account. It exists because dictation shouldn’t require a subscription or sending your voice to a server.
Never. Transcription runs entirely on your Mac’s chip. Talkink only touches the network to download the speech model once, and to check for app updates. You can verify this — every line of code is public.
Two are needed: Microphone (to hear you) and Input Monitoring (to detect your push-to-talk key in any app). A third, Accessibility, is optional — it lets Talkink paste text at your cursor. Talkink’s welcome screen walks you through each one.
Any Apple Silicon Mac (M1 through M5) on macOS 14 or newer. Intel Macs aren’t supported — the on-device AI relies on Apple’s ML acceleration.
