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BABEL ON

Intelligent dictation. Locally hosted. No subscription.

Limited launch price. The price goes up after the launch.

You speak. The app cleans.

Press one key and speak. Press the key again to stop. The text goes in at your cursor, in any app.

Demo. The spoken words are: “um so can you uh move the call to three no wait four thirty on thursday”. The app removes “um”, “so”, “uh” and the self-correction “three no wait”. The text that goes in is: “Can you move the call to 4:30 on Thursday?”

  • The app removes “um”, “uh” and stutters.
  • The app removes self-corrections.
  • Say “comma” or “new line” and the app writes the mark.
  • Numbers, times and emails get their written form.
  • The app adds capitals and punctuation.

One voice, the right shape.

The app shapes the text for the app you speak into.

You say

hi sam the release moves to friday because the build failed twice new line can you check the notes and tell me what to change

AI chat

Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT

Hi Sam, the release moves to Friday because the build failed twice.

Can you check the notes and tell me what to change?

A clean prompt.

Terminal

Any terminal app

Hi Sam, the release moves to Friday because the build failed twice. Can you check the notes and tell me what to change?

Always one line. No line break, so no command runs by mistake.

Email

Mail apps

Hi Sam,

The release moves to Friday because the build failed twice.

Can you check the notes and tell me what to change?

Email shape, with paragraphs.

Chat apps

Team and personal chat

Hi Sam, the release moves to Friday because the build failed twice.

Can you check the notes and tell me what to change?

Casual prose. No blank lines.

Speak your language.

A second key dictates and translates. You speak in one language. The app types clean text in English, or in the language you choose. It runs on your Mac.

Spanish → English

eh pues la la reunión es mañana a las tres

The meeting is tomorrow at 3:00.

French → English

euh ben on on se retrouve à la gare à midi

Let’s meet at the station at noon.

German → English

ähm also ich ich schicke dir den Bericht heute Abend

I’ll send you the report tonight.

Italian → French

ehm allora ci ci vediamo domani alle nove

On se voit demain à neuf heures.

Private by design.

Runs on your Mac.

Speech recognition and text cleanup run on the Mac. Your voice and your words never leave it.

No account. No subscription.

No plan and no telemetry. The only network use is one model download from Hugging Face, and you start it.

One-time purchase.

Pay one time. $4.99 is the limited launch price. The price goes up after the launch. No monthly fee.

What is inside.

History

Every dictation stays on the Mac, with search, audio playback and “transcribe again”.

Insights

Words per day, per hour and per app.

Dictionary

Words to spell right, “heard as → write as” fixes, and snippets.

Indicators

Four ways to see that the app hears you. The glow turns faster and grows wider while you speak.

  • Pill
  • Menu-bar wave
  • Dock glow
  • Screen-edge glow

Built on open models.

Speech

Parakeet Unified (English) by NVIDIA, on Apple's Neural Engine through FluidAudio.

Cleanup

S1-mini by Superwhisper, on llama.cpp.

Get it.

One-time purchase. No subscription.

System needs

  • A Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later)
  • macOS 15 Sequoia or later
  • About 1.2 GB of disk space for the two models

$4.99Limited launch price. The price goes up after the launch.

  • The signed app for your Mac
  • No account and no subscription
  • Your voice stays on your Mac
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