Dictation that works in every Mac app
Sayburst types wherever your cursor is. Hold fn, talk, let go: clean text lands in the app you're using. Here's how it fits the apps and jobs people use it for.
Free for 7 days, then $29 once ($49 for three Macs). No subscription. Apple silicon Mac, macOS 14 or later.
- Dictation for Gmail on MacDictate Gmail emails on your Mac in any browser. Hold fn, talk, and a formatted email with greeting and sign-off lands in the compose window. No extension.
- Speech to text in Outlook on your MacDictate Outlook emails on a Mac without a Microsoft 365 add-on. Hold fn, talk, and a clean, laid-out reply lands in the message, transcribed on your Mac.
Documents and notes
- Speech to text in Evernote on MacWrite Evernote notes by voice on your Mac. Hold fn, talk, and clean text or bullets land in the note as you work, transcribed on your Mac instead of uploaded.
- Speech to text in Google Docs on MacDictate into Google Docs in any browser on your Mac. Hold fn, talk, and clean, punctuated text lands at your cursor, transcribed on your Mac, not in the cloud.
- Voice typing in Microsoft Word on MacSpeech to text in Microsoft Word for Mac, with or without a Microsoft 365 subscription. Hold fn, talk, and clean, punctuated text lands in your document.
- Speech to text in Notion on MacDictate into any Notion page, database or comment on your Mac. Hold fn, talk, and clean text lands in the block you're in, transcribed on your Mac, offline.
AI assistants
- Speech to text in ChatGPT on MacDictate into ChatGPT on your Mac, in the desktop app or any browser. Hold fn, say the whole request, and a clean prompt lands in the box, ready to send or edit.
- Voice to text in Claude on MacDictate prompts into Claude on your Mac, in the desktop app or claude.ai. Hold fn, talk through the problem, and clean text lands in the message box.
- Speech to text for Microsoft Copilot on MacDictate long, detailed prompts into Microsoft Copilot on your Mac, in the app or the browser. Hold fn, talk, and clean text lands in the box, transcribed locally.
- Speech to text for Gemini on MacDictate prompts into Gemini on your Mac, in the Gemini app or any browser. Hold a key, talk, read the clean prompt, then send. Your voice is transcribed locally.
Chat and meetings
- Dictation in Microsoft Teams on MacDictate Teams chats and channel posts on your Mac. Hold fn, say the message, and clean text lands in the compose box, transcribed on your Mac, not in the cloud.
- Slack speech to text on your MacTalk your Slack messages instead of typing them. Hold fn, speak, and a clean, casual message lands in the box, or sends itself. Transcribed on your Mac.
Coding
- Voice typing for Claude Code on MacTalk to Claude Code from any Mac terminal. Claude Code's /voice streams audio to Anthropic; Sayburst transcribes on your Mac and works with API keys and SSH.
- Voice typing in Cursor on MacCursor's voice input lives in the agent box. Sayburst adds voice everywhere else in Cursor on your Mac: inline edits, commit messages, docs, transcribed locally.
Browsers
- Speech to text in Chrome on MacType by voice in any Chrome tab on your Mac, no extension needed. Hold fn, speak, and clean text lands in Gmail, forms or ChatGPT, transcribed on your Mac.
- Voice to text in Firefox on MacFirefox has no built-in speech recognition for web pages, so most voice typing sites fail. Sayburst types clean, punctuated text into any Firefox field on your Mac.