Talvex

SYSTEM-WIDE VOICE DICTATION FOR macOS

Your thought, already in the right place.

Hold a key in any app. Speak naturally. Release it. Talvex transcribes, cleans up, and inserts your words at the cursor.

Download for Apple Silicon macOS 13+

English and Arabic dictation. Free release download.

LISTENINGRight Option
Ready when you are.
Your transcript appears here, then at your cursor.
01

Hold a hotkey

Use a modifier key anywhere—no switching apps or reaching for a menu.

02

Say what you mean

Choose English, Arabic, or Auto mode for speech that moves between your selected languages.

03

Release to insert

Talvex adds the finished text to the app and field you were already using.

Dictation is the start, not the whole job.

Talvex is built around the small controls that make a voice tool fit into real writing.

Works wherever you write

Dictated text is inserted into the focused macOS app—Mail, Notes, a browser, chat, and more.

English, Arabic, or Auto

Pin a language when you know it, or let Auto detect from the languages you chose during setup.

Choose your microphone

Follow the system default or select an input yourself. Automatic mode protects AirPods playback by preferring a built-in mic when appropriate.

Feedback you can tune

See a compact or detailed floating indicator, choose start and stop sounds, and launch Talvex automatically at login.

Speak commands, write cleanly

Use spoken punctuation and editing commands. Optionally remove fillers, format numbers, apply smart spacing, and add personal phrase replacements.

Two independent hotkeys

Keep one key for ordinary dictation and another for dictating directly into a translation.

One voice, more ways to say it.

Translation and Arabic transcription are configurable rather than hidden behind a single “smart” mode.

TRANSLATE

Dictate in one language. Insert another.

Choose English, Modern Standard Arabic, or Egyptian Arabic as the translation target. Turn translation on for normal dictation or use the dedicated translate hotkey.

  • Target selection takes effect immediately
  • Translation uses an optional configured cloud API
ARABIC

Use the engine that suits the moment.

Arabic dictation uses WhisperKit locally by default. You can instead choose Deepgram Nova-3 for Arabic after providing your own API key; English remains local.

  • Local WhisperKit is the default
  • Deepgram is opt-in and key-based

English dictation runs locally on Apple Silicon. Arabic also uses local WhisperKit by default.

Cloud services are optional: translation requires a configured API key, and Deepgram is an opt-in Arabic transcription backend. Talvex makes that choice visible in Preferences.