Dictation + live translation · macOS & Windows
Speak in your language,
text appears in theirs.
Dictare gives you cloud-grade dictation and live translation on whatever computer you already own. Hold a hotkey, speak, release — polished text lands right at your cursor, in your language or someone else's.
v0.1.0 · macOS 11+ · Windows 10/11 · free to try, 30 minutes a day for 7 days — no card to start.
How it works
- Hold ⌘⇧Space on Mac, or Ctrl+Alt+Space on Windows.
- Speak naturally — Dictare transcribes your speech in ~99 languages.
- Release. It optionally translates (between 37 languages, any direction), polishes the grammar, and pastes the result straight into whatever app you're in.
No reaching for a browser tab, no cleaning up afterwards. The words you meant, where you need them.
The accuracy of a $5,000 Mac Studio — on any machine
Most dictation apps run the heavy AI models on your computer, so their accuracy quietly depends on owning recent, high-end hardware. Dictare runs the full models in the cloud, so the quality doesn't change with your laptop.
- No capable Mac required. The same results on a budget laptop, an old machine, or Windows.
- No multi-gigabyte downloads. Install and start talking in seconds.
- Always the latest model. Improvements arrive server-side — nothing to re-download.
- No battery drain, no fan spin. The heavy lifting happens off your device.
- Consistent speed, whether you're on a flagship or a five-year-old machine.
Cloud-powered, so Dictare needs an internet connection.
Private & secure
Your voice and your text are never used to train AI, and never stored. Dictation goes through trusted providers under contracts that prohibit training on your data — your words are processed to give you your text, and then they're gone.
Pricing
7-day free trial — 30 minutes a day, no credit card to start.
Text
$7.99/month
- Dictation + grammar polish
- ~99 languages
- Effectively unlimited use
- Paste into any app · custom vocabulary
- macOS and Windows
Translate
$14.99/month
- Everything in Text, plus:
- Speak any language, output any other
- 37 languages, every direction (DeepL)
- Speak French → send Japanese. No English required.
- ~45,000 translate words / month — a short novel's worth
Need more translation? Top-ups: +15,000 words for $5.99 · +37,500 words for $12.99.
See all 37 translation languages
- Arabic
- Bulgarian
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English (UK)
- English (US)
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Portuguese (Europe)
- Romanian
- Russian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Spanish (Latin America)
- Swedish
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
Speak in ~99 languages (transcription); translate between these 37 (DeepL). All chosen for quality, not headline count.