Speech to text
Speech to text and dictation for Mac and Windows, right on your computer. Hold one shortcut, speak, let go, and your words land where your cursor is.
New in Taby 1.0.14
The short answer
Typing is slow; talking is fast. New in Taby 1.0.14, Taby types what you say into any app: hold Control + Option on a Mac or Ctrl + Windows key on a PC, speak, and let go. Your speech is turned into text on your own computer, offline, and it’s free.
Write anywhere
Hold ⌃⌥ on a Mac or Ctrl + Win on Windows, or pick your own shortcut, like ⌃⌥W. Speak, let go. Taby works out what you want by itself.
Dictate
“Just talk”
Your words, cleaned up, typed right where your cursor is. In your email, a chat, a document, anywhere.
Write for me
“Reply that I can’t make it Friday”
Taby writes the whole message for you and types it in.
Fix this
“Make it shorter”
Select some text first. Taby rewrites it and puts the new version in its place. “Translate to Spanish” works too.
New in Taby 1.0.14, and on from the start. Free with local speech and the Local Brain; Taby Cloud voice and the Cloud Brain are Premium. It never types into password fields. On a Mac, it needs the Accessibility permission.
More ways to use your voice
Press the mic and ask Taby for something: a task, a reminder, a note, your day. With “Smart” (the default), Taby sends when you pause. With “Start/stop”, press again to send. Free, on your computer, and it works offline.
New in 1.0.14: turn on “Start talking” and Taby’s chat shortcut opens the mic right away.
Press Take notes. Taby writes down what’s said on your computer, with your mic as “You” and your computer’s sound as “Others”. Then Taby’s Brain writes a Summary, Decisions and Action items into a note. The audio is always deleted after.
New in 1.0.14. It’s off at first: turn it on in Features.
Recorded your screen with Taby? Add captions in the studio, or just ask Taby. They’re made on your computer, and you can export them as SRT or TXT. New in 1.0.14.
In Taby’s phone app, tap the mic and talk. On the phone, speech goes through Taby Cloud, so it’s part of Premium (€8.99 a month).
Languages
English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian. It runs on your own computer with NVIDIA Parakeet, a one-time download of about 670 MB.
All 14 languages Taby comes in, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Hindi. It’s part of Premium (€8.99 a month).
Your speech is turned into text on your own computer, offline, with NVIDIA Parakeet, an open speech model. Taby doesn’t use Apple’s or Windows’ built-in speech; it brings its own, on Mac and Windows.
In meetings, the audio is always deleted after, and only the note stays. Write anywhere never types into password fields.
Quick answers
Yes. That’s Write anywhere, new in Taby 1.0.14. Hold Control + Option on a Mac or Ctrl + Windows key on a PC, speak, and let go. Taby types it where your cursor is, in your email, a chat, a document or anywhere else. You can pick your own shortcut too.
Yes. Write anywhere is free with Taby’s local speech and the Local Brain, both on your own computer. Taby Cloud voice and the Cloud Brain are part of Premium (€8.99 a month).
Yes. Taby turns your speech into text right on your computer with NVIDIA Parakeet, an open speech model. It’s a one-time download of about 670 MB, and after that it works with the Wi-Fi off.
On your computer: English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian. Taby Cloud voice (Premium) understands all 14 languages Taby comes in, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Hindi.
No. Taby brings its own speech model, NVIDIA Parakeet, and runs it on your computer. It works the same way on Mac and Windows.
Yes. Say “reply that I can’t make it Friday” and Taby writes the whole message. Select some text and say “make it shorter” or “translate to German”, and Taby replaces it with the new version. Taby works out which one you mean by itself.
Yes, new in Taby 1.0.14. Press Take notes. Taby writes down what’s said on your computer, with your mic as “You” and your computer’s sound as “Others”. Then it writes a Summary, Decisions and Action items into a note. The audio is always deleted after. Meeting notes are off at first: turn them on in Features.
To your Taby screen recordings, yes. New in Taby 1.0.14: add captions in the studio or just ask Taby. They’re made on your computer, and you can export them as SRT or TXT.
No. Taby turns speech into text as you talk: when you dictate, in meetings and in your own screen recordings. It doesn’t transcribe audio or video files you drop in.
Yes. Write anywhere never types into password fields. On a Mac, Taby needs the Accessibility permission so it can type where your cursor is.
Download Taby for Mac or Windows, hold the shortcut and say something. Your speech is turned into text on your own computer. No account.