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How to dictate text into any Mac app by holding fn with Talkify

Install Talkify and dictate on-device by holding fn, speaking, and releasing.

Who it is forA writer or office worker on a Mac who types a lot and wants to get words onto the page faster without sending audio to a service.

The problemTyping long messages, notes or documents is slow, and cloud dictation tools may send audio off the machine.

The outcomeWords spoken while holding fn appear as text in the app you are using, with recognition done on the Mac.

What you need first

  • macOS 26 (Tahoe) on Apple Silicon
  • Homebrew for the one-line cask install, or the Talkify.dmg from the latest release
  • Xcode, since the project is an Xcode project, for building from source

Steps

  1. Install the cask with brew install --cask tornikegomareli/talkify/talkify.
  2. Open Talkify from the Applications folder and find the menu bar ghost.
  3. Click into any text field in another app.
  4. Hold fn, speak, then release fn to insert the text.
  5. For longer dictation, quick-tap fn, speak, and tap again to finish.

Prompt for your agent

In the repo tornikegomareli/Talkify, confirm that the README says recognition runs on-device with Apple's SpeechTranscriber. Report the one-line install command and the fn gesture that starts dictation. Verify that the README states Talkify makes no network requests.

Caveat. Dictated text is inserted by pasting, so it passes through the system clipboard for up to about half a second, where a clipboard manager or Universal Clipboard can see it.

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