macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon

Talk to your computer,
don't type.

Voice to text with smart cleanup, live translation, and meeting summaries. No cloud. No subscription. Your voice never leaves your Mac.

Download Free

100 free dictations · 10 meeting recordings · No credit card

or install via brew install muvon/tap/vext

macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · No account required

How it works

Three steps. No setup. No account.

1

Hold the hotkey

Press and hold your configured shortcut. Vext starts listening instantly.

2

Speak naturally

Talk at normal speed in any app. Your voice is transcribed in real time, locally.

3

Release to paste

Let go. Text appears at your cursor — wherever you are. No copy-paste needed.

Speak messy.
Get clean text.

Vext automatically cleans up your speech — removes filler words, fixes structure, keeps your intent intact. Same language, same meaning, just polished. Works alongside translation in a single pass.

  • Removes filler words (um, uh, like, so)
  • Restructures for clarity without changing meaning
  • Preserves your original language and tone
  • Combines with translation in one step
What you said

"so um I was thinking we should uh probably move the deadline to like next Friday because ah the team needs more time to finish the uh the integration tests"

What gets pasted

"We should move the deadline to next Friday — the team needs more time to finish the integration tests."

Your voice never leaves your Mac.

No audio uploaded. No cloud transcription. No account. This isn't a privacy policy — it's architecture.

100% Local

Whisper runs directly on your Apple Silicon GPU. All processing stays on-device.

No Internet Required

Works offline, on an airplane, behind a firewall. No connection needed, ever.

Zero Data Collection

No analytics. No telemetry. No accounts. We never see your audio or transcriptions.

Capture screenshots while recording.

Drag to select any area of your screen during a voice recording. Screenshots are automatically attached to your transcript — perfect for adding visual context to code reviews, bug reports, or design feedback.

  • Drag a rectangle while holding the hotkey
  • Multiple screenshots per recording
  • Auto-attached to your transcript
Screenshot capture area

Try free. Pay once. Use forever.

100 free dictations and 10 meeting recordings to start. Then one price, unlimited use.

Best Value

Vext

$49 once

$0 in year 2

  • Runs locally on-device
  • No account required
  • Meeting transcription
  • Lifetime access
  • Free updates within version

Cloud voice tools

$10–30 /month

$120–360/year

  • Cloud-dependent
  • Account required
  • Usage caps
  • Subscription only
  • Privacy trade-offs

Unlock from within the app when you're ready. Free updates included. Major new versions at 50% off for existing owners.

Transcription with zero wait.

Vext transcribes locally in real-time — no upload, no server, no spinner. Your words are already there.

150x realtime

60 seconds of audio transcribed in ~400ms. On-device.

Parakeet local
150x
Apple local
25x
Gemini cloud
23x
OpenAI cloud
22x
AssemblyAI cloud
20x
Alex 00:12

Let's review the Q3 roadmap and figure out priorities.

Sarah 00:28

I think we should focus on the API redesign first. It's blocking three other teams.

Alex 00:45

Agreed. Can we have a draft by end of next week?

Meeting transcription.
And the summary.

Record any meeting — Zoom, Google Meet, FaceTime, or in-person — and get a full transcript with speaker identification. Turn on Summarize to extract key points and action items. Both versions are always saved.

  • Speaker diarization and labeling
  • System audio + microphone capture
  • AI-powered key points and action items
  • Raw transcript always preserved

Speak one language.
Type another.

Talk in English, get the text in Russian. Or Spanish. Or Japanese. Vext translates your speech in real time as it transcribes — so the text that lands at your cursor is already in the language you need.

  • Real-time speech-to-translation
  • 99+ target languages
  • Works with any source language
  • Same hotkey workflow — just set your target language
English

"Let's schedule a meeting for next Tuesday to discuss the project roadmap and assign tasks to the team."

Russian

"Давайте назначим встречу на следующий вторник, чтобы обсудить план проекта и распределить задачи в команде."

Works everywhere you type.

Vext is a system-level service. It works in any text field, in any app — browsers, editors, terminals, email, chat.

AI Tools

Claude CodeChatGPTClaude.aiCursorCodex

Browsers

SafariChromeFirefoxArc

Editors

VS CodeXcodeSublime TextVim

Terminals

TerminaliTerm2WarpGhostty

Communication

SlackDiscordTelegramMessages

Productivity

NotionObsidianNotesGmail

YOLO Mode.

Turn it on and Vext automatically presses Return after pasting your transcription. Speak, release, and your prompt is already running.

Stop editing. Stop polishing. Just talk. LLMs know what you mean, even when your words aren't perfect.

YOLO Mode
Speak
Review transcript
Edit / fix mistakes
Press Return
Done

Audio ducking.

When you start recording, Vext automatically fades your system audio so your voice comes through clearly. Release the hotkey and volume returns to normal. No manual adjustment needed.

Playing music
Recording
Resumed

Choose your engines.

Pick the speech and AI models that fit your workflow. Run locally by default, or bring your own API key.

Speech-to-Text

ModelTypeSpeedSize
Parakeet Default NVIDIA NeMo — fast, accurate, optimized for Apple Silicon.Local150x RT~600 MB
Apple Foundation Built-in macOS speech recognition. Zero download.LocalRealtimeBuilt-in
Whisper Large-v3 OpenAI's open-source model. High accuracy, larger download.Local150x RT~3 GB
OpenAI Whisper API Cloud-based. Requires API key.APIFast—
Gemini Google's multimodal model. Requires API key.APIFast—

AI Processing Enhance · Translate · Summarize

ModelTypeSize
Qwen 3 4B Default Default. Runs locally for Enhance, translation, and meeting summaries.Local~2.5 GB
OpenAI API GPT-4o or GPT-4o mini. Requires API key.API—
Anthropic API Claude Sonnet or Haiku. Requires API key.API—

Built by Muvon.

Vext is built by Muvon Un Limited, a small product studio. We build tools we use every day — designed to work locally, respect your privacy, and get out of your way.

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