Transcription stays home
The hard part — turning your speech into words — runs entirely on your Mac. Your audio is never uploaded to be transcribed. Full stop.
Segan Bark · voice-to-text for Mac
Press a key. Talk.
The clean text is already there.
Segan Bark turns messy speech into polished, ready-to-paste text — in any app on your Mac. Your voice becomes text on your own machine. No account, no paywall, no “um.”
macOS · Apple Silicon · Free while in beta
⌥Space hold to talk
“so um can you send the, the invoice to noah today”
↓ cleaned
Can you send the invoice to Noah today?
Three seconds, start to finish.
No setup ritual. No cloud account. You press, you talk, the text is there.
- 01 01 ⌥
Press a key
Hold your hotkey — or set it once and go fully hands-free. A subtle overlay shows it’s listening.
- 02 02
Just talk
Say it the way you’d say it to a person. Ramble, restart, think out loud. It’s built for real speech.
- 03 03
Clean text appears
Polished, paste-ready text lands right where your cursor is — email, Slack, your editor, anywhere.
Privacy, said honestly
Your voice becomes text
on your own Mac.
We’ll be straight with you about what touches the internet and what doesn’t — because most “private” apps aren’t, and won’t tell you which part.
Cleanup is the only cloud step
The optional AI cleanup that polishes your text is the one thing that can use the cloud — and it’s yours to switch off. Turn it off and Segan Bark never phones home.
Small app. Sharp where it counts.
AI cleanup
Strips “um,” “uh,” and false starts, fixes punctuation, tidies the grammar. You paste finished text, not a raw transcript.
Knows your words
Teach it your jargon once. “n8n,” “Klaviyo,” “Shopify,” your product names — spelled right, every single time.
Hold or hands-free
Push-to-talk when you want control, or a toggle hotkey when your hands are busy. Your call.
Self-healing
If one AI model hiccups or refuses, it quietly falls through to the next. Worst case, you still get the raw transcript.
Works in every app
It types where your cursor already is. No copy, no paste, no switching windows.
Your history, local
Every dictation saved on your machine — searchable, private, and yours to delete.
The math
~3× faster than typing
You speak around 150 words a minute. You type maybe 40. Segan Bark hands you the gap back — every email, every doc, every day.
If you think faster than you type.
Developers
Dictate commit messages, PR descriptions, and that long Slack reply without leaving the keyboard.
Writers & founders
Draft at the speed you think. Emails, docs, posts, first drafts — talked out, then cleaned up.
Anyone who hates typing
If your brain runs faster than your fingers, this closes the gap.
Simple pricing.
Transcription always free.
On-device dictation is free and unlimited, forever. You only pay for the AI cleanup — and only if you want it.
Free
Try the magic $0 forever
- Unlimited on-device transcription
- Works fully offline
- 25 AI cleanups / month
- No account needed
Pro
Daily drivers $10 /mo
- Everything in Free
- 2,000 AI cleanups / month — more than you’ll use
- Custom vocabulary
- Hands-free + push-to-talk
- Priority support
Power
Power users $25 /mo
- Everything in Pro
- 5,000 AI cleanups / month
- Highest monthly cleanup pool
- Built for all-day, heavy dictation
Private beta · free while it lasts · at launch: Pro $10/mo · Power $25/mo · cancel anytime
Stop typing what
you could just say.
Get on the early-access list and we’ll send you the build the moment it’s ready for you.
macOS · Apple Silicon · on-device transcription