On-device dictation for macOS
Your voice is the fastest way to type.
Thoughts move faster than fingers. You already know what to say. Bolo turns it into clean text, right where your cursor is, on your Mac.
Free, no account, no cloud. Hold the right ⌥, speak, release.
Reply and let them know we are on track for Friday.
Live, as you speak. It types where your cursor already is.
The world runs on text
Modern work still runs on text.
Email, notes, a chat box, commit messages, a prompt box, the terminal. On your Mac, almost everything you do still starts with typing.
The friction
The keyboard is where it slows down.
You know what to say. The keyboard makes you pause, backspace, and sometimes lose the thought before it lands. Most people type around forty words a minute and speak closer to a hundred and fifty.
Illustrative averages. Yours depend on what you write and how fast you talk. The gap is the point.
The bridge
From sound to text, wherever you need it.
Speak, and your voice becomes clean text in real time, right where your cursor is. Mail, your editor, a chat box, the terminal. If there is a text field, your voice can fill it, even where paste is blocked.
Real numbers
Text is still the destination.
Bolo just makes getting there feel natural. It keeps the tally on your Mac, so the time you save is measured, not promised.
Real numbers from one Mac. 135 words, about two minutes saved, 150 words a minute.
How it works
Four steps, and three of them you never notice.
No window, no panel. The text lands in the field you were already in, so you stay in your flow.
Speak
Hold your key and talk, the way you would to a person.
Convert
Your words become text on your Mac, as you speak.
Refine
Filler drops, punctuation lands, your names come out right.
Send or save
Already in your email, your editor, your terminal. Carry on.
What it does
It shapes what you said, without changing what you meant.
Speech is messy. You restart, you say um, you trail off. Bolo keeps your meaning and clears the rest, so the line reads like you wrote it, not like a recording of you thinking.
um so like, can you send him the uh the codecs thing before, before Friday
Can you send him the Codex file before Friday?
When it mishears a name, you fix it once where it landed. Bolo remembers, so the word comes out right next time, in your editor and browser the same as in Mail. One click to undo. You stay the author.
It runs on your Mac. Nothing leaves it.
Dictation hears everything you write, so where it runs matters. Bolo runs on your machine. Your voice is never sent anywhere, because there is nowhere for it to go.
On-device
The speech models run locally. No audio is uploaded, and your history stays on your Mac.
No account
No sign-up, no cloud, no subscription. Download it and start talking.
You stay in charge
It suggests, you decide. Every correction it learns is one click to undo.
Your voice is the fastest way to type.
Say it once, use it anywhere. Download Bolo, hold a key, and start talking.