Welcome
Hold a key.
Speak.
Watch it type.
Voice typing in any app — and AI notes, action items, and summaries from your meetings. All private, all on this machine. Let's get you to your first words in under a minute.
Step 2 · System check
Let's make sure your is ready
HoldSpeak needs a couple of things from the OS. We check them live — grant what's missing and they'll turn green here.
Step 3 · Intelligence
How smart should it be?
Basic typing works with nothing extra. Add a model and HoldSpeak rewrites rough speech into clean, project-aware text. Change it anytime.
Step 4 · The moment
Try your first dictation
Click into any text field, hold , say a sentence, and release.
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Don't have it working yet? Troubleshoot in setup or .
It worked.
Your words landed in the app — typed for you, on this machine.
Step 5 · On your desktop
See it working while you type elsewhere
An optional ambient HUD shows what HoldSpeak is doing — listening · transcribing · typing — and never steals your keyboard.
🔒 Never takes keyboard focus — your keystrokes keep landing where you're typing.
Not installed yet? Add the optional native extra:
No environment variable, no relaunch from a terminal — it's a real setting now.
You're set
That's it — HoldSpeak is yours
Hold your hotkey anywhere to type with your voice, or start a meeting to capture notes and action items. Everything stays on this machine.