Kekoso
Dictate into any Mac app, transcribe audio, video and YouTube links, record calls — all on-device.

About Kekoso
Voice to text on your Mac: dictate into any app, drop in a recording or a YouTube link, record a call and get both sides as text, and hand your AI agents a transcription server that runs locally. One purchase — no cloud, no subscription, no account.
Quick note before the deposition: the client confirmed the timeline, so we can file on Thursday.
Speech to text on a Mac usually means paying three or four services to cover it — one for dictation, one for calls, one for files, an API key for everything else. All of this runs on hardware you already own.
Press the hotkey, say it, and the text appears where your cursor already was — Mail, Slack, Cursor, a browser form. No per-app integration, no window to switch to.
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