Free · Private · On-device AI

Typing is overrated.
Just talk.

Echo Scribe is voice to text for your whole Mac. Press a hotkey, speak, and polished text appears wherever your cursor is. We spend our days prompting AI now, and prompts don't need perfect wording. They need your thinking, fast. Speaking is the fastest way to get it out.

Get voice to text free See how it builds up
Runs locally on your Mac No account or cloud backend Records only when you tell it to
How it builds up

It starts with voice to text. It ends with a memory of your work.

Each capture method feeds the next. First your voice replaces the keyboard. Then your meetings and screen recordings join in. Everything lands in one searchable place, and once it's all there, Echo Scribe can tell you what happened, what matters, and what to do next.

01 / SPEAK

Voice to text, everywhere

Press a hotkey and talk. Clean text lands in any app: AI chats, email, Slack, code.

02 / CAPTURE

Meetings and screens too

Record Zoom calls with live transcription and call guidance, and narrate screen recordings for clients.

03 / REMEMBER

One searchable memory

Every word is transcribed, tagged, and unified. No idea slips through, and the system knows what you're working on.

04 / UNDERSTAND

Answers and insights

Daily recaps, chat with your history, export to ChatGPT, and see what to automate next.

Step 1 · Voice to text

Your voice is the new keyboard.

Voice to text is the fastest way to work with AI. You don't need exact wording to prompt ChatGPT or Claude, you need the idea out of your head. Press a hotkey, speak naturally, and Echo Scribe puts clean, polished text at your cursor in any app on your Mac.

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Press the hotkey and speak Dictate into ChatGPT, Claude, Slack, Gmail, VS Code, anywhere your cursor is.
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Local AI cleans it up Filler words and false starts disappear. What lands is what you meant.
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Keep moving Text appears instantly at your cursor, or is saved as a note for later.
ChatGPT · New chat
Draft a proposal outline for Northstar: weekly progress reporting, a shared dashboard, and a monthly strategy call. Keep it under one page and end with three pricing options.
Recording… ⌃ Space
Step 2 · The trigger word

Say “echo” and your words format themselves.

Start a dictation with your trigger word and the AI takes instructions. Say “echo, format this as an email” and your stream of thought comes out as a clean email in your tone of voice. Formats, terminology, and the trigger word itself are fully customizable, and plain dictation stays instant because AI only steps in when you call it.

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Give it an instruction “Echo, format this as an email.” “Echo, turn this into bullet points.”
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Keep your tone The output is written the way you write, not like a template.
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Make it yours Rename the trigger word, add your terminology, define your own formats.
Step 3 · Meetings

Live transcription and call guidance, while you're on the call.

Echo Scribe notices when you join a Zoom, Meet, or Teams call and records it if you want it to. You get a live transcript as the call happens. Set up a template for what a great call looks like, a sales call, a discovery call, an interview, and Echo Scribe tracks what's been covered and suggests the next question in real time. When the call ends, the transcript, summary, decisions, and follow-ups are already saved. None of your ideas get missed.

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Record any meeting Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams are detected automatically. You choose per app: always record, ask first, or never.
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Get coached live Your template keeps the goal in view, checks off covered points, and suggests what to ask next.
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Walk away with everything Transcript, summary, decisions, and follow-ups flow straight into your work memory.
Step 4 · Screen recordings

Easier to show than to explain? Record your screen.

Walk a client through a proposal, hand a bug to a developer, or demo a new feature. Record your screen with narration and share the file. A quick video beats a long email, and often replaces a whole meeting. Your narration is transcribed like everything else, so even walkthroughs become searchable memory instead of files you lose track of.

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Hit record and talk it through Capture your screen and your voice in one take.
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Share with clients and teammates Send the video instead of scheduling another call.
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It's remembered The narration is transcribed and filed with the rest of your work.
Step 5 · One memory

Everything you say, hear, and show, in one place.

Dictations, meeting transcripts, and screen narrations all land in a single searchable memory on your Mac. Echo Scribe tags each capture, turns action items into tasks, and routes everything to the right project. The system knows what you're working on, and nothing you said in passing gets lost.

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Search every word Full-text search across every note, meeting, and recording.
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Organized without effort Notes, tasks, ideas, and decisions are classified and tagged automatically.
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Context that compounds The more you capture, the better it understands your projects.
Step 6 · Put it to work

Recaps, answers, and an honest look at your week.

This is the payoff. Get a daily recap of what you did, decided, and left open. Chat with your history: “what did we agree with Northstar about pricing?” Export anything and take it to ChatGPT. Then zoom out: where your time goes, whether you're in too many meetings, what deserves more focus, and which parts of your work AI could take over next.

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Daily recaps What happened, what was decided, and what's still open. Every day.
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Chat and export Ask your memory questions, or export it and use it with ChatGPT.
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Review and automate Spot repetitive work worth automating with AI, and meetings not worth keeping.
Use cases

Where it fits in your day.

One tool, a lot of jobs. Here's what Echo Scribe ends up doing for people.

Prompting AI

Talk your prompts into ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor. Rough wording is fine, speed is the point.

Sales and discovery calls

Live call guidance keeps every conversation on track, and the recap writes your follow-up for you.

Client walkthroughs

Screen record proposals, demos, and handoffs instead of scheduling another meeting.

Back-to-back meeting days

Every call transcribed and summarized. Find any decision in seconds, weeks later.

Personal knowledge base

Every idea captured and searchable. Chat with your history and get answers, not files.

Weekly reviews

See where your time went, what to drop, and what AI could automate for you next.

Privacy

Your work stays yours.

No cloud backend. No account. No data sold. Dictation, recordings, transcripts, and project context stay under your control on your Mac.

You start every recording

There is no always-on microphone. Dictation starts when you press the hotkey, and meetings and screen recordings start only when you say so.

Works fully offline

Models download once, then run locally forever. After setup, Echo Scribe works with no internet connection at all.

No account required

There is no sign-up, no license key, no tracking ID. Nothing is phoned home. Install and it works.

Your data, your folder

Notes live in a SQLite file on your Mac. Export it, back it up, or delete it — full control, always.

Stop typing. Start talking.

Open Terminal and paste the line below. No Homebrew required.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/desduvauchelle/echo-scribe/main/install.sh | bash
macOS 14 or later · Apple Silicon & Intel · Run again to update · ~2 GB for AI models (one-time download)