Push-to-talk on the Fn key
Hold the Fn (or Globe) key and speak. Release to insert the transcribed text wherever your cursor is. Double-tap to lock recording on for hands-free use — tap again to stop. You can rebind to any shortcut from Settings.
Features
Every feature in ParlaParla exists to take the friction out of talking to your Mac. Here's what's in the app today.
Five levels of AI enhancement
Choose how much ParlaParla tidies your speech: raw, light cleanup, full polish, custom prompt, or translate. Custom prompt lets you set your tone once and forget — "write like a senior engineer," "no filler words," "translate to English," anything you want.
Custom dictionary
Teach ParlaParla the words it gets wrong. Product names, colleagues, technical jargon, Danish towns. The dictionary is applied after transcription, so it works even for words the underlying model has never seen.
On-the-fly translation
Speak in Danish, get English. Speak in French, get Italian. Translation happens as part of the AI enhancement step, so there's no extra latency for you.
Multilingual interface
The app is localized into eight languages: English, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish, German, French, Spanish, and Italian. Transcription supports 57 languages via OpenAI's gpt-4o-transcribe model.
Menu-bar native
ParlaParla lives in your menu bar, not your dock. A subtle overlay pill shows your transcription status. Native SwiftUI means it feels exactly like part of macOS.
Start dictating today
Free on the Mac App Store. $19 once for Pro with auto-paste. $9.99/mo for Cloud — we handle OpenAI for you.
Get ParlaParlamacOS 26 Tahoe or later