Every screen of YapToText 1.5.4, captured on a Mac with demo data, in dark appearance and then light. Each section links to the guide for that part of the app. The app's own screens also come in 26 other languages, picked in Settings, General.
This app is completely free. You don't have to make an account. There are no subscriptions, no difficult downloads, and nothing is locked. Made for Apple silicon Macs. Source on GitHub.
The Dictation page holds the key, when a recording stops, quiet speech, and Intelligent Insert with the apps it leaves alone. The first dictation guide starts here.
Figure 1. The Dictation page: the key, when recording stops, quiet speech, and Intelligent Insert, which skips terminals.Figure 2. The Dictation page: the key, when recording stops, quiet speech, and Intelligent Insert, which skips terminals, in light mode.
The pop-ups
The dictation pop-up comes in three layouts, Expanded, Compact and Mini, in any color, and the number keys switch modes while you talk. The pop-up guide covers each setting.
Figure 3. The Expanded pop-up shows your words as they are heard.Figure 4. The Compact pop-up: the waveform with stop and cancel.Figure 5. The Mini pop-up: only the waveform.Figure 6. Switch modes mid-dictation with the number keys.
Quick Edit
Select text anywhere, press the Quick Edit key and say the change. The card shows what it heard, works on the Mac, and says Done. The Quick Edit guide has the steps.
Figure 7. The Quick Edit page sets the key and where the card opens.Figure 8. The Quick Edit page sets the key and where the card opens, in light mode.Figure 9. The Quick Edit card shows your instruction in quotes as it hears it.Figure 10. The card while the edit is made on the Mac.Figure 11. Done: the selection has been replaced.
Modes and AI Actions
A mode is the recipe for what happens to your words after you stop talking, and an AI Action rewrites text you already have. See modes and AI Actions.
Figure 12. The built-in modes. Each one is a recipe for what happens to your words after you stop talking.Figure 13. The built-in modes. Each one is a recipe for what happens to your words after you stop talking, in light mode.Figure 14. AI Actions rewrite selected text in any app, on the Mac, from the menu bar or the Utility page.Figure 15. AI Actions rewrite selected text in any app, on the Mac, from the menu bar or the Utility page, in light mode.
Your words
Dictionaries keep every way a name gets misheard, and Commands turn a phrase into punctuation or saved text. See dictionaries and snippets.
Figure 16. Dictionaries: each word keeps every way it gets misheard in one folder.Figure 17. Dictionaries: each word keeps every way it gets misheard in one folder, in light mode.Figure 18. Commands turn a phrase you say into punctuation or a saved piece of text.Figure 19. Commands turn a phrase you say into punctuation or a saved piece of text, in light mode.
History and statistics
History keeps every dictation with its receipt: what the speech model heard and what was inserted. Statistics adds it up. See history.
Figure 20. History keeps every dictation with its mode, app and time, ready to regenerate, copy or insert again.Figure 21. History keeps every dictation with its mode, app and time, ready to regenerate, copy or insert again, in light mode.Figure 22. Every dictation's receipt: what was heard, what the mode did, and what was inserted.Figure 23. Every dictation's receipt: what was heard, what the mode did, and what was inserted, in light mode.Figure 24. Statistics: how much you dictated and how fast you talk.Figure 25. Statistics: how much you dictated and how fast you talk, in light mode.
Models, energy and the Utility page
Both models run on the Mac. The Energy page decides how long they stay loaded, and the Utility page chains dictation, file transcription and AI Actions on one workbench. See models and transcribing a file.
Figure 26. The AI Models page. Every model runs on the Mac.Figure 27. The AI Models page. Every model runs on the Mac, in light mode.Figure 28. The Energy page decides how much the app keeps ready while you are not talking.Figure 29. The Energy page decides how much the app keeps ready while you are not talking, in light mode.Figure 30. The Utility page chains everything: dictate or drop a file, reformat it with a mode, finish it with an action.Figure 31. The Utility page chains everything: dictate or drop a file, reformat it with a mode, finish it with an action, in light mode.
The menu bar
The menu bar panel has the mode, the microphone, Transcribe file, Regenerate and your last three dictations, and its icon comes in five styles. See the menu bar guide.
Figure 32. The menu bar popover: the mode, the microphone, and your recent dictations.Figure 33. The menu bar icon comes in five styles: capybara, microphone, waveform, bubble and dot.
Settings and the welcome tour
Settings > About shows the version. The welcome tour walks through what a mode does, the dictation key, and privacy before your first dictation.
Figure 34. Settings > About shows the version you have.Figure 35. The first screen after opening the app.Figure 36. The welcome tour shows what a mode does before you pick one.Figure 37. Pick the key that starts a dictation.Figure 38. No account and no cloud.Figure 39. The last step asks what to call you, for email sign-offs.
About the author. I am Ryleigh Newman, and I make YapToText. My hands do not work well enough to type for long, so I dictate nearly everything, and I built this app because I needed it. More about me and the app.
This app is completely free. You don't have to make an account. There are no subscriptions, no difficult downloads, and nothing is locked. Made for Apple silicon Macs. Source on GitHub.
