What you said
uh I think we should probably move this meeting to tomorrow
What ShabdaTara inserts
I think we should probably move this meeting to tomorrow.
Star of Words
Your voice.
Your words.
Your Mac.
Speak naturally. ShabdaTara turns your voice into writing, on this Mac. Local-first. No account. No API key.
Download for Mac
Coming soon for Windows
macOS 14 or later · Apple Silicon · Windows coming soon
Listening
On this Mac
uh I think we should probably move this meeting to tomorrow
ShabdaTara
I think we should probably move this meeting to tomorrow.
Inserted at the cursor.
Speak instead of type.
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Mic
Hold Right Option, or the shortcut you set.
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Voice
ShabdaTara listens while you hold it.
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ShabdaTara
Transcription runs on this Mac.
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Words
The sentence lands at the cursor.
Mac · Local-first
Don’t type. Speak.
Hold a shortcut, talk naturally, and ShabdaTara turns speech into writing where you already work.
What you said
uh I think we should probably move this meeting to tomorrow
ShabdaTara
I think we should probably move this meeting to tomorrow.
Writing cleanup
The sentence, not the stumble.
English cleanup can drop fillers, finish punctuation, and keep the meaning. “Probably” stays.
Messages
Cursor is here
I think we should probably move this meeting to tomorrow.
Where you work
Typed at the cursor.
Speak in the app you already have open. ShabdaTara inserts there. No chat window.
- EnglishDeutschहिन्दीРусский
Languages
Speak in the language you chose.
English, German, Hindi, or Russian. Transcription, not translation.
Selected region
Not the whole screen
Kept with this dictation.
Screen context
A region you choose.
Optional. Capture a selected area while you dictate. Kept on this Mac, not uploaded.
Writing
The sentence, without the stumble.
This is the English path. German, Hindi, and Russian keep your wording. ShabdaTara only normalizes spacing and applies dictionary entries saved for that language.
- Conservative
- Natural
- Professional
- Casual
- Concise
- Developer
Fillers
“Uh” and “um” can come out. “Probably” and “actually” stay.
Punctuation
A line that reads as a sentence can gain a capital and a closing mark.
Self-correction
“John — I mean James.” can become “James.”
Your style
Conservative, Natural, Professional, Casual, Concise, or Developer. Cleanup does not change the facts.
Where you work
Your voice follows the cursor.
ShabdaTara is a voice layer for the Mac. It types into the app you already have open. If it cannot find a text field, it says so.
Where you type
Email
Speak, then release.
Where you type
Documents
Speak, then release.
Cursor is here
Messages
I think we should probably move this meeting to tomorrow.
Where you type
Code
Speak, then release.
Where you type
Browser
Speak, then release.
Where you type
Notes
Speak, then release.
These are places you already type. ShabdaTara does not ship a separate plugin for each app.
Screen context
A region you choose.
Screen context stays off until you turn it on. While you dictate, you select a region. ShabdaTara keeps that image on this Mac, with the dictation. Text in the image is read on the device. It is not treated as words you spoke, and it is not uploaded.
Cancel discards a capture that is still in progress. Dictation still inserts if capture fails.
Selected region
Not the whole screen
The image stays with this dictation.
Spoken words
The sentence you said.
Read from the image
Kept on this Mac, separate from speech.
Four languages
Speak in the language that fits.
You pick one language. ShabdaTara transcribes it. It does not translate.
- ENEnglish
- DEDeutsch
- HIहिन्दी
- RUРусский
Privacy
Your voice stays close.
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Your voice
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Your Mac
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ShabdaTara
On this Mac
After the model is on disk, transcription stays here. ShabdaTara does not send audio or text to a cloud speech service.
When the network is used
Internet is for a model download or repair you choose, and for installer updates from this site. The download is the model file, not your transcript.
What stays here
History, dictionary, styles, notes, and settings live in ~/Library/Application Support/ShabdaTara/ There is no required account and no API key.
Workflows
Built for how you work.
Writing
Draft faster than you type
Speak the thought. English cleanup and a style you choose finish the sentence without changing the facts.
Coding
Keep technical words intact
Developer style can format spoken case names and symbols. It does not write the program for you.
Messaging
Reply without leaving the app
The words land at the cursor in the app you already have open. ShabdaTara does not open a chat.
Notes
Keep a local trail
History and notes stay on this Mac. Search, copy, or delete them. Empty history stays empty.
The app
A menu-bar app, not a chat window.
ShabdaTara lives in the menu bar. Home, History, Dictionary, Styles, Language, and Settings are there when you need them. The listening bar stays on screen while you speak.
Listening
Hold Right Option. Speak. Release.
Voice bar
Listening stays in view.
Cancel inserts nothing. Confirm finishes, the same as letting go of the shortcut. Escape cancels too.
Recent
I think we should probably move this meeting to tomorrow.
Ship the loading state when the request fails.
History
Your words, kept locally.
Transcripts stay on this Mac. Search, copy, or delete them. Empty history stays empty.
- EnglishDefault
- DeutschModel required
- हिन्दीModel required
- РусскийModel required
Language
Pick the language you speak.
English, German, Hindi, or Russian. ShabdaTara transcribes. It does not translate.
Selected region
Optional
Kept with this dictation.
Screen
A region you choose.
Optional. Capture a selected area while you dictate. The rest of the screen is not recorded.
Drawn from the app’s structure. Not a screen capture.
Why ShabdaTara
Local-first
Speech is transcribed on your Mac once the model you need is on disk.
Voice-first
Hold a shortcut and talk in the app you already have open.
Multilingual
English, German, Hindi, or Russian. You choose. ShabdaTara does not translate.
Context-aware
When you want it, a region you select stays with the dictation. On this Mac.
No account
No required account and no API key. Available for Mac. Windows is coming soon.
Mac and Windows.
Mac uses a direct disk image download. Windows is coming soon and is not available to download yet.
Mac
macOS disk image
macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon. Download the DMG, drag ShabdaTara to Applications, then open it from the menu bar.
Windows
Coming soon
ShabdaTara for Windows is not available to download yet.
Coming soon for Windows
Not available to download yet.
Quick start
Up and speaking in minutes.
- 1Download ShabdaTara
- 2Allow Microphone and Accessibility
- 3Hold Right Option and speak
Direct download · no account required.
Questions
What is ShabdaTara?
A menu-bar app for Mac. Hold a shortcut, speak, and ShabdaTara transcribes on your Mac, cleans English locally, and inserts the text where you were already typing. It does not open a chat.
Is my voice processed locally?
Transcription runs on the Mac. English uses a local Parakeet model, then Apple’s on-device English speech if needed. German, Hindi, and Russian use a local Whisper model after you install it. ShabdaTara does not send dictation audio or transcripts to a cloud speech service.
Does ShabdaTara work offline?
After the speech model you need is already on disk, dictation does not require a network. Internet is used when you choose to download or repair a model. That transfer is the model file, not your transcript. Installer updates are downloaded from this site.
Which languages are supported?
English, German, Hindi, and Russian. You pick one in Settings. ShabdaTara transcribes that language. It does not translate. German, Hindi, and Russian need the multilingual model from Settings → Models. Automatic language detection is not available.
Does ShabdaTara work on Windows?
Not yet. ShabdaTara for Windows is coming soon and is not available to download. Mac uses ShabdaTara-macOS.dmg from this site.
What permissions does it need?
Microphone, to hear you. Accessibility, to type into other apps. Screen Recording is optional and is used only when you select a region. Speech Recognition is used only if English dictation uses Apple’s on-device engine.
Where are recordings and transcripts stored?
On this Mac, in ~/Library/Application Support/ShabdaTara/. Temporary dictation audio is deleted after transcription unless you turn on Keep audio files. History, notes, dictionary, styles, and screenshots stay in that folder. ShabdaTara does not upload them.
Stop typing every thought.
Speak naturally. Keep the words. Download ShabdaTara for Mac from this site.