Nodio for Mac
Hold Fn, speak in Indian English, and your words land in any app. Whisper runs on your Mac, so your voice never leaves it.
Free and open source. macOS 13.3 or later. Apple silicon recommended.
One key starts it. The text goes in where your cursor is, in Mail, Slack, VS Code, WhatsApp, or any other app.
Nodio runs whisper.cpp with Metal. Pick Small for speed, Medium for balance, or Large v3 Turbo for the best accuracy with Indian accents. The model downloads one time. After that, dictation works offline.
Hold the key while you talk. Or double-tap it, speak as long as you like, and tap once to stop.
Pick one language. Hinglish writes Hindi in Latin letters.
Casual in Slack and WhatsApp. Formal in Mail and Outlook. Code-safe in Xcode, VS Code, and Terminal, with no extra full stops. Change the style for any app in Settings.
Search, copy, and export past dictations. See words per day and the time you saved. Everything stays on this Mac, and you can delete any of it.
Add names, places, and tech terms to your vocabulary. Whisper gets them as hints.
Say "my email" or "my address". Nodio types the saved text.
Pick the input and test its level. Silero voice detection skips silence, so you get fewer stray words.
Nodio has no account, no server, and no analytics. Audio stays in memory while you speak and is gone when you stop.
Speak punctuation and edits as you go. Say "delete that" or "undo" on its own to fix the last insert.
| You say | You get |
|---|---|
| "new line" | A line break |
| "new paragraph" | A blank line |
| "full stop", "comma", "question mark" | . , ? |
| "open bracket" ... "close bracket" | ( ... ) |
| "delete that" | Erases the last text Nodio typed |
| "undo" | ⌘Z in the front app |
| "my email" | Your saved snippet |
A small pill appears at the top of the screen and shows your words as you speak.
Whisper decodes your audio on the Mac every 1.2 seconds while you talk.
A last full pass runs, then commands, snippets, and the app style apply.
The text goes in at your cursor. If there is no text field, it goes on your clipboard.
Prefer another key? Use Right Option, Right Command, or Right Control. Key combos such as ⌘C never start a recording.
Get Nodio.dmg from GitHub, open it, and drag Nodio into Applications.
Nodio is not from the App Store, so macOS asks before it opens. What you see depends on your macOS version.
Control-click Nodio in Applications, choose Open, then click Open again. You do this one time.
Do not click it. Open Terminal and run this command, then open Nodio again:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Nodio.app
On first launch, a window walks you through three steps. It shows a check mark for each one when it is done.
While the model downloads, the menu bar icon shows a download arrow. Open the guide again at any time from the menu: Setup Guide.
Click in any text field and try it. Open Settings from the menu bar to pick a model, a hotkey, or a language.
Only to download the model one time and to check GitHub for updates. Dictation itself works offline.
Nodio is tuned for one accent so it can do it well. The prompt, the default model, and Hinglish mode all target Indian English speakers. Other English accents still work, with less tuning.
macOS 13.3 or later. Any Apple silicon Mac runs Large v3 Turbo well. On Intel Macs, pick the Small model in Settings.
The last 1000 are in ~/Library/Application Support/Nodio on your Mac. Delete one, or all of them, from the History tab.
Yes. The pill shows them while you speak, and the text goes in when you release. Turn on Live Typing if you want words typed as you talk.
Yes. Nodio is MIT licensed, and the source is on GitHub.