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Speak it. Ship it. The first fully-local voice engine for vibe coding.
On-device Whisper + LLM — hold to talk, release to paste. No cloud. No compromise.

Language: English | 中文

Download

Download Talky DMG (latest release)

macOS Apple Silicon · Unsigned / not notarized — see install steps below.

How It Works

  1. Hold the Fn key to start recording
  2. Speak naturally
  3. Release — Talky transcribes your speech (Whisper) and refines it with a local LLM (Ollama)
  4. Text is pasted into the active app automatically

If no input field is focused, a floating copy panel appears so you can manually paste.

Install

  1. Download the .dmg from Releases
  2. Open the DMG, drag Talky to Applications
  3. First launch: macOS will block the app — go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway
  4. Grant Microphone and Accessibility permissions when prompted
  5. The setup wizard will guide you through installing Ollama, an AI model, and a speech model

Features

Vibe Coding Mode

Switch to Vibecoding in Dashboard → Configs to turn spoken ideas in any language into concise English prompts — ready to paste into Cursor, Claude, or any AI coding agent.

Vibecoding mode in Talky Dashboard

  • 100% Local — ASR + LLM run on your Mac, nothing is uploaded
  • Hold-to-Talk — simple press-and-hold interaction, no wake words
  • Smart Paste — auto-pastes into the active text field; fallback copy panel when no target
  • Custom Prompt — edit the LLM system prompt to match your writing style
  • Dictionary — add custom terms for better recognition of names, jargon, etc.
  • Multi-Mode — Local / Remote Ollama / Cloud server
  • Daily History — all transcriptions archived locally

Requirements

  • macOS (Apple Silicon: M1 / M2 / M3 / M4)
  • Ollama installed
  • ~10 GB free disk space (for AI + speech models)

Troubleshooting

App won't open?
System Settings → Privacy & Security → scroll down → click "Open Anyway".

No text output?
Make sure Ollama is running (ollama serve in Terminal).

Whisper model issues?
Delete ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/ and re-download through the app.

License

Private project. All rights reserved.

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