SvaraDownload for macOSPrivate dictation for macOS
Speak.
Stay in flow.
Turn your voice into clean text directly on your Mac. Fast, private, and without cloud inference.
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LIVE LOCALLYThe shortcut
One shortcut. One thought. Done.
Svara gets out of the way. Focus a field, speak, and return to the work already in front of you.
From voice to text
Your ideas should move as fast as you do.
The waveform compresses. The thought stays.
Local by design
Your voice never needs to leave your Mac.
After setup, Svara runs speech recognition locally. No cloud inference. No API keys. No transcript history.
A quieter way to write
Small details. A much better flow.
Svara is opinionated about the moments that matter: less setup, less context switching, more of your actual thought.
Local by design
Speech recognition runs on your Mac after setup.
Shortcut first
Press ⌘ ⌥ D and start speaking.
Personal dictionary
Keep names, tools, and terms formatted your way.
Automatic paste
Your result returns to the field you were already using.
Mic only when needed
The microphone opens only during active dictation.
No account required
No API key. No cloud account. No transcript history.
Performance
Built to feel immediate.
Measured on Apple M4 with 16 GB RAM. The model stays ready, so your next thought does not wait for a reload.
Local measurements. Performance varies by hardware, audio length, and system state.
The persistent worker
The model stays ready. The microphone doesn’t.
Svara keeps Faster Whisper Tiny resident in a persistent local worker, so each dictation does not reload the model. The microphone still opens only when you explicitly start dictating.
Personal dictionary
Your words.
Your way.
Define the terms you use most. Svara applies them locally during cleanup, so names and tools come out right the first time.
In the flow
See Svara in flow.
One shortcut, from the first word to the final paste.
Open source
Built in the open.
Svara is a small, focused stack with the local boundary in plain sight.
Stop typing every thought.
Start speaking.
Download Svara for Apple Silicon Macs.
Current builds are not yet Apple notarized.