Verbative VoiceComing soon

A floating dictation button for macOS. Put your cursor in any field — an email, a chat box, a form, a code comment — click the button, and speak. The text lands right there, in whatever app you were already in. Every word is transcribed on your own device; the audio and text stay on your Mac.

Verbative Voice is a separate macOS app from the VS Code extension — but the same Verbative account. Sign in on one and you are signed in on the other.

Get it

Coming soon. The Verbative Voice macOS app is on its way. It is part of Code Advanced, or the Verbative Voice plan. See the plans.

First run

1. Sign in with your Verbative account (the same email-code login as the extension).
2. The speech model downloads once — about 1.6 GB. Verbative Voice transcribes with one model and only that model; there is no lower-quality fallback, so it fetches the real one the first time and shows the progress. If the Verbative VS Code extension already downloaded its dictation model, Verbative Voicereuses it — no second download.
3. Grant two permissions (see below). macOS asks for the microphone automatically; Accessibility you turn on by hand.

The two permissions

macOS asks for both on first use, and the app cannot work without them:

• Microphone— prompted automatically the first time you click the button, so it can hear you.
• Accessibility— needed to place the finished text into the app you were working in. macOS never prompts for this one; turn it on in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility. Until it is granted, dictation still works and the transcript still appears — only the final insert fails, with an in-panel explanation.

Using it

1. Click into the field you want text in — anywhere on your Mac.
2. Click the floating button (or press your keyboard shortcut, which works even when Verbative Voice is in the background). It starts listening; your caret stays put in the other app.
3. Speak. A live transcript appears under the button as you talk, so you are never guessing what was heard.
4. Read it, fix any word by hand if you like, then Insert— the text lands in the field you started from, and your clipboard is left exactly as it was. Or Cancel to discard.

Drag the button wherever you want it; right-click it (or use the menu-bar item) for settings, to hide it, or to quit.

Settings

• Dictation— the language (write what you speak, or always write English), how text is inserted (paste or type), and the keyboard shortcut.
• Microphone— pick an input or follow whichever one macOS is using; it also mutes the mic while a sound plays through speakers, and follows a headset when you plug one in mid-sentence.
• General— launch at login, the two permissions at a glance, and your account & plan.

Which plan you need

Verbative Voice is part of Code Advanced (it is included at no extra cost), or you can get it on its own with the Verbative Voice plan. Either way it starts with a 14-day free trial. See the plans.

Your voice never leaves your Mac

Speech is transcribed on your own hardware. Nothing is recorded, and it keeps working on a plane with the Wi-Fi off — the sentence you just dictated exists nowhere but on your Mac.