Cleans up as it goes.
Drops the ums, ers and repeated words, then adds the punctuation you'd have typed.
Hold fn.
Say it. Let go.
Murmur turns what you say into clean, punctuated text and pastes it wherever you're typing. Dictation happens on your Mac, with no account and no cloud. After a one-time model download, it works offline.
um so can you grab oat milk, er, eggs and the the sourdough from the place on the corner. Murmur tidies this to: Can you grab oat milk, eggs and the sourdough from the place on the corner?
Three steps. One key.
No app to switch to, no window to open. Murmur waits in the notch until you need it.
Hold fn.
Press and hold the fn key, wherever your cursor is.
Say it.
Talk the way you normally would. The notch shows it's listening.
Let go.
Murmur drops the ums, adds punctuation and pastes the text where you were typing.
Your words stay on your Mac.
Speech recognition and clean-up run on your Mac. Once the models are downloaded, dictation works offline.
Your voiceready when you are
Parakeet v3speech to text · on-device
LFM3tidies ums and punctuation · on-device
Your apppasted where you're typing
The cloud: not involved
No account.
Download it and start talking.
No uploads.
Dictation runs locally on your Mac.
Works offline.
After a one-time model download.
Runs on Apple Silicon.
Uses the Neural Engine and GPU your Mac already has.
Small app. Does the job properly.
Lives in the notch.
A quiet pill at the top of your screen shows when it’s listening, and nothing else.
Pastes anywhere.
Email, chat, docs, code: if there's a cursor, Murmur can fill it.
Knows your words.
Add names and jargon to the Dictionary and they come out right.
Works offline.
Dictation works without a connection after the models are downloaded.
At home in the notch and the menu bar.
Glance up to see what Murmur's doing.
- Listening, tidying and pasted states
- A live waveform and timer
- Gets out of the way when you're done
Teach it your names and jargon.
Add words a normal dictionary doesn't know, like people, products and acronyms, so Murmur can spell them your way.
“jerome dunkin”Jerome Duncan
“gee pee you eye”GPUI
“post gress”Postgres
“kubernetties”Kubernetes
Your Dictionary is stored on your Mac, like everything else.
If there's a cursor, Murmur can fill it.
Murmur pastes into the app you're already using, so there's nothing new to learn.
EmailNotesMessagesTeam chatDocsSpreadsheetsCalendarBrowserCode editorTerminalTicketsDesign toolsSearch barsFormsJournalsSlides
Works in most apps that accept pasted text. Some secure fields, like password boxes, block pasting by design.
Questions, answered.
Does anything leave my Mac?
Speech recognition and clean-up run on your Mac. Once the models are downloaded, you don't need an internet connection to dictate.
Which Macs does it work on?
Macs with Apple Silicon (M1 or later) running macOS 26 or later. Intel Macs aren't supported.
Does it work offline?
Yes. After the one-time model download, dictation works without a connection.
Which apps does it work in?
Most apps where you can type and paste: email, chat, docs, code editors, browsers and so on. Some secure fields, like password boxes, block pasting.
What languages does it understand?
The default Parakeet v3 model supports 25 European languages. The optional Parakeet v2 model supports English.
Can I use a key other than fn?
Yes. Choose a different dictation shortcut during setup or in Settings.
What permissions does it need?
Microphone, Accessibility and Input Monitoring access. Murmur explains each permission during setup.
How much space do the models take?
The default speech model is about 460 MB and the clean-up model is about 1.1 GB.
What does the clean-up actually change?
It removes filler words like "um" and "er", fixes repeated words and adds punctuation and capitals. It doesn't rewrite what you meant.
Who makes Murmur?
Murmur is made by Bonus Objective.
