On-device dictation for Mac, with a clear privacy boundary.

People like talking instead of typing. The hesitation starts when the words are private: client names, contract details, therapy notes, business ideas, medical context, employee issues, or messy first drafts you would never knowingly hand to Big Tech.

• A private thought often starts as raw audio.
• Raw audio is usually more sensitive than the cleaned-up text.
• Generic cloud dictation makes private work feel like someone else's asset.

On Mac, the Parakeet recognition mode uses local model files and the Mac's local compute to turn speech into text. The initial model download is a setup step, not a transcription upload. Apple Speech is a separate recognition path, so its behavior should not be inferred from Parakeet.

• Parakeet recognition on Mac runs on-device after the required model files are available.
• Optional iCloud/CloudKit sync is separate from speech recognition and depends on enabled settings.
• This mode-specific description is not a legal, clinical, financial, or regulatory compliance guarantee.

Use it for client notes, patient context, legal drafts, business plans, private messages, and the ugly first drafts you want to keep in your own hands.

• Dictate client notes and emails.
• Think through business plans out loud.
• Capture long drafts without turning private speech into cloud exhaust.