Pines Voice is dictation for macOS that works inside whatever app you happen to be using. Hold the right ⌥ key, say the sentence, let go. Nothing opens, nothing is pasted, and you never leave what you were doing.
Ship it before Friday and tell the team it’s ready.
Typed at the caret, in the window that still had focus.
Pines Voice keeps this log on your Mac. The session below is made up for the page; the columns are the real ones.
“Hold the right option key, say what you want written, and let go. It turns up in whatever app you were already using, exactly where the cursor was sitting.”
The gesture never changes: hold to talk, tap once to latch it on, Esc to throw the recording away. It behaves the same in every app because all it does is type, so nothing needs integrating one app at a time.
“This one never touched the network. Whisper is running on the Mac’s own GPU, with no key and no account involved.”
Three quantized models download inside the app. Take the machine offline and every one of them still works.
“When you would rather use the cloud, it runs on your own API key and prints what each dictation cost you.”
The key lives in the macOS Keychain and talks to the provider directly. Nothing routes through us, the money included.
“And the log you are reading right now would only ever exist on your own machine.”
Transcripts, word counts and spend are computed on device. We run no server that could receive them, so this is a fact about how it is built and there is nothing to take on trust.
Neither one runs through us. One needs nothing at all; the other needs a key you already own.
Coming soon.