Thanks for the quick turnaround — I’ve pushed the fix to the release branch and it should go out with 0.0.18.
Speak. It’s already typed.
Glaze is push-to-talk dictation for macOS that runs entirely on your Mac. Hold the chord, say the sentence, release — the transcript lands in whatever app you were already in. Audio is processed in memory and discarded. No cloud, no account, no telemetry.
Try the gesture
Hold ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ on your own keyboard, or press the keys above.
Whatever app has focus. Glaze types into it.
The model runs on your Mac.
The recognizer, the model weights and the audio all stay on the machine. On Apple Silicon the work goes to the Neural Engine. On an Intel Mac it runs on the CPU, which works and is a good deal slower. You pick the accuracy you want and Glaze downloads that model once.
After you release, the mic stream stays warm for a few seconds so the next press doesn’t pay a cold start. If you dictate in long sessions you can stretch that to a full minute in Settings.
Accuracy
Fast
Quickest responses · best for short, clean English.
Balanced
Multilingual. Best quality/speed trade-off for most users.
Accurate
Highest accuracy · slowest · best on a plugged-in Mac.
Six languages, or let it work that out.
English
Deutsch
Nederlands
Español
Italiano
Norsk
Auto-detect
Add names, jargon and spelling corrections to the Dictionary and Glaze gets them right every time. Corrections run on-device and only ever replace a word.
It fixes your text. It never writes your text.
Glaze punctuates and capitalises, drops filler syllables
(um, uh, äh), applies your Dictionary, writes spoken numbers
as digits (“thirty five” becomes 35), and turns a
question into a question. All of it deterministic. It never
adds or removes a word of its own.
A generative cleanup pass was built, measured, and deleted. A model that can rewrite your sentence can also invent one you never said.
Every transcript is kept locally, and hidden by default.
Hidden by default. Nothing here has left this device. There is no hover-reveal either, because a transcript you dictated in a meeting should not appear just because the pointer drifted.
Then run the gesture backwards.
Glaze can clone your voice on your own Mac and read text back in it. You record once, training runs locally, and the voice never leaves the machine: not the recording, not the model, not the text you have it read.
It speaks the languages Glaze dictates in, with numbers and decimals read the way that language reads them: “12,5 Prozent” comes out as zwölf Komma fünf Prozent, not as two separate numbers in an English accent.
Apple Silicon only
~2.5 GB, downloaded once
Read it back
“The release notes are ready for review whenever you have a moment.”
A demonstration of the interface, not a recording. There is no audio on this page. Cloning happens on your Mac, from your own voice.
What actually leaves your Mac.
There is no account to make and no server that stores your audio. Two things do reach the network, and both are named below.
Stays on your Mac
- Your audio. Processed in memory and discarded; keeping recordings is opt-in and off by default.
- Every transcript, with which app it went to, in a local history.
- Recognizer models, downloaded once and kept on the device.
- Your Dictionary of names, jargon and corrections.
- Your voice recording and the voice model trained from it.
Leaves your Mac
- A check for a new version, about 30 seconds after launch and then once a day. Turn it off in Settings → General and updates become manual from the About pane.
- License activation, once Glaze is no longer free.
That is the list. No telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting, no account.
Everything good here costs something.
Inside the app, every setting states its trade-off next to its benefit. Same here.
What you get
What it costs, and what you can change
Transcription that never touches a network.
Models are a one-time download and they take real disk space. Nothing works until the first one has finished.
You choose which one. Settings → Dictation sets the tier, and only the tier you pick is downloaded.
The next sentence doesn’t pay a cold start.
The mic stream stays warm for 5 seconds after each release, which costs a little battery. You can stretch it to a full minute. Trade-off: on Bluetooth headphones music then stays paused for that whole window.
The long window is a switch in Settings → Audio, and it is off unless you turn it on. The 5-second one is not optional: a zero-length window made every press pay a cold start and swallowed the opening words.
Your own voice, reading your own text.
About 2.5 GB of models, downloaded once. Apple Silicon only. It will not run on an Intel Mac.
Entirely optional. Nothing is downloaded until you open Settings → Voices and set it up, and dictation does not need it.
Types into any app you have focused.
macOS has to let it. Glaze needs Microphone, Accessibility, and Input Monitoring for a modifier-only chord. It tells you exactly which System Settings pane to open.
Input Monitoring is the one you can avoid: bind a hotkey that includes a real key rather than modifiers alone in Settings → Shortcuts and it is never asked for. Microphone and Accessibility are not optional: without them there is no audio and nowhere to type.
Cleanup you can predict.
It will punctuate a clumsy sentence. It will not rewrite one for you, because the pass that could do that could also invent words you never said.
On by default, and switchable. Settings → Dictation turns cleanup off if you would rather have the transcript exactly as it was decoded.
You can see it hearing you as you talk.
Costs about a quarter of the speech engine while you hold the key. It backs off on long recordings, so the preview updates less often the longer you talk.
Switch it off in Settings → Dictation and that quarter goes back to the machine. The preview never reaches the transcript either way: the finished text is decoded again from the start.
Free while Glaze is in early access.
It won’t be free forever. Whether it becomes a one-time purchase or a subscription is not decided yet. Either way the licenses are perpetual and verified on your device, with no account, and they keep working even if the licensing service is ever discontinued.
Nothing to switch here.
A Mac app built like a Mac app.
Only a Mac app. macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon or Intel. Windows and Linux are written in the codebase but have never shipped, so don’t plan around them.
Nothing to switch here.
Try it on your own Mac.
The first launch walks you through the permissions macOS needs and lets you pick a model. Most of that time is the model download.
Download Glaze
A signed, notarised .dmg. Free while in early access.
v0.0.16 · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon or Intel
Or wait for 1.0
One email when Glaze reaches 1.0, and one when pricing is settled. Nothing else, and the address is never passed on.
Submitting stores your address for those two emails. You can have it deleted at any time — see the privacy notice.