What people use oto for
One app, a lot of jobs: meetings, manuscripts, quick voice typing, and transcribing files you already have. Every workflow below runs on-device by default, so pick the one that looks like yours.
Meeting transcription
Record long meetings with your mic and the meeting audio captured separately, entirely on your Mac.
Whisper and Parakeet dictation
Two local engines, Whisper and Parakeet v3, both running on your Mac, no cloud in the loop.
Voice typing
Hotkey, speak, and the text lands at your cursor in any app.
For writers
Talk the first draft out, export Markdown, keep your manuscript off the cloud.
No subscription
$8 once, own it forever: the whole app, no monthly toll.
Offline
Dictation that works on a plane, in a dead zone, or with Wi-Fi off.
Private
Voice to text with no account, no telemetry, and no audio leaving your Mac.
Talk to text
The everyday flow: talk naturally, get clean text back in seconds.
Transcribe files
Turn audio and video files you already have into searchable text, locally.
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One app. Every workflow.
Whatever brought you here, it's the same $8: every feature included, offline by default, yours forever.
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