Beam macOS · Coming soon

Dictation that never leaves your Mac.

Hold the fn key. Speak. Release. Clean text lands in whatever app you are typing in, transcribed entirely on your Mac's own silicon.

Live, in any app

Ship the beta to the waitlist on Friday morning.

text streams as you speak · on your silicon, not a server

No spam. One email when Beam ships.

100% on device 0.77% word error rate* 0 bytes of audio uploaded Works offline Menu bar native

* Word error rate of the NVIDIA Parakeet family model that powers Beam's Instant engine, on standard English speech recognition benchmarks.

How it works

One key. No windows, no modes.

01

fn

Hold

Press and hold the fn key from anywhere. Your text editor, your terminal, a message box.

02

Speak

Talk normally. Words stream onto the screen as you say them, not after.

03

Done. Clean text, right where your cursor was.

Release

Let go of the key. Punctuated, readable text stays behind. Nothing else does.

Privacy

Where your voice goes

Nowhere.

Beam runs its speech model on your Mac's own GPU, through Metal, on Apple Silicon. No cloud. No accounts. No audio uploads, ever. There is no server on the other end because there is no other end.

Most tools
your voice → their servers → text comes back
Beam
your voice → your GPU → text, on the spot

That is the whole difference. Most dictation tools stream your audio to servers for processing. Beam does the work on your machine, with a model from the NVIDIA Parakeet family running locally. It works with the network cable cut.

The learning loop

Teach it a word once. It stays taught.

Names, jargon, Hinglish. Correct Beam one time and it remembers, in a dictionary that lives on your Mac like everything else it knows about you.

First passAfter you teach it
pree ya venkat ramanPriya Venkataraman
swift you eyeSwiftUI
chalta hairchalta hai

The details

A small, fast, native thing.

Beam lives in the menu bar. It is a native Mac app, built for Apple Silicon, small on disk and quick to wake. It is one capsule on your screen when you speak and nothing at all when you don't.

  • Runs onApple Silicon
  • NetworkNot required
  • AccountNone
  • Audio keptOn your disk only

Last thing

Be there when Beam lands.

One email at launch. Nothing else, ever.