# Keebye

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- Website: https://keebye.com/
- Categories: AI Productivity
- Tags: Productivity

Keebye is push-to-talk voice dictation for macOS. Hold a key, speak, and clean text lands in whichever app has focus — including your terminal over SSH and tmux. Speech-to-text runs entirely on-device, works offline, and covers 25 languages.

## Hold a key. Speak. It's typed.

Keebye is **push-to-talk voice dictation for macOS**, built for developers
running several AI coding agents at once. Hold Right ⌘, say the thing, release —
and the text lands in whichever app has focus: Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT,
Slack, or a terminal session over SSH inside tmux.

Tap the hotkey once instead of holding for longer dictations, press Esc to
cancel, and remap to Fn or Right ⌥ if Right ⌘ isn't your key.

### Built for the terminal

Most dictation tools fall apart the moment you leave a text box. Keebye pastes
with terminal-aware chunking, and an optional synthetic typing mode survives SSH
sessions, tmux panes and non-QWERTY layouts.

### Say it messy, it lands clean

- Fillers, false starts and doubled words are stripped by **deterministic rules**
- An optional polish pass runs a **local LLM**, also on-device
- Turn cleanup off and you get every word verbatim — no model deciding what you meant
- A **custom dictionary** teaches Keebye your product names and acronyms once

### On-device, by design

Audio never leaves your Mac. The network is used only to download models, check
for updates and confirm your plan — never to send audio, and there's no telemetry
or analytics. Once a model is downloaded, dictation works with the Wi-Fi off.

History is stored locally as text only and auto-deletes after 30 days. Keebye
also refuses to type into secure password fields.

The default engine is English-tuned and fast; switch to the multilingual Canary
engine for **25 languages** on-device. Free 14-day trial, no card required.