Hold ⌃ ⌥ and talk like you normally do. HeyVedu drops the ums, applies your corrections, and types polished text into any app, without your voice ever leaving your Mac.
Works in the apps you already use
Real speech is full of restarts and filler. HeyVedu keeps your words and your voice, and quietly fixes the rest.
Say “actually”, “no wait” or “scratch that” and only the corrected version gets typed.
Just list things as you normally would and HeyVedu formats them. Want exact control? Say “bullet point” or “new line”.
Um, uh, like, you know. Removed before the text lands.
Spoken numbers, percents and times come out the way you’d write them.
Add names and jargon to your personal dictionary. They’re typed exactly as you spell them, even when they’re misheard.
Tap the shortcut once to talk for as long as you like. Tap again to finish.
After the one-time model download, no connection is needed. Ever.
Vedu Scribe, HeyVedu’s own on-device model, or Apple Intelligence.
Most people type around 40 words a minute and speak around 150. On an M4 Pro, HeyVedu transcribes and cleans up each sentence in about half a second, so you still land near 140. Stop translating thoughts into keystrokes.
Signed, notarized and self-updating. Or build it from source.
Prefer to build it yourself? Install from source.
$ brew install --cask rajan9519/tap/heyvedu
Yes. HeyVedu is free and open source under the GNU GPLv3. There is no HeyVedu account or subscription.
Yes, after the first model downloads. Speech recognition and cleanup run entirely on your Mac.
No. Recorded audio stays in memory, is never written to disk, and is transcribed on-device.
No. HeyVedu does not store a dictation history. Debug builds log timing and errors, but not audio, transcripts, or typed keys.
Accessibility access lets HeyVedu observe your push-to-talk shortcut and paste the finished text at your current cursor. Your clipboard is restored afterwards.
When you press the shortcut, HeyVedu checks the frontmost app and, in a browser, the site’s domain, so it can pick the format and tone. That check happens on your Mac and isn’t saved or sent anywhere.
Almost anything that accepts pasted text: chat, email, notes, documents, code editors, AI chats and terminals.
HeyVedu requires an Apple-silicon Mac running macOS 14 or later. Dictation is currently English-only.
Download the disk image, open it, and drag HeyVedu to Applications. The app is signed and notarized by Apple and updates itself. You can also install it with Homebrew or build it from source with Xcode.
Email [email protected] for support, or report an issue on GitHub.