Press a key, speak your mind, release. Your words appear wherever your cursor is. No complex setup, no learning curve—just natural dictation.
Get Velocity from our website. Open the DMG, drag to Applications, and launch. The entire process takes less than a minute.
💡 Velocity lives in your menu bar, always ready but never in the way.
Create an account or sign in. Your API token connects the app to cloud transcription features. Free tier gives you 60 minutes/month.
💡 Offline mode works immediately—no account required for local AI.
Choose your preferred keyboard shortcut. The default is ⌘+Shift+D, but you can customize it to anything that feels natural.
💡 Hold the hotkey to dictate, release to insert. Simple muscle memory.
Talk like you're explaining something to a friend. Velocity handles punctuation, capitalization, and paragraph breaks automatically.
💡 Say 'new paragraph' or 'comma' for explicit formatting control.
Release the hotkey and your transcribed text is inserted at your cursor position. Works in any app that accepts text input.
💡 Real-time streaming means you see words appear as you speak.
Velocity combines the best cloud and local AI models for speed, accuracy, and privacy.
Deepgram Nova-3
State-of-the-art speech recognition with sub-300ms latency. 36+ languages, automatic punctuation, and speaker diarization.
Whisper AI
OpenAI's Whisper model running locally on your Mac. No internet required, complete privacy, works anywhere.
Velocity automatically chooses the best mode for your situation. You can also force a specific mode in settings.
Download Velocity free. You'll be dictating in under a minute.
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