Keebye

Keebye is push-to-talk voice dictation for Mac and Windows designed for developers and builders working with multiple AI agents in parallel. Hold a hotkey to dictate and release to insert text into whichever application has focus—including terminals, IDEs, and chat applications. All speech-to-text processing runs locally on your device; audio never leaves your computer.

The app supports multiple speech engines: an English-tuned default engine, a multilingual Canary engine covering 25 European languages, and on Mac, Apple's native engine in your system language. It includes terminal-aware insertion that works over SSH and tmux, a custom dictionary to teach the app your product names and acronyms, rule-based transcript cleanup with optional on-device LLM polish, and local text-only history that auto-deletes after 30 days.

Keebye includes features designed for terminal users and developers: synthetic typing for non-QWERTY layouts, password-field refusal on Mac, and transcription that works offline once a speech model is downloaded. The app offers a 14-day free trial with the full feature set, then requires a paid plan to continue using dictation.