LESS TYPING. MORE YOU.
The thought you want to get down.
The conversation you want to keep.
Heard turns speech into words and meetings into useful notes. Made for your Mac. Kept on your Mac.
See your words at workA private product preview · Meeting notes in beta
Already in words.
FROM “I WAS JUST THINKING…”
Two ways to make your words useful.
One less thing between you and a clear thought.
Interactive illustrations · Sample text · No audio recorded
Hold your shortcut while the thought is fresh. Release it, and Heard transcribes and inserts your words into the focused, supported text field.
A simulation, not live speech recognition.
Fn is the default for new setups. Your shortcut is configurable.
Start a meeting yourself. Capture your microphone and, for online meetings, audio playing on your Mac.
This example never accesses your microphone or computer audio.
“Let’s keep the first version to a single page.”
“I’ll send the first draft by Friday.”
“Do we need a separate introduction?”
Labels identify audio sources, not individual speakers.
Finish the example to see draft notes linked to the words behind them.
Keep the first version to one page.
Send the first draft by Friday.Owner not identified in this excerpt.
Is a separate introduction needed?
Ready to walk through the example.
A VOICE FOR YOUR EVERYDAY
For the message, the note, the prompt.
And the idea that won’t wait for your fingers.
A global keyboard or mouse shortcut. A small, movable waveform. Release to finish. Heard stays close without taking over your screen.
Clean up dictated words, shape them into an AI prompt, or rewrite selected text. On-device Apple Intelligence helps when available.
can you send me the draft friday
Can you send me the draft on Friday?
Separate work and personal instructions. Personality presets for a little character. Saved vocabulary for the words you use most.
Let’s keep this simple.
Less fuss.
More getting it done.
Ready Check walks through microphone access and signal, speech assets, Accessibility and shortcut activation. A short voice tune-up checks level and speaking pace.
Practical feedback, without retraining Apple’s speech model.
Local history keeps your latest 100 Mac dictations, with the original and edited versions ready to copy. Remove an entry or clear them all whenever you like.
Let’s try a simpler approach.
Original + edited text · Saved on this MacMEETING NOTES BETA
Good conversations have a habit of moving quickly. Keep a local record, then come back to what mattered.
Explore the meeting exampleKeep the first version to a single page.
“Let’s keep the first version to a single page.”
Send the first draft by Friday.
Owner not identified in this excerpt.Sample data · Source labels identify channels, not people.
You start the recording. Capture microphone audio in person, or microphone plus computer audio online.
Keep the evidence close. Edit draft notes, owners and deadlines while keeping the supporting quotes linked.
Take the useful bits with you. Organise meetings by project and tags, copy notes or export Markdown, and recover completed sections after an interruption.
Early meeting-transcript testing is encouraging. Longer calls, overlapping speech and device changes still need broader testing. Review generated notes for meaning and completeness.
YOUR WORDS HAVE A HOME
Speech recognition and AI writing run on-device.
No cloud transcription. No meeting bot. No external AI service.
You choose when. Meetings never start automatically. Ask everyone’s permission before recording.
You keep the record. Meeting audio and transcripts stay locally until you move them to the Trash. Temporary dictation audio is deleted after processing. Your latest 100 Mac dictations, including original and edited text, are saved locally; delete individual entries or clear the history.
Your Mac does the work. Requires macOS 26+ and supported Apple speech assets. AI writing and notes need Apple Intelligence and its available on-device model.
A FEW GOOD QUESTIONS
Heard is in development for Mac, with an early iPhone and iPad dictation build.
This is a product preview, with no public download or sign-up yet.
Heard inserts into the focused text field when the app exposes a supported editable target through macOS Accessibility. Secure fields are excluded. Some custom editors need you to copy the result instead. If focus changes, Heard keeps the transcript rather than guessing where to put it. It checks paste delivery where the editor exposes the result, with an immediate retry when insertion is rejected. Broad cross-app insertion testing is still ongoing.
Dictation is transcribed after you release the shortcut, then inserted without submitting the message. The current dictation limit is two minutes. Meeting recordings use a separate flow that processes completed audio sections as recording continues.
The current Mac build requires macOS 26 or later and supported Apple speech assets; dictation lets you choose a language or accent in Audio settings, subject to Apple’s on-device support. Meeting transcription currently uses Australian English. Dictation uses microphone and Accessibility permissions. Online meeting capture also needs Screen & System Audio Recording access. No screen images or video are saved. Apple may need to download speech or model assets during setup.
Dictation still uses local speech recognition and basic spacing cleanup. Prompt mode falls back to a simple task wrapper. Meeting transcripts are saved, and you can generate AI notes later when Apple Intelligence is enabled and its on-device model is available.
You can rename the microphone and computer-audio labels yourself. These remain audio-source labels, not automatic identification of individual speakers. Notes link to matching source quotes; inferred owners and deadlines should always be reviewed. There’s no promise of named-speaker identification or universal conferencing compatibility.
Save a local meeting entry with its date, link, project, tags and preparation notes. Open it to prepare a recording with that context. These are manually saved entries, not calendar sync, emailed invitations or automatic recording.
An early development build supports recording inside Heard, editing the result, and Copy or Share to move it into another app. It requires iOS or iPadOS 26 or later, with device-dependent speech and Apple Intelligence availability. Mac-style global shortcuts and insertion, meeting capture and cross-device settings sync are not part of this mobile build. It is not a public App Store or TestFlight release.
Completed audio sections are saved locally and can be recovered for processing. A crash can still lose the section being recorded at that moment. Long meetings, device changes and recovery during real calls remain areas for beta testing.
THE NEXT GOOD THING YOU SAY
Explore the examples. No microphone required.