You became a teacher to work with students, not to spend your evenings writing feedback comments and formatting lesson plans. Yaps lets you dictate everything, create audio learning materials, and review student work by listening - all processed locally on your device.
Same sentence. Watch the difference.
Features designed for the reality of modern teaching.
Hold Fn on a Mac - Ctrl+Win on Windows, a double-tap of Ctrl on Linux - and speak your lesson plan, student feedback, or email to parents. Auto-punctuation formats everything cleanly. What took 30 minutes to type takes 5 minutes to dictate.
Select a student essay and have Yaps read it in a natural voice. Listening to papers reveals structural issues, voice inconsistencies, and argument gaps that silent reading misses.
Use Yaps Studio to turn your written materials into audio files. Paste text, choose a voice, and generate explanations, reading guides, vocabulary lessons, and study prompts that students can listen to on their own time.
Campus networks are unreliable. Yaps runs offline for core dictation and TTS. Dictate at home, at school, on the bus, or anywhere - no internet needed for speech-to-text or text-to-speech. Voice commands use cloud AI for interpretation.
Create audio versions of handouts for students with visual impairments or dyslexia. TTS lets you provide materials in formats that meet diverse learning needs without extra cost.
Record quick voice notes during class observations, student conferences, or parent meetings. Yaps transcribes them locally so you have a searchable record of every conversation.
Real workflows for teachers, professors, and curriculum developers.
Open a student paper, have Yaps read it aloud, then dictate your feedback directly into the grading rubric or comment field. Each paper gets thoughtful, detailed comments in a fraction of the time.
“Strong thesis statement, Maya. Your second body paragraph would benefit from a specific example to support the claim about climate policy. Solid conclusion.”
Speak your lesson objectives, activities, materials needed, and assessment criteria into a document. Dictation captures the flow of your thinking in a way that typing rarely matches.
“Monday: introduce persuasive essay structure. Activity: analyze two sample editorials in pairs. Assessment: exit ticket identifying thesis, evidence, and counterargument.”
Dictate thoughtful emails to parents about student progress, behavior notes, or upcoming events. Speaking naturally produces warmer, more personal communication than quick typed messages.
“Hi Mrs. Alvarez, I wanted to let you know that Sofia has been doing excellent work on her research project this week. Her presentation skills have really grown.”
Dictate course outlines, unit plans, scope and sequence documents, and assessment frameworks. Turn weeks of typing into days of speaking and editing.
Talk through your lecture notes and let Yaps transcribe them into an outline. Many professors find that spoken prep produces more engaging, conversational lecture delivery.
Dictate personalized recommendation letters for students. Speaking about a student's strengths produces warmer, more authentic prose than staring at a template on screen.
“I teach 120 students across four sections. Grading used to consume my entire weekend. Now I have Yaps read each paper to me, then I dictate my feedback. What used to take 8 minutes per paper takes about 3. That's 10 hours I get back every grading cycle. The feedback is actually better too - when I speak it, I'm more conversational and specific instead of defaulting to generic comments. My students have noticed the difference.”
For millions of people with repetitive strain injuries, typing is not just slow. It is painful. Voice input is not a productivity trick for them. It is the difference between working and not working.
You have ideas all the time. In the shower. On a walk. In the middle of a conversation. Most of them vanish because the friction of typing a note is too high. Voice notes eliminate that friction entirely, and they capture more than just words.
The average person speaks at 150 words per minute but types at just 40. That gap is not a statistic. It is an untapped productivity multiplier hiding in plain sight. Here is the complete guide to building a voice-first workflow in 2026 that actually sticks.
Dictate feedback. Create audio lessons. Review papers by listening. All on your device.
Requires macOS 13.0+ (Apple Silicon recommended)Also on iPhone and iPad