Patient data deserves a clear processing path. Yaps keeps core desktop speech recognition and cleanup on your device, with connected services documented separately. Dictate clinical notes between appointments and review records by listening; your organisation should still assess the complete deployment.
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Designed around how healthcare professionals actually work.
Hold Fn on a Mac - Ctrl+Win on Windows, a double-tap of Ctrl on Linux - after each patient encounter and speak your note. Auto-punctuation handles the formatting. Paste the result into your EHR, email, or documentation system. A two-minute dictation replaces ten minutes of typing.
No audio is uploaded. No transcripts are stored remotely. No third-party service ever touches patient information. The entire speech recognition pipeline runs locally on your own hardware.
Select patient notes, lab results, or referral letters and have Yaps read them aloud in a natural voice. Review charts by listening while you prepare for your next appointment.
Many clinical environments restrict internet access for security. Yaps runs completely offline - no Wi-Fi, no cellular data, no VPN required for any core feature.
The local speech model handles medical terminology, drug names, anatomical terms, and clinical abbreviations. Speak naturally using the language you use with colleagues.
Every dictation is timestamped and saved locally with the context of which app you were using. Find the note you dictated after your 2pm patient or the referral letter from last Thursday.
From the exam room to the research lab.
Step out of the exam room, hold the dictation key, and dictate your clinical note while the encounter is fresh. Paste into the EHR. Move to your next patient. Documentation done in real time.
“Patient presents with persistent lower back pain, worse with prolonged sitting. No radicular symptoms. Physical exam unremarkable. Plan: PT referral, follow up in 6 weeks.”
Dictate discharge instructions and summaries rapidly at the end of a shift. Speak the diagnosis, treatment plan, medication changes, and follow-up schedule in one pass.
“Discharge diagnosis: community-acquired pneumonia. Completed 5-day course of azithromycin. Follow up with PCP in one week. Return if symptoms worsen.”
After a therapy session, dictate clinical impressions and treatment observations with local speech processing, keeping that content out of a cloud AI transcription path.
“Client demonstrated improved distress tolerance using DBT skills discussed in session. Homework: practice TIPP technique daily. Next session Thursday.”
Dictate lab observations, experiment notes, and research findings as they happen. Voice notes capture the nuance that gets lost when you type abbreviated notes hours later.
Dictate referral letters and correspondence to other providers. Speak the patient history, current findings, and reason for referral in a natural narrative format.
Dictate follow-up messages, care instructions, and patient education materials. Yaps formats the text professionally, ready to send through your secure messaging system.
“I see 25 patients a day. Before Yaps, I would go home and spend two hours finishing my notes. Now I dictate each note in the minute between appointments. Capturing observations while they are fresh improves the quality, and the local content-processing path gave our team something concrete to assess.”
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Dictate clinical notes on your own machine. Patient data never leaves it.
Requires macOS 13.0+ (Apple Silicon recommended)Also on iPhone and iPad