Dictation at 150+ WPM
Speak naturally and watch your words appear in real time. Yaps handles punctuation, paragraphs, and formatting so you can focus on the story.
For Writers
Dictate your next masterpiece
You think faster than you type. Yaps turns your spoken words into polished prose at over 150 words per minute - privately, locally, and without an internet connection. Just you, your voice, and the page.
Dictation
Google Docs - Draft Novel.docx
Listening…Hold Fn on Mac to dictate
Sound familiar? vs The Yaps way
Same sentence. Watch the difference.
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~3.5x faster with voice
Built for the way writers work
Every feature in Yaps was designed with creative workflows in mind.
Voice Notes for Ideas
Hit record when inspiration strikes - in the shower, on a walk, at 3 AM. Your voice notes are transcribed and searchable for later.
Hear Your Writing Read Back
Use text-to-speech with natural, human-sounding voices to hear your prose aloud. Catch rhythm issues, awkward phrasing, and typos your eyes skip over.
Studio Editor
Generate audiobook samples, narrated excerpts, or voice-over for book trailers with text-to-speech. Paste your text, pick a voice, and export as WAV with SRT subtitles - right from your device.
Smart History
Every dictation session is saved and searchable. Scroll back through weeks of sessions to find that perfect paragraph you spoke last Tuesday.
Works Offline, Always
Write in a cabin, on a plane, or at a coffee shop with spotty Wi-Fi. Yaps runs entirely on your own machine with no internet required.
Your writing workflow, spoken
Real ways writers use Yaps every day.
First Drafts
Dictate entire chapters, blog posts, or essays without touching the keyboard. Many writers find their voice sounds more natural than their typing.
“She walked through the door and everything changed - new paragraph - the room was darker than she remembered...”
Idea Capture
Record a quick voice note when a plot twist hits you mid-walk. Yaps transcribes it instantly and you can search it later by keyword.
“Voice note: the antagonist's motivation - what if she was actually trying to protect someone?”
Editing by Ear
Paste your draft and have Yaps read it aloud. You will hear problems your eyes glaze over: repeated words, clunky dialogue, sentences that run too long.
Audiobook Drafts
Use Studio to narrate sample chapters with Yaps voices. Test how your prose sounds before committing to a full audiobook production.
Screenwriting & Scripts
Dictate dialogue naturally - the way people actually talk. Yaps captures the cadence and rhythm that typed dialogue often loses.
“SARAH - open paren - frustrated - close paren - I told you this would happen. JAMES - quietly - I know.”
Journaling & Freewriting
Start a timed freewrite session and just talk. No inner editor, no backspace key, no second-guessing. Just raw, unfiltered creative output.
Hear from people like you.
“I dictated the entire first draft of my last novel with Yaps. 85,000 words in six weeks. My wrists thanked me, my editor thanked me, and honestly, the prose felt more alive than anything I have typed. There is something about speaking your story out loud that makes the characters breathe.”
Writing tips from the blog
Voice Notes While Driving: Capture Ideas Safely on a Commute
The commute is where a lot of people do their best thinking and lose all of it. Here is how to capture those ideas around driving, starting with the part most guides skip: what is actually legal and safe.
Voice Prompts for AI: Talk to ChatGPT and Claude, Not Type
The single biggest thing you can do to get better answers out of an AI is write longer, more specific prompts. The reason nobody does it is that typing them is miserable. Speaking them is not.
AI Call Notes for Support Teams, Without a Bot on the Call
After-call work is the quiet tax on every support queue: minutes of typing after every call, done worst when the queue is busiest. This guide lays out a wrap-up workflow that starts the second the call ends, runs entirely on your own device, and never puts a third party on the line with your customer. It is also blunt about what Yaps does not do, including the fact that it never joins a call.
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Requires macOS 13.0+ (Apple Silicon recommended)Also on iPhone and iPad