MenuraOn-device transcriptionPrivate
Speech recognition runs locally with the Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 model on your Mac's Neural Engine. No cloud speech service, no account, no per-minute fees — and it keeps working offline.
Voice to text · for macOS
Speak.
Speak.
It's already written.
Menura turns your voice into text right on your Mac. Hold a hotkey and talk into any app, record any call without a bot joining, and transcribe audio and video files. Transcription never leaves your computer.
Why Menura
Everything you say, captured — nothing sent away.
One menu-bar app for dictation, meetings and files, built natively for the Mac.
Dictate into any app
Hold a hotkey, speak, release — the text lands at your cursor in Mail, Slack, Notes, your editor or a browser.
Meetings without a bot
Records your mic and the call's audio from Zoom, Meet, Teams, Discord or FaceTime — no bot joins. Get a transcript split by speaker, plus summary, decisions and action items.
Transcribe files
Drop in MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4 or MOV. Menura keeps a tidy library with the media, a poster frame and the text side by side.
AI cleanup, no API keys
Polish transcripts and write meeting notes with the AI tools you already pay for — Claude, Codex or Antigravity command-line apps. Optional, and off until you choose it.
25 languages
English, Russian, Ukrainian, German, French, Spanish and more European languages, detected automatically. The interface speaks English and Russian.
Updates itself, safely
New versions install quietly when you are not recording. Every update is cryptographically signed and verified before it is unpacked.
How it works
Three moves. No setup rituals.
Hold the hotkey
Press ⌥ / — or your own shortcut — wherever your cursor is. A small pill shows Menura is listening.
Just talk
Speak naturally in your language. Recognition happens on your Mac in real time, even without internet.
Release
The text is pasted at the cursor. Every dictation is kept in your history, ready to copy again.
Privacy
Your voice stays on your Mac.
Menura was designed local-first. You decide if anything ever leaves your computer.
- Audio and recognition are local. Recordings and transcripts are files in your Documents folder.
- No sign-up, no analytics, no tracking — in the app or on this page.
- Crash reports are optional and off unless you agree. They carry the app version and the technical error — never recordings, transcripts, meeting names or file paths.
- AI features are opt-in and run through the provider you pick, under your own account.
- Signed by the developer. The app carries an Apple Developer ID signature; updates are also signed with Menura's own key.
Releases
What's new
The same notes Menura shows when it updates itself.
Release notes load from the update feed. If they don't appear, open the feed.
Install
Up and running in a minute.
First install
- Download the latest Menura and open the disk image.
- Drag Menura into Applications.
- Open it. Menura is signed with an Apple Developer ID but not yet notarized, so the first time macOS may stop it: open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
- Grant Microphone access, and Accessibility so Menura can paste for you. Screen Recording is only needed for meetings.
After that, Menura keeps itself up to date — or use Check for Updates… in its menu.
Requirements
- System
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later
- Chip
- Apple silicon (fastest, on the Neural Engine) or Intel
- Model
- Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, downloaded once on first launch
- Version
- See the release notes above
Named after the lyrebird —
the bird that repeats what it hears.
Give your hands a break. Let Menura write it down.