Speak anywhere.
Press Alt + Z in any app and talk. Your words appear where you’re typing. Free and open source.
Windows 10 or later · macOS 11 or later · 2.9 MB download
Built in the classroom
Many students have big ideas but find typing hard. Zpeak lets them speak instead, in every app they learn in.
How it works
- 01It waits in the trayIn the Windows taskbar or the Mac menu bar.
9:41 - 02Press Alt + Z and talkIn any text box. You can change the shortcut.AltZ
- 03Your words appearPress again and the text is typed in.Last weekend I went hiking
Choose how Zpeak listens
RecommendedZense AI
- Cost
- Free with school and paid plans
- Where your voice goes
- Zense AI servers, over HTTPS
On this computer
- Cost
- Free
- Where your voice goes
- Stays on your computer
OpenRouter
- Cost
- Your own key, pay as you go
- Where your voice goes
- OpenRouter and your chosen model
On-device models are hash-checked before use. Large v3 Turbo understands Cantonese.
Small enough for old laptops
Many students use old laptops with little free space. On-device models are optional, from 78 MB to 574 MB.
On-device Whisper needs a processor from about 2013 or later.
2.9 MB
Windows installer
- 8.4 MB
- installed on Windows
- 8.6 MB
- Mac installer
Security
- You sign in on app.zenseai.io, so Zpeak never sees your password.
- Its sign-in only covers speech to text, not your chats, classes or files.
- Sign out any computer in Zense AI → Settings → Connectors.
- Tokens and keys stay in the system keychain.
- Recordings stay in memory and are never saved.
Privacy
No analytics, telemetry or crash reports. Zpeak only connects to:
- The speech-to-text service you choose. On this computer sends nothing.
- Hugging Face, when you download a model.
- GitHub, to check for updates.
This program will not transfer any information to other networked systems unless specifically requested by the user or the person installing or operating it.
Code signing policy
Windows releases are signed with free code signing provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation. Our application is under review. Until then, builds are unsigned and still free to download.
Built by GitHub Actions from the public repository. Every release is approved by hand.
- Committers and reviewers
- @EricChuDev@lingloktin
- Approvers
- Zense AI organisation owners
- Privacy
- See Privacy above
Download Zpeak
Free for everyone. Use your Zense AI account, Whisper or OpenRouter.
MacmacOS 11 or later · Apple silicon and Intel