Slack, VS Code, Notion, Word, Chrome, Terminal — if it has a text field, Just Parley can type in it. Hold a key, speak, release. That's it.
Can you update the ticket in Jira with your findings?
Done — I just added a summary to the ticket and linked the related PR. Let me know if you need anything else.
Three steps. No per-app setup. No plugins.
Press and hold the key you choose (default: Right Option). Works globally, no matter which app is in focus.
Talk at normal speed. Just Parley listens locally using a built-in speech model.
Your words are pasted into the active text field — Slack, Word, VS Code, or anything else.
Features
Most dictation tools break in half your apps. Just Parley works in all of them.
No app to open. No window to find. Just Parley lives quietly in your menu bar, always one hotkey away. It stays out of your way until you need it.
Sits in your menu bar
Your voice never leaves your Mac. No cloud processing, no accounts, no data collection. The speech model runs entirely on your machine.
Completely offline
Data sent to the cloud
English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Cantonese. Pick one or let the app detect the language automatically as you speak.
Just Parley pastes via the clipboard, so it bypasses input method restrictions that break Apple Dictation in Electron apps, code editors, and browser-based tools.
Electron apps like Slack, Discord, VS Code, and Notion break Apple's built-in dictation. Just Parley works in every one of them.
Transcription starts the moment you stop speaking. No spinner, no waiting.
English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Cantonese — all processed locally.
Your voice never leaves your Mac. No cloud, no accounts, no data collection.
Apple's built-in dictation uses the macOS input method system, which many third-party apps — especially Electron-based ones like Slack, Discord, VS Code, and Notion — don't fully support. The result: dictation either silently fails, inserts garbled text, or doesn't activate at all. Just Parley sidesteps this entirely by using the clipboard. It transcribes your speech, copies the text, and pastes it with Cmd+V — a method that works in literally every app on your Mac.
Click any app below to see how dictation works in it.