# Tony

> Talk to your AI agents: hold a key, speak your prompt, let go. Tony is free, open source dictation for Mac, private and offline, in 25 languages.

Every page below is plain markdown. [llms-full.txt](https://bestboy.dev/tony/llms-full.txt) holds all of them in one file.

## Docs

- [How Tony works](https://bestboy.dev/tony/docs.md): Tony is free, open source dictation for the Mac. Hold a key, speak, and let go, and your words land where the cursor is, in any app, transcribed on your Mac.
- [Install Tony and allow its permissions](https://bestboy.dev/tony/docs/install.md): Download Tony, the free dictation app for Mac, allow the microphone and Accessibility, and dictate your first sentence in about a minute.
- [Dictate prompts to your AI agents, like Claude Code and Codex](https://bestboy.dev/tony/docs/ai-agents.md): Speak your prompt instead of typing it. Tony pastes it into Claude Code, Codex, your editor’s agent, or any chat box, with your project’s names spelled right, on your Mac.
- [Settings: your key, mic, languages, and words](https://bestboy.dev/tony/docs/settings.md): Tony has four choices, where people really differ - the push-to-talk key, the microphone, the languages you speak, and your words - and a tuned default for everything else.
- [Your words, spelled your way](https://bestboy.dev/tony/docs/your-words.md): Teach Tony the names, brands, and jargon you use, so “super base” lands as Supabase. A second, on-device model checks each word against your voice before it swaps in.
- [Dictation in 25 languages, detected as you speak](https://bestboy.dev/tony/docs/languages.md): Tony dictates in 25 European languages, from English, German, and Polish to Ukrainian and Greek. It detects the language as you speak, and you can switch mid-dictation.
- [The menu bar panel and your dictation stats](https://bestboy.dev/tony/docs/menu-bar.md): Click Tony in the menu bar for your last dictation, words dictated, time saved over typing, speaking pace, streak, six months of activity, and the apps you dictate into.
- [Private, offline speech to text on your Mac](https://bestboy.dev/tony/docs/privacy.md): Tony transcribes on your Mac’s Neural Engine. Audio stays in memory and never leaves the Mac, there is no account and no telemetry, and dictation works offline.
- [Fast, accurate speech to text on the Neural Engine](https://bestboy.dev/tony/docs/speed-and-accuracy.md): Tony transcribes a sentence in about 50 ms on your Mac’s Neural Engine, with Parakeet Ultra at a 5.8% English word error rate, fewer errors than Whisper large-v3.
- [Frequently asked questions](https://bestboy.dev/tony/docs/faq.md): Answers about Tony, the free dictation app for Mac - price, privacy, offline use, languages, accuracy, the apps it types into, and what it needs to run.