Voice to Text for Writers
Draft at the speed you think: speak your sentences and watch them land in your manuscript, blog post, or email.
Download FreeFirst drafts die in the gap between thinking speed and typing speed. You compose a sentence in your head, and by the time you've typed it, the next three are gone. Dictation should fix this, but raw transcripts full of filler and false starts often cost more editing time than they save.
How Harker helps
Harker lets you draft by talking, directly into whatever you write in. Press the shortcut, speak the paragraph, and the text is pasted at your cursor: in your manuscript, your newsletter draft, your notes app, anywhere you can type. No separate dictation window, no exporting transcripts.
The free tier gives you unlimited local transcription, so a 2,000-word drafting session costs nothing and never hits a cap. Because Whisper runs on your device, your unpublished work stays exactly where it should: on your Mac. Nothing you say is uploaded.
When you want cleaner output than a raw transcript, Premium does the edit pass for you. The Concise style strips filler and tightens sentences, grammar and punctuation correction fixes structure as you go, and smart formatting turns spoken thoughts into a structured email or organized bullet points. You talk like a person; the page reads like a writer.
How it works
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Set your shortcut
Pick a global keyboard shortcut that's always within reach mid-draft.
- 2
Speak your draft
Talk through the paragraph the way you'd say it out loud. Local Whisper transcribes on your device.
- 3
Text appears
The words are pasted at your cursor, in your draft, ready to shape.
Harker changed how I design. I talk through ideas, let my thoughts wander, and then drop those transcripts into AI generators. What used to take hours of writing prompts now starts with a simple voice note. Plus, the app itself is beautiful.
Elena Capellini
Questions
Start speaking instead of typing
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