A dictionary that fills itself
Names, jargon and brands that speech recognition mishears by
default end up in your own dictionary. And you don't have to put
them there yourself: correct a word after Velo pastes it and it
remembers the pair. Even if you type around it first or step away
for a moment. Next time it comes out right.
The terms travel along inside the same transcription request, so it
costs no extra millisecond. Speed is the entire point, and a
dictionary is not going to eat into that. Sign in and your
dictionary follows you to your other Mac.
heard "the DNS sits at Cloud Flare"
↓ you fix one word
learned Cloud Flare → Cloudflare
Nothing goes missing
You pasted into the wrong window. Or you typed straight over it,
and you had put it rather well. Velo keeps every dictation, so you
simply take it back: copy it, or paste it at your cursor after all.
Searching works too, including what you said last week.
Your history lives on your Mac only. No server, no account,
no sync. And you decide how long it stays, from keeping nothing to
keeping everything.
14:02
Thanks for forwarding that. I'll work through the comments and send a new version by tomorrow afternoon.
11:47
Summary of the meeting: the budget is approved, delivery moves back by a week, and communication now runs through the project team.
09:15
Note in the minutes that we decide on the new supplier next week.
Works without internet too
On a plane, on the train, or simply because you want your voice to
stay on your own machine: set Velo to "On this Mac" and
transcription runs fully on-device, on a compact build of the
same Whisper model the cloud uses. One 574 MB download, and after
that it needs nothing at all.
Local dictation is free and unlimited, no account needed.
And once the model is on your Mac, it doubles as your safety net:
if your connection drops while you're dictating through the
cloud, your Mac finishes the dictation itself instead of losing
it.
No sign-up wall
You can dictate the first time you open it. No account, no credit card, no email verification. Velo has to prove itself in ten seconds, and a form has no business standing in front of that.
Built for speed
Native Rust, no Electron shell. The microphone stream only opens while you use it and closes itself again. The local speech model is a separate download, only if you want it.