SayIt — Private, local text-to-speech for Mac

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SayIt

Private, local text-to-speech

Your Mac, out loud.

SayIt turns selected text into natural speech with open models running entirely on Apple silicon. No cloud, no accounts, no analytics — your words never leave the machine.

Download for macOS View on GitHub

macOS 15+ · Apple silicon · Free & open source

A first look

Press a hotkey. It reads.

The player floats in your menu bar — follow the spoken word, scrub the waveform, change the speed. Models download once from Hugging Face and speak offline from then on.