Mac, out loud – text to speech with open models. No cloud, no analytics

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

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

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macOS 15+ · Apple silicon · Free & open source · v1.0.0 · see it in action

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.

01The menu-bar player — waveform, seek, speed, history.

02The model library — open models, one download away.

Free, open source, and yours.

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Mac, out loud – text to speech with open models. No cloud, no analytics

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