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Features

Everything it does, and how each part works.

Ten things, one price, all of them on your own machine. Each one has a page explaining the mechanics rather than the benefit.

  1. your shortcut
    Listening… 0:04

    Hold it to talk, tap it to toggle, Escape cancels. Pick the key in Settings.

    Dictation into any app

    Hold your shortcut and talk. The words land where the cursor already was, in any Mac app, in about a fifth of a second, punctuated.

    How it works
  2. From the end of your sentence to text in the app

    0.19seconds

    Median over 30 recordings, measured in the app. No server, so the number is the same with the Wi-Fi off.

    About a fifth of a second

    Composed on your own Mac, so there is no round trip and no floor set by the network. The same speed with the router unplugged.

    How it works
  3. What you say

    Um, I think we, I think we can move the release to Thursday because the the migration finished last night, uh, without a single error.

    What lands in your app

    I think we can move the release to Thursday because the migration finished last night, without a single error.

    Clean speech

    Filler words dropped, repeats collapsed, false starts trimmed, before the text lands. Every word that stays is one you said. Each rule is a switch.

    How it works
  4. In your note

    Ship the Q3 roadmap before Friday.

    Teach Zumbo this word
    Replace here Replace everywhere and teach

    Teach a word once

    Select what came out wrong, type what you meant, and it is heard your way from then on. The correction stays on the Mac.

    How it works
  5. Devtools 173 terms Marketing 329 terms Medical 89 terms Legal 87 terms Design 95 terms Finance 106 terms + 15 more

    21 vocabulary packs

    Developer tools, legal, medical, design, marketing and more, switched on by what you say you dictate most during setup.

    How it works
  6. acme-terms.csv 
    word,how you say it
Kubernetes,kube,k eights
Acme Cloud,acme cloud
Argo CD
    Your packs

    Added "Acme team" with 4 terms.

    Acme team4 terms, from acme-terms.csv
    Payments42 terms, from payments.json

    Your own packs

    Import a CSV or JSON file with your team's product names, internal terms and acronyms, name it, switch it on. Edit the file and the pack updates by itself.

    How it works
  7. Note Call Dana

    Call Dana about the follow-up appointment tomorrow at ten.

    Reminder set, Tue 10:00
    Reminder: Call Dana about the follow-up appointment. Snooze 10 min Done

    Notes and reminders

    Press New note and talk. It stays inside Zumbo, searchable. Say a time and it becomes a reminder.

    How it works
  8. 12:04

    10:32Speaker 1We are holding the release until the migration lands.

    10:33Speaker 2Then the changelog goes out Thursday, not Tuesday.

    10:33Speaker 1Agreed. I will move the announcement.

    Meeting mode

    Transcribes the room through the microphone while it happens, a timestamp for each paragraph, nothing uploaded.

    How it works
  9. 12:04

    10:32Speaker 1We are holding the release until the migration lands.

    10:33Speaker 2Then the changelog goes out Thursday, not Tuesday.

    10:33Speaker 1Agreed. I will move the announcement.

    Speaker labels

    Each speaker separated and labelled on the Mac, using an optional add on of about 220 MB downloaded once.

    How it works
    • Speech engine inside the app
    • 570 MB, downloaded once
    • Works with the Wi-Fi off
    • No account, no API key
    • Unplug the internet and it works exactly the same.

    Nothing leaves the Mac

    No server for your voice, no account, no API key. A licence key on activation and a version number once a day, and that is all.

    How it works
Questions
Do I need to set any of this up?

Setup asks two things: which key you want as your shortcut, and what you dictate most so it can switch on the matching vocabulary packs. Both are changeable later in Settings.

Which features need an internet connection?

None of them. The speech engine ships inside the app. The only network calls are your licence key on activation and a version number once a day.

Is anything an extra purchase?

No. Everything here is in the one price. Speaker labelling needs an extra model of about 220 MB, which is a free download, not a paid add on.

What does it need to run?

macOS 14 or later on Apple silicon, because the engine runs on the Neural Engine. The download is about 570 MB.

Download for macOS See pricing

Free for 3 days, everything unlocked. Then $15 once. macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon.