Yehi AI is a local AI voice keyboard for macOS. Hold a shortcut key, speak, and Yehi types into any app. Your audio and transcribed text stay on your device, never on an external server. Free for personal use.

Hi Product Hunt, Yehi AI is built for fast AI voice typing without sending private words to a cloud transcription API. Yehi is a local AI voice keyboard for Mac. Hold a shortcut, speak naturally, release, and the text appears in the app already being used. It works across documents, email, chat, notes, code editors, and other places where typing happens. What makes it different: -Audio transcription runs locally on the device -Voice and transcribed text are not sent to Yehi servers -Text is typed directly into the active app -Multiple local Whisper model tiers let users choose speed or maximum accuracy -A local grammar model can clean up grammar, spelling, and punctuation after transcription -Free for personal, non-commercial use Yehi is especially useful for writers, developers, students, founders, journalists, and anyone who wants to write faster while keeping sensitive work private. The current release is focused on macOS Apple Silicon. Windows is next, and the waitlist is open from the download page. Feedback on whether the onboarding and model choices feel simple for a first-time user would be very helpful.

the hold-to-talk shortcut feels really well thought out, especially how it drops the text right into whatever app you're already in without breaking flow. local-only processing for a voice keyboard is a nice move too

How well does it handle different accents and background noise in practice?

Yehi AI

Fully local AI voice typing in any app

Fully local AI voice typing in any app