Hablá

Press a hotkey, speak, and the text appears where your cursor is. Everything runs on your machine — nothing is uploaded.

Windows 10 / 11

Download HablaSetup.exe

About 15 MB. No admin rights needed; installs for your user only.

What the installer does

Asks whether this PC has an NVIDIA GPU (it pre-selects the right answer).
Installs the speech engine: about 3 GB for the GPU build, 0.3 GB for CPU.
Downloads the speech model: Qwen3-ASR 1.7B (4.4 GB) for GPU, 0.6B (1.3 GB) for CPU.
Adds Hablá to the Start Menu and, if you tick it, to startup.

Windows SmartScreen may warn about an unsigned app — choose “More info → Run anyway”.

Requirements

64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a microphone.
CPU build: 8 GB RAM. Transcribes when you stop speaking.
GPU build: any NVIDIA RTX card with 6 GB or more. Shows the transcript live while you speak.

macOS (Apple Silicon)

Install with Homebrew:

brew install --cask ikbrrrr/habla/habla

Then open Hablá from Applications. Update later with:

brew upgrade --cask habla

First launch

macOS asks for Microphone, Accessibility and Automation permissions — the app’s Setup panel walks you through them.
The speech model (Qwen3-ASR, about 2 GB) downloads on first use.

Requirements

Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer), macOS 14 or newer.

How it works

Ctrl+Shift+Spacestart recording — speak — press again to stop; the text is pasted at your cursor Ctrl+Alt+Spacepaste the last transcription again

Languages: English, Russian, Spanish and more, with auto-detection.
The transcript always stays in your clipboard too, so you can paste it anywhere.
Optional: clean-up with a local language model (punctuation, lists, filler words).