TolkOn the Mac,
press once and speak.
Tolk lives in your menu bar. In any app, press a shortcut to start talking and press it again to stop — the text lands right at your cursor. Translating, voice notes and understanding the messages you receive each have a shortcut too.
Requires a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later.
Tap once,
and it's typed.
In any app, tap control and shift and start talking; tap again when you're done. Tolk tidies it up and the words land right where your cursor is.
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Tap, and just talk
In your own language, the way you normally speak:
Yes, uh, they left this morning. I’ll, um, send you the tracking number tonight.
- 02
Tolk tidies it up
Filler words out, slips fixed, punctuation in.
- 03
Typed at the cursor
It appears right where you were typing — hit send.
Say it in your language,
send it in theirs.
Tap control, option and B and speak your language: the card shows the translation and, under it, the same words turned back into yours. One glance, then Insert puts it in the chat box. In a hurry, tap control and command: the translation lands straight at the cursor.
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Tap, and say it
The way you normally speak:
Sure, I’ll send it today. The shipment will be in Istanbul on Wednesday.
- 02
The card: theirs, and the check
The translation, and a line turning it back into your language.
- 03
Insert, and send
The translation is in the chat box — hit send.
A message in their language,
read in yours.
Select the text they sent, tap control, option and T, and the card shows it in your language. Nothing selected? It translates what's on the clipboard.
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Select their message
Drag across the message to select it.
- 02
Tap
Tolk reads the selected text and translates it into your language.
- 03
The card, in yours
Read and close — or copy or insert it to reply.
Six shortcuts,
one for every step.
Press once to start, again to stop. The result either lands at your cursor, or appears on a card for you to check before it goes into the chat.
- ⌃⇧
Dictate
Speak your language; the tidied text lands at your cursor.
- ⌃⌘
Speak yours, type theirs
Speak your language; what gets typed is in the other side's.
- ⌃⌥V
Voice note
Speak your language; Tolk translates it and says it in the voice you chose. Check it on the card, then drop the voice note into the chat with one click.
- ⌃⌥T
Read a message
Select a message in another language and press — the card shows it in yours. Nothing selected? It translates what is on the clipboard.
- ⌃⌥R
Understand a voice message
Press while the voice message plays on your Mac; Tolk listens and translates, and the card shows it as text in your language.
- ⌃⌥B
Back-translation check
Speak your language; the card shows the translation and its back-translation. If the back-translation is off, edit it and translate again.
These are the defaults — change any shortcut in Settings. Press Esc to cancel at any time.
Everything the iPhone app
does well.
Switch language mid-sentence
A small capsule shows when Tolk is listening and translating; tap its flag while you are still speaking to change the language it translates into.
Top-tier twin engines
Two top-tier AI engines stand ready; if one can't finish, the other takes over automatically.
12 languages
Chinese, English, Turkish, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Arabic.
20 voices
Pick the voice that reads translations aloud and speaks your voice notes — male or female, in different styles.
Ten interface languages
Menus, settings and messages in ten languages: Chinese, English, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese.
Just in the menu bar
No Dock icon, nothing in your way. Press a shortcut when you need it; settings open from the menu bar too.
Good to know
before you install.
Tolk listens to you and puts text at your cursor, so the first time you use it, it asks you to turn on a few macOS permissions.
How what you say is handled — see Privacy →Apple silicon · macOS 14
Requires a Mac with Apple silicon (M series) and macOS 14 or later. Intel Macs are not supported yet.
Microphone
To hear you speak, and to hear the voice messages you play on your Mac.
Accessibility
To put text at your cursor, and to read the text you select.
Speech recognition
Used only for some languages, when they are recognised on the Mac itself.