# Resonant — Full Reference

> Private voice dictation for Mac. Your words, your device, your data.

Resonant is a voice suite for macOS: system-wide dictation and bot-free meeting transcription, powered by local AI models running on the Apple Neural Engine. Core speech recognition happens 100% on-device — no audio upload, no cloud transcription, no data collection.

## What Resonant Does

- **Dictation everywhere**: Press a hotkey and speak into any app — email, docs, chat, code editors, AI tools. Text is typed where your cursor is. Roughly 5× faster than typing.
- **Meeting transcription without bots**: Resonant transcribes your Mac's audio directly (system audio + microphone), so it works on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex, Slack huddles, and any other platform — no bot joins your call.
- **Automatic cleanup**: Filler words and false starts are removed; punctuation and casing are fixed.
- **Voice memos**: Capture and replay voice notes; Pro can distill them into action items.
- **Dispatch**: Background voice commands — speak instructions like "Code, refactor this" to route tasks to other apps.
- **MCP integration**: Query your local meeting transcripts and dictation history from MCP-compatible AI tools (Claude, Cursor, etc.).
- **Smart Links**: Spoken trigger phrases automatically become links.
- **Personal dictionary**: Teach Resonant names and jargon; it learns from your corrections.
- **Selection transform (Pro)**: Highlight text and speak an instruction to rewrite it.

## Privacy Model

- Core speech-to-text runs entirely on-device using local neural models (Parakeet and other local STT models).
- Works fully offline. No account or email is required to use free local dictation.
- Resonant does not collect voice recordings, transcripts, screen context, or content telemetry.
- Optional Pro features (cleanup, rewrites, summaries) use cloud AI only for the text you explicitly process, never raw audio.
- Details: https://www.onresonant.com/resources/privacy-and-data and https://www.onresonant.com/privacy

## Platforms & Requirements

- macOS 14+ on Apple Silicon (M1 or later). Details: https://www.onresonant.com/supported-devices
- Windows version in progress: https://www.onresonant.com/windows
- Download: https://www.onresonant.com/download (also available via Homebrew)

## Open Source

Resonant Community Edition is an MIT-licensed source release of the local macOS
client. Developers can use it, modify it, redistribute forks, and contribute
changes while preserving the license notice. Dependencies and downloaded model
weights retain their own licenses.

- Overview: https://www.onresonant.com/open-source
- Repository: https://github.com/tohmsc/resonant-community
- Contribution guide: https://github.com/tohmsc/resonant-community/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

## Pricing

Full details: https://www.onresonant.com/pricing

- **Free**: Unlimited local dictation, 100% on-device processing, offline use, voice memos, multiple local models and languages, personal dictionary, Smart Links, filler-word removal. No account required.
- **Pro** ($11/month or $8/month billed yearly, USD): Everything in Free plus cloud cleanup, selection transform, journal summaries, memo distillation, adaptive tone per app, style learning. 7-day trial, $0 today, cancel anytime. Billing via Polar (merchant of record).
- **Enterprise** (custom): Volume seat pricing, centralized billing and admin, priority support, custom onboarding, self-hosted inference endpoint option. Contact: https://www.onresonant.com/contact

## Languages

Resonant supports dictation in many languages via multiple local models, including English (US/UK/AU), Spanish, French, German, Mandarin, Russian, and more: https://www.onresonant.com/languages

## Key Pages

- Home: https://www.onresonant.com/
- Features: https://www.onresonant.com/features
- Download: https://www.onresonant.com/download
- Pricing: https://www.onresonant.com/pricing
- Open source: https://www.onresonant.com/open-source
- Use cases: https://www.onresonant.com/use-cases
- Integrations: https://www.onresonant.com/integrations
- Dispatch: https://www.onresonant.com/dispatch
- Getting started: https://www.onresonant.com/getting-started
- Changelog: https://www.onresonant.com/changelog
- Blog: https://www.onresonant.com/blog
- Resources (guides & comparisons): https://www.onresonant.com/resources
- Docs: https://www.onresonant.com/docs
- Support: https://www.onresonant.com/support · team@onresonant.com

## Frequently Asked Questions

**Is Resonant private?**
Yes. Core speech recognition runs 100% on-device on your Mac's Neural Engine. Your audio is never uploaded, and Resonant collects no voice recordings, transcripts, or content telemetry.

**Does Resonant work offline?**
Yes. Local dictation works fully offline with no account required.

**How much does Resonant cost?**
Local dictation is free forever. Pro adds AI cleanup, rewrites, and summaries for $11/month (or $8/month billed yearly) with a 7-day $0 trial.

**What Macs does Resonant support?**
macOS 14 or later on Apple Silicon (M1 and newer).

**How does meeting transcription work without a bot?**
Resonant captures your Mac's system audio and microphone locally, so it transcribes any call — Zoom, Teams, Meet, Webex — without a bot joining the meeting.

**Which apps does dictation work in?**
Every app: ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Notion, Word, Google Docs, VS Code, Jira, Figma, and anywhere else you can place a cursor.

## Company

Resonant is built by Specialty Tokens (https://specialtytokens.com). Twitter/X: https://x.com/onresonant