Resonant + Gmail
Empty your inbox.
One spoken reply at a time.
Gmail is where most of your workday actually happens. Every thread reply is a decision about tone, context, and what not to say. Voice lets you draft thoughtful replies in 30 seconds that would take four minutes to type.
Press a key, speak the reply the way you'd say it in person, and clean text lands in the Gmail compose window. Your audio never leaves your Mac.
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Typed vs. dictated
Same inbox.
Replies that actually land.
Reply to a tangled thread
“thanks, let me circle back tmrw”
“Thanks for pulling all of this together — I can see why the legal team pushed back on clause 4b, and I agree the original phrasing was too broad. Before I respond to them directly, I want to make sure we're aligned on the fallback. If they won't accept the revised indemnity cap, are we willing to walk, or do we soften to the number Priya suggested on Tuesday? Let me know and I'll draft the reply first thing tomorrow morning so you can sign off before it goes out.”
Cold outreach
“hey saw your post, want to chat?”
“I came across your piece on the unit economics of B2B marketplaces this morning — specifically the section on cohort payback periods — and it lined up almost exactly with something we've been wrestling with at our company. I lead growth at a Series B marketplace in the logistics space and we're about 18 months into the exact tradeoff you described. Would you be open to a 20-minute call in the next couple of weeks? Happy to share what we're seeing in exchange for a gut check on our next move.”
Explaining a delay to a client
“sorry running late on this, will send friday”
“I owe you a clear update and an apology. The deliverable we promised for today is going to slip to Friday — the root cause is that our QA pass surfaced two edge cases in the reporting module that would have broken your weekly board export, and I'd rather hold the release than ship something that embarrasses either of us. I've asked the team to prioritize those fixes and I'll send you a working build Thursday end of day so you have a full day to review before your Monday meeting.”
The insight
Gmail is the work.
Not the thing around the work.
Most knowledge workers spend two or more hours a day inside Gmail. Not checking it — working in it. Replies, forwards, escalations, introductions, apologies, confirmations. Every thread is a small decision about tone, what to include, and what to leave out.
When you type, the friction pushes you toward the shortest possible reply. “Thanks, let me circle back” becomes a habit, and the thread drags on for two more rounds because you never actually said the thing. The inbox grows because the replies are too thin to close loops.
Voice flips the economics. A warm, specific four-sentence reply takes the same time as a tepid one-liner. You say it once, clean text lands, you hit send, and the thread actually resolves.
Forty unread messages. You open one, read it, stare, type eight words, close it, open the next. An hour later you've cleared twelve threads and the good ones — the ones that needed real thought — are still sitting there.
Email stops being communication and becomes maintenance.
Forty unread messages. You open one, read it, press the hotkey, say what you actually mean, move on. Twenty minutes later the inbox is empty and every reply sounds like a human who cared about the person on the other end.
Inbox zero as a side effect of just talking.
Where it fits
Six places voice
changes how you email.
Batch-processing the inbox
Open a thread, read it, press the hotkey, speak your reply, move to the next. Forty unread messages become twenty minutes of spoken replies instead of two hours of typing. The inbox actually empties.
Long thread replies
The threads that need real thought are the ones you keep putting off. Voice lets you think out loud — reference earlier points, acknowledge pushback, propose a path forward — without the typing slowing your reasoning down.
Warm cold outreach
The best cold emails sound like a human wrote them on purpose. Speaking them in surfaces the cadence and specificity that templates strip out. Every line earns its place because you said it out loud.
Difficult conversations
Declines, delays, disagreements, corrections. These emails are hard to type because you're editing your tone with every keystroke. Saying it lets you hear the warmth before you send, and edit the clean text with fresh eyes.
Status updates to leadership
The Friday update that summarizes the week. Speaking it is faster than outlining it, and the spoken version tends to be more honest about what actually happened — the wins, the blockers, and what you need.
Quick acknowledgments with substance
“Got it, thanks” is fast but forgettable. A four-sentence acknowledgment that confirms the specifics, restates the commitment, and sets the next checkpoint takes the same time to speak — and keeps the thread clean.
Architecture
Your inbox stays yours.
Audio never leaves the Mac.
Email threads are among the most sensitive text on your computer. Client details, pricing, internal pushback, personal context, things you wouldn't want a third-party transcription service logging. Resonant runs the neural models locally on your Mac, so none of that audio is ever uploaded.
The only thing that reaches Gmail is the finished text — exactly as if you had typed it. Google sees what it always sees. There is no new middleman in your email pipeline, no new subpoena surface, no new vendor in your data flow.
For anyone handling client communication, legal matters, health information, or anything under NDA, this matters. Voice input shouldn't mean giving up the privacy you get from typing.
Free. Local. Works in Gmail and every other Mac app.
Warmer replies.
In a fraction of the time.
Speak your Gmail replies. Clean text lands in the compose window. Your audio stays on your Mac.
Requires macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon
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