01 / LISTEN
Hear your words
Select an article, a draft, or an email. Press your shortcut to hear it aloud, with a floating player to stop playback.
Read selection⌘⇧S
LISTEN. DICTATE. GET A LITTLE HELP.
Your words.
More possibilities.
Listen to selected text, turn speech into writing, or ask Assistant to write, edit, and read aloud. All from a shortcut on your Mac.
Listen to Kindle ebooks01 / 03ONE MAC APP, THREE WAYS TO WORK
LISTEN ✳ DICTATE ✳ ASSISTANT ✳ LISTEN ✳ DICTATE ✳ ASSISTANT ✳
THREE WAYS TO WORK
Read less. Say more.
Keep your flow.
TextHalo lives in your menu bar. Choose your shortcuts and work in the app you already have open.
02 / DICTATE
Speak instead of typing
Hold your dictation shortcut, speak, then release. Insert your words into the current app or copy them to the clipboard.
“Here’s what I have in mind.”
03 / ASSISTANT
Ask for a little help
Hold your Assistant shortcut to ask for writing, an edit, or something read aloud. Use selected text and available window context.
“Make this paragraph clearer.”
Listen starts with ⌘⇧S. Set up your own Dictate and Assistant shortcuts in the app.
KINDLE EBOOKS
Your books, read aloud.
Connect Kindle for the web with the TextHalo Reader Chrome extension. Start at your open page or prepare a complete audiobook with local Kokoro narration.
01
Start where you are
Choose Listen from this page in the extension to begin at the page you have open.
02
Listen while chapters are prepared
Completed chapters appear as they finish. Play them and jump between chapters in TextHalo while the rest of the book is prepared.
03
Keep listening on your Mac
Your transcript, audio, and listening position stay on your Mac. Once the transcript is captured, prepare more chapters without the reader connection and play saved audio offline.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Chapter I · Down the Rabbit-Hole
Public-domain excerpt · Fish Audio narrationBrowser extension
Get TextHalo Reader TextHalo Reader
Connect a Kindle for the web page to TextHalo on your Mac.
Supports Kindle for the web on read.amazon.com and read.amazon.ca. Chapter recognition depends on the book’s layout and text capture.
A VOICE THAT FITS THE MOMENT
Four ways to
hear it.
Start with Apple voices, download a local AI engine, or sign in for Fish Audio hosted voices. Preview a voice before you choose it.
01
Apple voices
Ready when you are. Uses voices installed on your Mac.
02
Kokoro
Lightweight, natural-sounding speech that runs locally.
03
Chatterbox
Expressive multilingual speech with your own reference voice.
04
Fish Audio
Stream hosted voices and create saved voice clones with eligible access.
↳ Kokoro and Chatterbox need model downloads. Fish Audio needs sign-in, credits, and your hosted-text acknowledgement.
ON YOUR MAC
LOCAL SPEECH
LOCAL OR HOSTED
YOUR WORDS, YOUR CHOICE
Privacy by
where it happens.
Local voices and dictation process on your Mac. On-device Assistant uses Apple Intelligence when available. Cloud Assistant sends your request and text context to TextHalo and its model provider; Fish Audio separately receives the words you ask it to speak.
✓Choose where processing happensUse local speech and dictation, or enable hosted services with their privacy notices.
✓Optional features stay optionalCloud Assistant requires consent. Assistant screenshots and microphone audio are not uploaded for cloud generation.
READY WHEN YOU ARE
Listen. Dictate.
Get a little help.
Free local features. Optional paid Cloud Assistant and hosted voices.
Get TextHalo for macOS Current version 0.1.25 · Requires Apple SiliconUpdating from an earlier release? Install 0.1.18 manually once to enable future automatic updates.