Speechy
Local text-to-speech, one keystroke away.
Needs Ollama with the phonon model: ollama pull phonon. Unsigned build: right-click → Open on first launch.
Phonon is local text-to-speech for macOS, one keystroke away. A small native menu-bar app with no Dock icon that sends text to a local Ollama speech model and plays the audio back.
The app bundle is a few megabytes; the ~112 MB phonon model lives in Ollama, not in the app. Thirty-eight voices come with the model, from default to Captain Silas Blackwater.
Press ⌃⌥S anywhere to speak the clipboard, or open the panel to type something. The shortcut, voice, endpoint, and launch-at-login all live in Settings.
What it does
⌃⌥S speaks
Speak the current clipboard contents from anywhere.
38 voices
Thirty-eight voices ship with the model, remembered per choice.
Local and fast
Chunked synthesis with stop and queue-drop. Never waits on the cloud.
Set up once
Hotkey, voice, endpoint, and launch-at-login in one Settings window.
Details
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Runs on
- macOS 13 or later
Apple silicon
Ollama 0.40.9+ with the phonon model - Download
- Speechy-1.0.0.zip · 159 KB