A key you already own.
No app to open, no window to find. Hold fn anywhere on the Mac, speak, and release — the line lands in whatever you were already using. A tap shorter than a breath pastes nothing; double-tap fn for long-form.
Make the text right — not just transcribed.
Apple's recognizer listens live. The moment you release, Whisper re-transcribes and supersedes it, then a Gemini pass corrects, punctuates, and applies your dictionary and tone. The spoken word always wins. That's the leap from dictation to something that reads like you wrote it.
From writing to reading — then answering.
Highlight anything and have it read aloud. Or hold Right-Option and just ask — Symon answers out loud, using what's on your screen as context. Speaking became listening became a conversation.
When dictation becomes an agent.
Select text, hold Option, say the verb — it rewrites in place, with a Revert chip. Ask “what needs me?” and Symon walks your approvals by voice. The same spoken grammar now reaches the world — and anything that changes it passes through o8's governance gate first.
One element. Every state.
It all lives in a single dock that morphs — a quiet sliver at rest, a living waveform while it listens, a green underline when the text lands, a panel when it answers. Nothing to manage. It's just there when you hold the key.
One voice. The whole Mac.
Measured, not promised.
Built for the way you talk.
Whisper + Gemini polish
Your words, perfected. Apple drafts live; Whisper supersedes; Gemini punctuates, fixes, and matches your tone.
Custom dictionary
Teach it names, jargon, and acronyms once. It never fumbles them again.
Tone and rules
Lowercase for Slack, structured for docs. It writes in the right voice automatically.
Read aloud
Highlight anything and have it read back in a natural voice.
Ask your screen
Hold a key and ask out loud. Symon answers using what is on your screen.
On-device privacy
Your history stays on your Mac. Cloud help is explicit, never a default.