Kaikou for macOS — Meeting Notes · Select & Rewrite · Live Preview

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Voice input · Live preview

Everyday typing

Double-tap Command and speak: the HUD shows recognized text in real time with auto-scrolling. When you finish, four candidate rows are one keystroke away from landing at your cursor.

A 15-second feature walkthrough. Plays automatically as you scroll into view.

Kaikou — Demo 1

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Meeting notes · Drafts write themselves

Meetings

Start meeting mode and your speech turns into a paragraphed transcript as you talk. When it ends, AI organizes everything: full minutes, a condensed version, and an action list — one meeting, all deliverables.

Transcription runs locally and offline; recordings are not saved by default — your meeting record stays on your computer.

Kaikou — Demo 2

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Select & rewrite · Fix it in place

Reworking drafts

Select any text and right-click for rewrite, translate, and paraphrase menus — multiple versions side by side. Fix a sentence or rework a passage without typing it again.

AI actions are customizable: turn your frequent rewrites into your own menu items, one click away.

Kaikou — Demo 3

The Interface

10 scenarios, explained in one scroll

Real screenshots, the same ones as on our App Store page, laid out by scenario — from triggering dictation to meetings, rewriting, and privacy. Everything you see works on your Mac today.

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Four triggers · Model management

First step

Double-tap Command, hold Right Option, double-tap Right Command, or hold Fn — four ways to start, one will feel right. Double-tap Command works out of the box: speak, release, and the text appears.

Models download on demand: grab the offline recognition model once, then stay fully offline. Switch engines anytime in Settings.

Kaikou — Scene 1

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Voice input · Live preview

Everyday typing

In any text field — WeChat, Mail, Notes, Feishu, DingTalk — double-tap Command and speak. The HUD shows recognized text live with auto-scrolling, so you can confirm as you go and never wonder if you were heard.

Preview before inserting: text lands only when you confirm, so your flow — and your document — stay undisturbed.

Kaikou — Scene 2

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4-row AI candidates — one sentence, four versions

Level up your wording

Finish a sentence and Kaikou offers four versions at once: original, AI-polished, terminology, and Prompt. Pick with the arrow keys, confirm with Enter — the right expression, first try.

The terminology row suits professional documents; the Prompt row plugs straight into AI image or coding tools — speak casually, get professional output.

Kaikou — Scene 3

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AI rewrite strength · Three levels

You set the depth

How far should polishing go? Light fixes typos and punctuation, Medium smooths sentence structure, Strong rewrites fully into formal prose.

Keep it Light for verbatim meeting notes, go Medium or Strong for formal writing — the same sentence, dressed for the occasion.

Kaikou — Scene 4

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Select & rewrite · Fix it in place

Reworking drafts

Select any text and right-click for rewrite, translate, and paraphrase menus — no retyping needed. Yesterday's report to your boss, your last reply: select and fix.

AI actions are customizable: "rewrite in Cantonese", "turn into a weekly report" — save your frequent rewrites as menu items.

Kaikou — Scene 5

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Dialect correction · Accented speech, standard text

Accent-friendly

Cantonese, Jiaoliao, Northeastern and other accents are automatically corrected into standard wording. Speak your dialect; get clean, standard text out.

Local dictionaries can be calibrated: teach it your place names and personal names, and it gets sharper with use.

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Meeting notes · Just talk

Meetings

Start meeting mode: transcription runs locally and offline, paragraphing as you speak. When the meeting ends, the complete record is already on your Mac.

AI minutes in three forms — full, condensed, action list — switchable in one click, ready to share as needed.

Kaikou — Scene 7

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Post-meeting refinement · Whisper re-transcribes the whole session

After the meeting

The live draft is produced fast with SenseVoice; after the meeting, Whisper re-transcribes the entire recording offline in the background for a more complete and fluent refined transcript.

The live draft stays untouched — the refined version is stored separately. No overwriting, no interruption, and failures stay silent.

Kaikou — Scene 8

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Task ledger · Every assignment lands on the books

Follow-up

Tasks mentioned in the meeting are extracted into a ledger: owner and deadline at a glance. Overdue, today, and tomorrow are grouped separately — follow-up across meetings, nothing dropped.

To-dos are recognized straight from the transcript: before the next meeting, unfinished items surface on their own.

Kaikou — Scene 9

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Privacy promise · Your voice stays yours alone

Privacy

Recognition runs entirely offline on your Mac; audio is never uploaded. Meeting recordings are not saved by default — kept only if you explicitly choose to.

Core features work without an account. For stronger AI, connect your own model service — your data stays under your control.

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Headline feature in v1.1.0

Meetings: from "taking notes" to "just talking"

A complete on-device meeting pipeline — capture, segmentation, minutes, and to-dos.

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Live paragraphed transcription

Transcribes as the meeting happens, paragraph by paragraph. Edit, merge, and annotate within segments without breaking the flow.

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AI minutes, three forms

Full, condensed, and action-list versions. If AI is unavailable, a rule-based engine takes over — your minutes always come out.

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Meeting history

Filter by date, duration, and to-dos; full-text search revisits any meeting. Saved recordings can be replayed.

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Auto-extracted to-dos

Tasks mentioned in the meeting land in the ledger — owner and deadline at a glance.

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Post-meeting refinement

Whisper re-transcribes the whole recording in the background — live draft untouched, refined draft more complete and fluent.

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Stays on your Mac

Transcription is offline; recordings are not saved by default — kept only if you explicitly choose to, and only on your Mac.

Core Features

Everything from dictation to finished drafts

The full v1.1.0 feature set — each one ready to use on your Mac today.

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4 hotkey triggers

Double-tap Command / hold Right Option / Right Command / Fn — pick your favorite. All free.

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Live transcription preview New

The HUD shows recognized text as you speak with auto-scrolling; confirm before it lands.

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Offline recognition

An on-device engine that works without the internet; the model downloads once, then it's fully offline.

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4-row AI candidates

Original / polished / terminology / Prompt, one keystroke to pick; rewrite strength in three levels.

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Select & rewrite New

Right-click any selection for rewrite, translate, paraphrase and custom AI actions — no retyping.

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Meeting notes New

Live paragraphing / in-segment annotations / AI minutes in 3 forms / task ledger / history search and replay.

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Dialect correction

Accented speech becomes standard wording automatically; regional dictionaries (like Rizhao) can be calibrated.

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30+ languages · 17 translation targets

Mixed recognition of Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, and Cantonese; speak Chinese, get English — technical terms handled well.

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BYOK · Bring your own model

Want to use your own AI service? Say what you need, paste your key, and parameters adapt automatically.

On your Mac, speaking is writing

Voice input · Live preview

Meeting notes · Drafts write themselves

Select & rewrite · Fix it in place

10 scenarios, explained in one scroll

Four triggers · Model management

Voice input · Live preview

4-row AI candidates — one sentence, four versions

AI rewrite strength · Three levels

Select & rewrite · Fix it in place

Dialect correction · Accented speech, standard text

Meeting notes · Just talk

Post-meeting refinement · Whisper re-transcribes the whole session

Task ledger · Every assignment lands on the books

Privacy promise · Your voice stays yours alone

Meetings: from "taking notes" to "just talking"

Live paragraphed transcription

AI minutes, three forms

Meeting history

Auto-extracted to-dos

Post-meeting refinement

Stays on your Mac

Everything from dictation to finished drafts

4 hotkey triggers

Live transcription preview New

Offline recognition

4-row AI candidates

Select & rewrite New

Meeting notes New

Dialect correction

30+ languages · 17 translation targets

BYOK · Bring your own model

Start talking to your Mac

Mac v1.1.0