QUILLMIC — PRESS BOILERPLATE
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ONE-LINE
QuillMic is a menu-bar dictation app for macOS — press a hotkey, speak,
and your words appear in any focused app, on-device by default.

SHORT (≤ 50 words)
QuillMic is a privacy-first dictation app for macOS that lives in the
menu bar. One global hotkey turns the microphone on; your words land
clean in whatever app you were already using. Speech recognition runs
on-device by default; cloud is opt-in and bring-your-own-key.

MEDIUM (≤ 120 words)
QuillMic is a menu-bar dictation app for macOS, designed around a
single hotkey rather than a window. Press the chord, speak, and the
transcript lands in whatever app held keyboard focus. The bundled
Whisper engine ships in the installation, so the first dictation
works offline with no setup. A second hotkey opens Nika, an in-app
voice assistant who can draft email replies, reshape paragraphs, or
forward a request to an external LLM and speak the answer back.
Audio is held in volatile memory only and never persisted; cloud
features are off by default and require a user-supplied API key.
QuillMic runs on Apple silicon Macs, macOS 13 or later, and is
distributed through the Mac App Store.

LONG (≤ 300 words)
QuillMic is a privacy-first dictation app for macOS, built around a
single conviction: the moment you press a hotkey to speak should
not also require switching windows, signing into an account, or
sending audio anywhere your computer cannot reach. It lives in the
menu bar with no Dock icon. One global chord starts dictation into
whatever app you were already using; a second opens Nika, an
in-app voice assistant who can draft email replies, reshape
awkward paragraphs, or hand a request off to an external model
and speak the answer back. The bundled Whisper engine ships in the
installation, so the very first dictation works offline. Higher-
quality models — including FluidAudio Parakeet, larger WhisperKit
variants, and OpenAI's gpt-4o-transcribe — are one switch away,
along with a curated FluidAudio neural voice library for spoken
replies. Cloud features are off by default and use the user's own
API key; QuillMic does not operate any servers that touch
content, holds no transcript history, and does not phone home with
telemetry. Accent quality has been a deliberate engineering focus,
with model selection, per-locale polish, and learnable custom
vocabulary all aimed at users whose names and idioms typically
get mangled by lighter dictation tools. QuillMic runs on Apple
silicon Macs, macOS 13 or later, and is distributed through the
Mac App Store.

FACT SHEET
- Platform: macOS 13 Ventura or later, Apple silicon native
- Distribution: Mac App Store (signed & notarized)
- Pricing: free during beta; cloud features bring-your-own-key
- Local engines: Whisper (bundled base.en + downloadable variants),
  FluidAudio Parakeet, GGML Metal Whisper
- Cloud engines (optional, BYO key): OpenAI Whisper-1,
  gpt-4o-transcribe, OpenRouter Whisper
- TTS: macOS system voices, FluidAudio neural voice library
  (16 curated voices: 9 female, 7 male)
- Languages: model-dependent, up to ~100 with cloud Whisper
- Sandbox: macOS App Sandbox + hardened runtime
- Telemetry: none

CONTACT
Through the contact form on https://quillmic.com/contact
(routes directly to the support team's private channel).