Dictation in Beeper

Voice dictation in Beeper for replies, group messages, and quick DMs

Beeper unifies WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, Discord, and Slack into one inbox, but you still type every reply by hand. SnailText lets you talk your replies into any chat, and both the transcription and the cleanup run on your machine.

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AI dictation in Beeper, on your device

SnailText is AI dictation: a speech model turns your voice into text, then a second model cleans it up, dropping filler, fixing punctuation, and matching the style your work needs. Both models run on your own machine, so nothing you say in Beeper is uploaded for transcription. Press the hotkey, speak, and the finished text lands at your cursor.

Does Beeper have built-in dictation?

Beeper has no built-in dictation for composing messages. Its "Voice Transcriptions" feature works the other direction: it turns voice notes you receive into readable text, a Beeper Plus paid add-on. There is no way to speak a reply and have it typed. SnailText fills that gap with one hotkey that works in every Beeper chat, no matter which network the conversation rides on.

Speech to text in Beeper: how it works

SnailText does not plug into Beeper directly. It runs system-wide: a global hotkey (Option+Space (Mac) / Ctrl+Space (Windows), customizable) starts recording, the local speech-to-text engine (Whisper or Parakeet) transcribes what you said, and the text is pasted at your cursor through the system clipboard, the same way it lands when you type. That means it works in every Beeper field, plus every other app on your Mac or Windows machine, with no extension or integration to set up.

That matters in Beeper specifically: one unified inbox still means typing every reply by hand, across a dozen networks, all day long. Speech to text removes that bottleneck without changing how you work in Beeper.

Voice to text in Beeper: what to dictate

Voice typing in Beeper is not limited to one box. Press the hotkey anywhere a cursor blinks and your speech becomes text, so the things you would normally type out by hand become things you just say.

· Replies across every network in one inbox, WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, and more
· Longer group messages and announcements
· Quick DMs and follow-ups you would normally thumb-type
· Notes to self and saved messages

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Where typing slows you down in Beeper

· One unified inbox still means typing every reply by hand, across a dozen networks, all day long.
· Beeper reads incoming voice notes to you, but gives you no way to send a reply by voice.
· Switching between a WhatsApp chat and an iMessage chat means the compose box changes, but the typing never stops.

Example dictations for Beeper

Group reply

"Sorry for the slow response, I was heads down all morning. Yes, Thursday at two works for me, I will send a calendar invite with the call link shortly."

Quick DM

"Just landed, grabbing my bags now. Give me about forty minutes and I will meet you at the coffee place across from the station."

Announcement

"Heads up everyone, the release is going out tonight instead of tomorrow. Please hold any new merges to main until you see the all-clear in this thread."

Beeper voice dictation FAQ

Does Beeper have built-in voice dictation?

No. Beeper has no feature that turns your speech into typed text for composing a message. It does have Voice Transcriptions, a Beeper Plus paid feature, but that transcribes voice notes you receive into readable text, which is the opposite of dictation. SnailText lets you speak your replies and types them into any Beeper chat, running the speech model locally.

Does SnailText work across all the networks Beeper connects?

Yes, and identically. SnailText types into whatever text field has focus at the OS level, so it does not care whether the chat is a WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, or Slack conversation inside Beeper. One hotkey, every chat, same behavior.

Can I use voice typing in Beeper?

Yes. SnailText adds voice typing to Beeper on Mac and Windows. Press the hotkey (Option+Space (Mac) / Ctrl+Space (Windows), customizable), speak, and the text lands at your cursor in any Beeper field, the same way it works for voice to text in every other app on your machine.

Does the dictation work offline?

Yes. SnailText runs the speech model on your device, so dictation works with no internet connection after the model is downloaded. The optional AI cleanup model runs locally too.

Is my voice uploaded anywhere?

No. Audio is processed in RAM on your machine and discarded the moment the text is ready. Nothing is sent to a server for transcription.

How much does SnailText cost?

The free tier gives you unlimited local speech-to-text with no account. Pro adds larger models and the on-device AI cleanup, $7.49/mo or $89/yr for up to 3 devices.

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