For macOS
Hold a key. Speak.
The words land where you were typing.
Tokd lives in the menu bar. It types what you say into any app that takes text, and lets you hear whatever you have selected.
Needs . It does not run on Intel Macs.
Meanwhile, Tokd works in your browser: open Tokd on the web.
macOS will not open this build on its own yet.
Apple has not notarised it, so the first time you open Tokd, macOS stops it. Open System
Settings › Privacy & Security, choose Open Anyway beside the message about Tokd, and
confirm. You do this once for each build.
Installing it
- Open the disk image you downloaded. A window opens with Tokd beside your Applications folder.
- Drag Tokd into Applications. Then eject the disk image. You will not need it again.
- Open Tokd from Applications. Its icon leaves the Dock after a moment: Tokd lives in the menu bar, at the top right of the screen.
What it asks for the first time
- The microphone. macOS asks once. Tokd cannot hear you until you allow it.
- Accessibility. This is the one people miss. macOS lets an app type into other apps only once you allow it by hand: when it asks, choose Open System Settings, then switch Tokd on in the Accessibility list. Until you do, holding the key types nothing, and Tokd says so in its menu.
- Your Tokd account. Tokd opens its sign-in page in your browser. Sign in, or create an account: the menu bar app does nothing until it is signed in.
After an update
A new copy of Tokd is a new app as far as macOS is concerned, so its Accessibility permission can go stale. If Tokd stops typing after an update, open System Settings › Privacy & Security › Accessibility, remove Tokd with the minus button, and add it again with the plus button. Switching it off and on is not enough.
This build
- Version
- Size
- Published
- SHA-256
To check the file you downloaded, run shasum -a 256 on it in
Terminal. It prints this checksum.