Interface
Quiet by design.
A pill by the notch, a menu bar icon, a meetings library. That's all the UI there is — the rest is your voice.
Alpha coming soon · macOS
Dictation, meeting notes and voice control — one native app, one audio engine, zero audio leaving the machine.
Join the waitlistYour hands are the bottleneck
between you and the machine.
And the tools that fix it are fragmented: one app to dictate, another to take meeting notes, nothing to act on what you say.
The setup
The first A dictation app — that types as fast as you talk.
The second A note-taker — that sits in on every meeting.
The third A voice — that operates your computer.
Voice is not a feature to bolt onto software. It is the next interface layer.
System-wide dictation — hold fn, speak, release, in any app. Fillers cut, self-corrections applied, spoken punctuation inserted. Say “press enter” to send.
Bot-free meeting notes. Parlo notices the meeting, captures both sides of the call locally, and turns it into a transcript and structured notes in your library.
Say it, it's done — hold fn+ctrl and speak. Confirmation-gated, interruptible, without stealing your focus.
Why Parlo
One pipeline, on-device: the speech recognition and the language model that understand you both run locally on Apple Silicon. After a one-time model download, dictation and commands work with Wi-Fi off. Audio never has to leave the Mac.
Meetings
Parlo notices when you're in a meeting — calendar invite or just a call that started — and offers to record. Afterwards it transcribes and writes structured notes, all with the same local models. Recordings, transcripts and notes live in a folder on your Mac. Nowhere else.
A discreet prompt appears by the notch when a meeting starts. One key to record, or ignore it.
Your mic and the system audio, captured locally. Dictation and commands keep working mid-meeting.
A full transcript and clean notes, ready in your library minutes after the call ends.
Interface
A pill by the notch, a menu bar icon, a meetings library. That's all the UI there is — the rest is your voice.
Why now
A product like this couldn't exist three years ago. Then three unlocks landed, back to back:
2024
Streaming transcription faster than you speak, on Apple Silicon. Sub-second, offline, free at the margin.
2025
Small on-device models turn rambling into prose — fillers cut, self-corrections applied, tone matched.
2026
The last mile — from transcribe to act on your computer — just opened. That's the part Parlo runs with.
Each unlock spawned a single-feature app. The durable one owns the whole layer.
Now
Write, listen and act in one native app — what the alpha cohort gets first.
Next
Dictation on iPhone, your phone as a companion remote for meeting capture.
Then
Any app registers voice intents with Parlo. The bundle becomes the platform.
Alpha users steer this roadmap. That's the point of the alpha.
Pricing
A power user pays $30+/month across point-solutions today — one app to dictate, another for meeting notes, nothing that acts. Parlo replaces the stack.
Payment happens when your invite arrives — joining the waitlist is free and unconditional.
Waitlist
Alpha invites go out in waitlist order. Leave your email and we'll keep you posted — your invite first, progress updates along the way.