callebtc / sayit
Private, local text-to-speech for Apple silicon Macs
Why this job: says: text to speech; topics: text-to-speech
What it does
- Speak from anywhere. Select text in another app and press the configurable
- A native menu-bar player. Read the clipboard, pause, seek, change playback
- Open models from Hugging Face. Download supported MLX models in the app,
- Experimental Drama 3. The standard Q4 checkpoint streams locally through
- Create voices. Models expose the features they support, from built-in
Get started
No single install command. Read the steps in the README (opens in new tab)
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit yesterday
- Stars
- 200
- +7 this week
- Licence
- MIT
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- Mac
- From the latest release
- Latest version
- v0.2.2
- Released yesterday
- Built with
- Swift
- 93% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 8
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 50% closed
- 4 still open
- Pull requests
- 27 merged
- 7 waiting
- Releases
- 10
- 10 in the last year
- No contributing guide
- Security policy (opens in new tab)
- No code of conduct
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More: download files, languages, topics and project record
Languages
- Swift 93%
- Shell 2%
- Python 2%
- HTML 2%
Topics
- macos
- mlx-audio
- text-to-speech
Project record
- JobSpeech and audio
- StatusListed
- Commits204
- Forks23
- Watching0
- Stars in 28 days+40
- CreatedJul 30, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 9, 2026