Dictating screenplay dialogue on a Mac

Beatstack's dictation runs a speech model entirely on your Mac, so nothing you say leaves the machine. It writes screenplay dialogue as you speak.

Dictation demoed well, and then a writer used it for real: thirteen seconds of silence, then a sentence that had already changed shape twice. The model we started with was built to read a finished recording, not a live microphone. Every live demo you have watched re-runs that model over a growing recording, which is why the words rewrite themselves behind you the longer you talk.

The Mac already ships a recogniser built for a live voice. Swapping it in deleted the model, and the audio still never leaves your machine.

One real loss. The old model could be told your characters' names. The new one cannot learn them yet, and character names are where a dictating screenwriter pays for the difference: get a name wrong and the page reads as a mistake whether the writer meant it or not.

Dictated text counts as yours. It clears the AI-written mark the same way typing does, which is worth knowing if you write dialogue out loud: every field the app's AI writes stays marked until a human touches it.

We traded accuracy on names for a sentence that arrives while you are still saying it.