Welcome to Aria

Aria lets you type by speaking, hear text read aloud, and ask an assistant for help with a project. On a Mac or a Linux desktop, you can dictate into other apps with a hotkey.

Start here

Install Aria, then try Mac dictation, Linux dictation, or terminal dictation. Start with one short sentence so you can check the microphone, recognition, and output together.

Once that works, choose what you need next:

• Review or delete saved dictations.
• Read text aloud.
• Chat with an assistant.
• Correct project names.
• Create voice profiles.
• Transcribe audio playing on your Mac.

If setup or recording fails, start with Troubleshooting.

Your data

Dictation and speech generation run locally by default. You can move speech recognition to a personal server. Downloading models needs network access. Chat uses an external assistant, which may send your request and project content to cloud services.

History is on by default. Read Privacy before recording sensitive material; history controls explain what you can change.

For adding speech to your own Rust application, read Using Aria Libraries.