Sayit

SayIt is a text to speech app for Mac that reads selected text aloud using open models that run entirely on the machine. The vendor states that it uses no cloud, no accounts and no analytics, so the text a user has selected never leaves the computer. The workflow is built around a hotkey. A user selects text in any app, presses the shortcut, and SayIt speaks it. A player sits in the menu bar, where listeners can follow the spoken word, scrub a waveform, change the playback speed and browse a history of earlier reads. A model library lets users choose among open voice models. Each model is downloaded once from Hugging Face, and after that it speaks offline. SayIt suits people who want a private reader for articles, documents, drafts or notes, and who prefer local processing to a hosted voice service. It requires macOS 15 or later and an Apple silicon Mac. The app is free and open source, with the source code published on GitHub and a direct download for macOS offered from the site. The vendor does not publish any paid plans.