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Quickstart

Install Tyll in five minutes, record your first dictation, and transcribe your first meeting.

Tyll runs entirely on your Mac. There’s no account to create, nothing extra to download, no server to set up. This quickstart takes you from the installer to your first finished transcript.

What you need

  • macOS 15 (Sequoia) or newer
  • A Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer)
  • About 2 GB of free space for the speech recognition that comes with the app

1. Open the installer

Download Tyll.pkg from the Download page. The package is signed and checked by Apple, so your Mac accepts it without any right-click workaround.

Double-click Tyll.pkg to run the installer. It sets up three things:

  1. Tyll.app in your Applications folder
  2. A small helper that runs quietly in the background and handles audio
  3. Tyll Audio — an audio device your Mac can use, which lets Tyll record meetings

2. Grant permissions

The first time you open Tyll, it asks for four permissions. None of them are required, but each one unlocks a feature. See Permissions for the full picture.

  • Microphone — for any recording
  • Input Monitoring — so the dictation shortcut works anywhere
  • Accessibility — so dictated text drops straight into the app you’re using
  • Screen Recording — optional, set aside for future features

3. Your first dictation

Press ⌥+Space. A small window appears in a corner of your screen. Speak, then let go — Tyll finishes the text and drops it into whatever app you’re working in.

You won’t see text appear word by word while you talk. Tyll waits until you’re done and commits once — which is far more accurate than guessing live.

Your last three dictations stay in that little window, and you can copy any of them with a click. Close the window and they’re gone.

4. Your first meeting

  1. Open Zoom, Meet, or Teams.
  2. Pick Tyll Audio as both your microphone and your speaker.
  3. Click + Recording in Tyll.
  4. Run your meeting as usual.
  5. When you stop, Tyll works out who was speaking. You confirm and name them.
  6. Tyll then writes the final transcript with speaker names and timestamps.

What’s next?

  • Permissions explains what Tyll asks for and why.
  • Installation covers what gets installed and how to remove it cleanly.