Speak Hindi, English, or both in one sentence. Bolio types it into any app, prompts your AI, and writes your meeting notes.
macOS on Apple Silicon · ~18 MB · notarized
English-first dictation does not hear two languages. It hears one language spoken badly, guesses phonetically, and hands you a sentence to repair, slower than typing it. Bolio expects you to switch mid-thought.
“Team ko bata dijiye ki launch date aage badhani padegi, roughly two weeks.”
“Team co bata digital key launch date aage but honey pad degree, roughly two weeks.”
Team को बता दीजिए कि launch date आगे बढ़ानी पड़ेगी, roughly two weeks.
Nobody types the paragraph of background that would have earned them a good answer. They type one line and blame the model. And the part you would most want to explain is the part you think in Hindi.
Say all of it instead. ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor read Hinglish perfectly well; it was only ever the keyboard that couldn't.
No window to dictate into and then copy out of. Leave the cursor where it already is, hold the key, talk, let go. Or tap Fn + Space and go hands-free.
Press start and Bolio records both ends of the call on separate tracks, so who said what is something it knows rather than infers. Press stop and the transcript, the speakers and the notes are waiting.
Words appear while you are still speaking. Let go of the key and it has already finished.
No API key, no provider account, no model to choose. Open it and the good engine is already running.
Client names, product names, the acronyms only your team says. Add them once and it stops mangling them.
The “umm”s, the false starts, the repeated words: gone, with punctuation where you paused. How your data is handled →
Nothing to install and no card to start. Bolio Cloud (the engine that handles Hinglish best) is metered, and a paid tier is coming for people who lean on it; on-device dictation is not metered. The numbers get published before anyone is asked for money.
On Bolio Cloud it goes to our transcription provider and comes back as text, and we keep those recordings; that is how Hinglish accuracy keeps improving, and why it works on day one with nothing to configure. Prefer that never happened? Switch to on-device and the audio stays on your computer.
Because that is the permission macOS requires before one app may type into another. Without it Bolio can hear you perfectly and has nowhere to put the words. It is not used for reading your screen or anything else.
Good enough that you stop reaching for the keyboard, and better than the English-first tools on the code-switched sentences that break them; that gap is the reason this exists. Not flawless: unusual proper nouns, heavy background noise and deep jargon still need the occasional fix. You can teach it your own vocabulary to cut most of that down.
Not yet. Bolio is Mac-only today, on Apple Silicon. A Windows build is wanted and not promised on a date, so rather than a coming-soon banner: email us and you will hear the day it exists. How many people ask is what decides when it gets built.
Yes, in on-device mode. Download a local model once and dictation keeps working with no connection at all. Managed cloud mode needs the internet, as you would expect.
Thirty seconds to install. Then stop writing Hindi in an English keyboard.
macOS on Apple Silicon · built in India