Features
Everything Ariadne Voice can do
Eight things Ariadne does from a spoken sentence. It does not replace your screen reader: that reads, this acts.
Why bother, when you already have VoiceOver
VoiceOver is irreplaceable and Ariadne does not push it aside. It tells you what is on screen, where the cursor sits and what a button is called. But you still walk through the windows, lists and fields yourself.
Ariadne Voice takes the sentence you say and sees it through. “Find the contract from Kowalski and reply that I agree” is one sentence instead of ten steps through windows, lists and fields.
What you get
Eight things we started from.
Home control
Camera snapshots
Where people are
Running your Mac
Plugins
Conversation memory
The wake word stays with you
This is how you talk to it
No commands to memorise. Ordinary sentences, the way you would say them to a person.
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Summarise today's mail and tell me what needs an answer.
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Find the contract from Kowalski and reply that I agree.
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What's on my calendar tomorrow morning?
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Turn off the living room lights and check the door is locked.
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Is there a car outside?
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Describe this chart on my screen.
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SSH into the server and check the disk space.
If a task takes more than a moment, Ariadne says so. Esc stops it at any time.
Less obvious, and used daily
The things nobody asks about at first, and then uses every day.
Notes and reminders
Describing what's on screen
Searching the web and reading pages
Shell and SSH
Shortcuts and automations
Your own wake word
Built for listening
Built for someone who will not glance at the screen to check what is happening.
- During a conversation music and video duck so they do not drown the answer. You set how much.
- You can cut in at any moment: Ariadne stops and listens, the way a person would.
- While a task runs you can hear that it is still working. Silence never means “no idea”.
- Ariadne says only what actually follows from the result, and when something failed, it says so with the reason.
- Esc stops speech and a running task, from any app.
- The shortcut works even when the Ariadne window is closed.
What Ariadne does not do
It is not a medical device and not a safety system. Do not rely on it where health, life or property is at stake.
Speech recognition can mishear and the model can be wrong. Before anything that cannot be undone, such as sending a message, deleting a file or unlocking a door, Ariadne asks. But that does not replace your attention.
See for yourself
Downloading is free, and uninstalling is one drag to the bin.
Requires a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 26 or later. The app updates itself quietly and holds the install until your conversation ends, so nothing interrupts you mid-sentence.