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July 21, 2026

Speak Italian, Get English: How Writhere's Live Translation Works

Sometimes the sentence forms in one language and needs to land in another — a message to an English-speaking colleague, a note that has to end up in a second language for someone else to read. Writhere can do that translation as part of dictation itself.

Quick answer
Turn on Writhere's translation setting, pick a target language, and it types your dictation already translated — you speak Italian, the text that appears is English (or whichever language you set). This runs on a local model on your Mac, not a cloud translation API.

How it's different from just dictating and then translating

You could dictate normally and paste the result into a separate translator — that's two steps, and it breaks the moment you're mid-thought. Writhere's translation setting folds the translation into the same pass that produces the text, so what lands in the app is already in the target language.

Where this is opt-in, deliberately

Translation is a setting you turn on, not the default — most dictation should just become text in the language you spoke it. When you do want translation, you choose the target language once in Settings and it applies until you turn it off.

On-device, not a cloud translation call

Writhere's translation runs through a local model on your Mac, the same way its speech-to-text and formatting do — it's a separate feature from the optional cloud AI cleanup toggle, and does not require an API key or an internet connection to work.

The bottom line

Speak in the language that's natural to you. If you need it to land in another one, that's one setting away — not a separate app, not a copy-paste, not a cloud request.