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What is Whisper Island?

Whisper Island is a macOS app from the Coddo team that turns voice transcription into a system-wide shortcut. You hold (or toggle) a global shortcut, you speak, and the transcribed text is pasted directly into the active app via Cmd+V — Slack, Notion, your IDE, your browser, your mail client. Anywhere, without leaving the window you’re in. The overlay lives in your MacBook’s notch, or as a floating pill near the top of the screen. Always there, never in the way.

Pill or notch overlay

A floating pill near the top of the screen, or an overlay tucked into the MacBook notch. Pick the one that suits your workflow.

Push-to-talk or toggle

Hold a shortcut to record, release to transcribe. Or tap once to start, tap again to stop.

Same Coddo account

One login, one quota, two apps. Voice usage is shared with Coddo’s integrated dictation.

Local audio capture

Audio is captured locally and sent to the Coddo backend only for transcription. Your OpenAI key never leaves the server.

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How it works

1

Bind a global shortcut

By default Cmd+Shift+Space. Configurable from Settings.
2

Speak

Hold the shortcut (push-to-talk) or tap to start (toggle). The overlay lights up while recording.
3

Text is pasted

Whisper Island writes the transcribed text into the active app via Cmd+V, then restores your previous clipboard.

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Designed to disappear

Whisper Island is built to be invisible between uses and pixel-perfect when you speak.
  • The notch mode uses macOS-private window levels so the overlay sits above the menu bar without stealing focus.
  • The pill mode is click-through except inside the visible shape — your cursor passes right through the rest of the window.
  • When Coddo Desktop is running, the mic shortcut becomes a no-op so the same key combo doesn’t double-fire.

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Who is it for?

If you write a lot every day — messages, docs, emails, task briefs — voice transcription gives you back hours every week. Whisper Island is designed for people who want the speed of voice without leaving the app they’re already in.

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Get started

Installation

Download and install Whisper Island on your Mac.

Quick Start

Set up your shortcut and dictate your first message.

Overlay modes

Choose between the pill and the notch overlay.

Recording modes

Push-to-talk vs toggle, and when to use each.
Whisper Island is macOS only for the moment. On Windows and Linux, you can still use Coddo’s built-in Voice Dictation inside the Coddo app.