How the test went
Download, install and setup
The developer had contacted the tester after the Sprich test went online. The DMG is small, 6.5 MB by the tester's reading; no screenshot. The directory lists about 6.3 MB for version 0.3.33 (third-party).
The installer window shows Applications on the left and Univocal on the right, the reverse of the usual layout. The drag step is still needed.
On first open macOS asked "Are you sure you want to open it?" and stated that Chrome downloaded the file at 11:06 and that Apple found no malicious software. Signing and notarisation status are not shown.
A licence window opened before setup: version 1.0, effective 23 September 2026, between the user and NarNar Labs LLC, covering the app, its companion browser extension and the speech models. Buttons: Quit, Agree. A 30-day refund is offered to buyers who disagree. Only the first lines were read.
"All other apps just opened and nothing was there. This one actually has licence terms and something to click through." Not checked app by app.
Setup presets English (United Kingdom) as primary and lets the user add languages from a long list; the first language is also the language of the app windows and the order can be dragged. German and French were added.
A popup said a better German voice is a free macOS download and gave four steps: Read & Speak, the info icon next to System voice, German in the left column, the download icon next to an Enhanced or Premium voice. The tester followed it and found no premium voices, though he knows such voices exist on iOS. Which step failed is not recorded.
Setup asked for two permissions: Accessibility (ticked) and Microphone (Grant). The download button read "Wait for advanced voices", 16 %, about 23 min, and "Start now" waited for both permissions.
The main window showed "Downloading the dictation model (574 MB)... 17%" and a Dictate tile at 39 %; the Read aloud tile was ready with Option-Shift-R. What the two percentages measure and the total download size are not recorded. The window says the download "happens once and takes a few minutes"; the total time was not recorded.
The voice picker lists voices by language with a search box, All/Female/Male filters, a "Your languages" menu and a play button per voice; Apple's voices carry an Apple tag. German (Germany) showed Anna ticked. The tester finds the voice choice well organised.
In the "Hear it" step Option-Shift-R opened a reader window with the welcome text, Play, speed 1x, language Auto (English), voice Emma, text size and Escape to close. Whether audio played and words were highlighted is not recorded.
Usage
In the "Say something" step, holding Left Control and speaking typed "Hello, what's going on? Does it work?" into the box; both steps were ticked.
Dictation produced English, French and German text in the notes, including German spoken very fast on purpose, which the tester says worked. No language switch is recorded between them; the Dictation page says "Mix your languages" (assumption: automatic detection). No time, accuracy count or target app is recorded.
Dictation settings: voice key Left Control, mode Push (selected) or Toggle, "Remove fillers and false starts" on, "Keep transcript on clipboard" off, "Type words as you speak" off, listening glow on, spinner while processing, and a Recent dictations list. The tester likes that both modes are offered.
General settings: version 0.3.33, launch at login on, Dock icon on, language English, appearance System, automatic update check on. The tabs are Languages, Dictation, Read Aloud, Connections, Vocabulary, Permissions and Licence; Connections and Vocabulary were not opened.
The Languages list shows English (United Kingdom) primary with Emma, German (Germany) with Wren and French (France) with Siwis, each with a play button. The tester calls the names funny.
Reading aloud did not start when the tester marked text and pressed the button, and he could not change the key. Which text, app and key were used is not recorded. The shortcut worked once in the setup step.
Read Aloud settings: speed 1x, "Use a separate shortcut" on, a Shortcut field reading "Press keys...", "Format Markdown" on, an opacity slider, highlight colours and a history. Whether the field was empty or showed a prompt is unclear (assumption: possible cause of the failure).
A spoken English request to list "cat, house, dog" and a German request ("Bitte als Bullet Points") gave no bullets; the German result joined two words into "Katzenhaus". No screenshot. The tester says another app he tried did the same.
The tester kept three speech and model programs open at once and the Mac still worked; nothing was measured. He puts it down to each using a small model.
"Soon my computer runs out of keys for all of these special functions."
Decision
The notes end with the bullet-point test and the pricing and trial note; no decision on continued use is stated.
The app shows "Trial · 14 days left" and a Buy button. The vendor site (screenshot, not shown here) states $39 once, a Black Friday price of $15 with a code from 20 to 30 November, 14 days free, no subscription and no account. No account step is among the screenshots.
He is surprised that another dictation tool he tested carried a formatting engine of more than 2 GB while this one shows a 574 MB dictation model.
"It is very well done with the languages: you can really define which languages you want to use."