¿Alder escribe los acentos y signos correctamente?

Sí — á, é, í, ñ, ü, ¿ and ¡ come out right because the engine writes Spanish natively. You stop fixing accents by hand; that alone is worth the switch for many people.

Does it handle Spanglish — mixing Spanish and English?

Yes. Code-switching is a first-class case, not an afterthought: "Mándame el update antes del standup" keeps the English words as English inside a Spanish sentence.

¿Mi voz se sube a algún servidor?

No. El reconocimiento, la limpieza y la traducción se ejecutan en tu Mac. El audio y el texto de tus dictados no se suben a ningún servidor.

Dictation by language · Updated August 25, 2026

Spanish dictation with every accent in place.

Typing Spanish on a Mac means fighting the keyboard — hunting for á, ñ, ¿ and ¡ while the thought gets away. Dictado por voz fixes that: speak naturally, and Alder types finished Spanish — accents, signs, and all — without your voice ever leaving the Mac.

Accents and signs, handled for you

The fastest way to appreciate Spanish dictation is to stop typing it. Alder writes español natively — “¿Cuándo envías la versión final?” arrives with the opening question mark and every accent where it belongs. No switching keyboard layouts, no fixing “cuando” into “cuándo” afterward. You talk; the sentence is simply correct.

Spanglish is a feature, not a bug

Tens of millions of people switch between Spanish and English in the same breath — at work, at home, mid-sentence. “Mándame el update antes del standup” is a perfectly normal thing to say, and most dictation tools butcher it. Alder treats code-switching as a normal way of speaking, not an error to be tolerated: the English words stay English, the Spanish stays Spanish, and the sentence comes out the way you said it.

Exact words or a cleaner draft — tú eliges

Everyone says este, pues, o sea. With cleanup on, Alder removes the fillers and stumbles and leaves your meaning intact — no rewriting, no “improving” your ideas. With cleanup off, you get a verbatim transcript, useful for quotes and notes where every word matters. It’s one switch, and you can flip it per dictation.

Speak Spanish, deliver English

Alder translates right on the device: dictate “Enviamos la beta el viernes” and, if you’ve set English output, “We’ll send the beta on Friday.” lands at your cursor — a native A-to-B flow with no cloud in between. Perfect when you think in español but the message has to ship in English. Set it back to “Same as Spoken” and Alder types your Spanish as Spanish.

You will never wonder what happened

When a microphone disconnects mid-sentence, when a recording gets cut off, when an app refuses to accept text — Alder tells you. No empty results passed off as success, no words silently dropped. Interrupted recordings are kept and offered back; blocked insertions stay on the result card ready to paste. Lo que dijiste, lo conservas.

Privacy works the same way — structurally. Recognition, cleanup, and translation run on your Mac. Tu voz no se sube a ningún servidor.

Preguntas frecuentes · FAQ

¿Alder escribe los acentos y signos correctamente? Sí — á, é, í, ñ, ü, ¿ and ¡ come out right because the engine writes Spanish natively. You stop fixing accents by hand; that alone is worth the switch for many people.
Does it handle Spanglish — mixing Spanish and English? Yes. Code-switching is a first-class case, not an afterthought: "Mándame el update antes del standup" keeps the English words as English inside a Spanish sentence.
¿Mi voz se sube a algún servidor? No. El reconocimiento, la limpieza y la traducción se ejecutan en tu Mac. El audio y el texto de tus dictados no se suben a ningún servidor.

Alder is built the same way for every language it supports — Chinese dictation · 中文听写, Japanese dictation · 日本語音声入力, Korean dictation · 한국어 받아쓰기 and German dictation · Diktieren auf Deutsch run on the same on-device pipeline. The engineering behind it is in Why Alder runs multiple speech models.