For Educators

Teach, don't type.

You became a teacher to work with students, not to spend your evenings writing feedback comments and formatting lesson plans. Yaps lets you dictate everything, create audio learning materials, and review student work by listening — all processed locally on your Mac.

See how it helps

0+ hrs

Weekly on admin tasks (avg teacher)

~150 wpm

Dictation speed

On-device processing

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Student data transmitted

Audio lessons with natural voices

Yaps TTS

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The admin burden

Writing detailed feedback on 30 student papers takes an entire weekend

Lesson plans demand hours of typing that could be spent on actual teaching

Creating audio materials for diverse learners requires expensive or clunky tools

Student data in cloud dictation tools raises FERPA and privacy concerns

Grading written work on screen leads to eye strain and shallow comments

Curriculum documents pile up and there's never enough time to write them properly

The Yaps approach

Dictate personalized feedback on each paper in two minutes instead of ten

Speak your lesson plans into any document — Yaps handles formatting and punctuation

Use Yaps Studio to generate audio lessons, reading guides, and study materials with text-to-speech

All processing happens on your Mac — no student names or grades reach any server

Have Yaps read student papers aloud so you can listen and then dictate your response

Dictate curriculum outlines, rubrics, and course descriptions at speaking speed

Your voice is your best teaching tool

Features designed for the reality of modern teaching.

Dictate Feedback and Plans

Hold Fn and speak your lesson plan, student feedback, or email to parents. Auto-punctuation formats everything cleanly. What took 30 minutes to type takes 5 minutes to dictate.

Read Student Work Aloud

Select a student essay and have Yaps read it in a natural voice. Listening to papers reveals structural issues, voice inconsistencies, and argument gaps that silent reading misses.

Create Audio Lessons

Use Yaps Studio to turn your written materials into audio files. Paste text, choose a voice, and generate explanations, reading guides, vocabulary lessons, and study prompts that students can listen to on their own time.

Works Without School Wi-Fi

Campus networks are unreliable. Yaps runs offline for core dictation and TTS. Dictate at home, at school, on the bus, or anywhere — no internet needed for speech-to-text or text-to-speech. Voice commands use cloud AI for interpretation.

Accessibility for Students

Create audio versions of handouts for students with visual impairments or dyslexia. TTS lets you provide materials in formats that meet diverse learning needs without extra cost.

Observation Notes

Record quick voice notes during class observations, student conferences, or parent meetings. Yaps transcribes them locally so you have a searchable record of every conversation.

From the classroom to the gradebook

Real workflows for teachers, professors, and curriculum developers.

Grading with Your Voice

Open a student paper, have Yaps read it aloud, then dictate your feedback directly into the grading rubric or comment field. Each paper gets thoughtful, detailed comments in a fraction of the time.

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Strong thesis statement, Maya. Your second body paragraph would benefit from a specific example to support the claim about climate policy. Solid conclusion.

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Lesson Planning

Speak your lesson objectives, activities, materials needed, and assessment criteria into a document. Dictation captures the flow of your thinking in a way that typing rarely matches.

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Monday: introduce persuasive essay structure. Activity: analyze two sample editorials in pairs. Assessment: exit ticket identifying thesis, evidence, and counterargument.

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Parent and Student Emails

Dictate thoughtful emails to parents about student progress, behavior notes, or upcoming events. Speaking naturally produces warmer, more personal communication than quick typed messages.

“

Hi Mrs. Alvarez, I wanted to let you know that Sofia has been doing excellent work on her research project this week. Her presentation skills have really grown.

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Curriculum Development

Dictate course outlines, unit plans, scope and sequence documents, and assessment frameworks. Turn weeks of typing into days of speaking and editing.

Lecture Preparation

Talk through your lecture notes and let Yaps transcribe them into an outline. Many professors find that spoken prep produces more engaging, conversational lecture delivery.

Letters of Recommendation

Dictate personalized recommendation letters for students. Speaking about a student's strengths produces warmer, more authentic prose than staring at a template on screen.

Hear from people like you.

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“I teach 120 students across four sections. Grading used to consume my entire weekend. Now I have Yaps read each paper to me, then I dictate my feedback. What used to take 8 minutes per paper takes about 3. That's 10 hours I get back every grading cycle. The feedback is actually better too — when I speak it, I'm more conversational and specific instead of defaulting to generic comments. My students have noticed the difference.”

Prof. Michael Torres

Education Department

Spend time teaching, not typing.

Dictate feedback. Create audio lessons. Review papers by listening. All on your Mac.

Requires macOS 13.0+ (Apple Silicon recommended)