My father thinks in Bengali, but typing in native script is painful. Virtual keyboards are slow, punctuation is a maze, and switching between languages breaks flow. For formal writing — emails, letters, posts — it was exhausting.

So I built him a tool where he could just speak.

He dictated a two-page letter in Bengali, read the transcription, and said: "I didn't even need to change a single comma."

That's when I knew this needed to exist.

Parrot transcribes and translates speech in 11+ Indian languages. The difference: it's significantly more accurate than Whisper on Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, and handles code-mixed speech (Hinglish, etc.) naturally. Outputs in native scripts (নমস্কার not "nomoshkar") or Romanized.

Sits in your menu bar. Press a hotkey, speak in any app — WhatsApp Web, Word, Slack, browsers. It writes.

Built for everyone who thinks in their language but struggles with virtual keyboards that don't correct grammar or formatting.

Desktop app for Windows & macOS. Free to try.

Shipping improvements weekly. Would love feedback from anyone dealing with multilingual input.