Talk to your email on your Mac
With Liamia Ask you press the mic and say what you want, like “find my Spectrum bill”, and the emails it finds appear on top while the answer can be read aloud. Turn on Hands-free to keep talking, start talking over the answer to ask the next thing, and your words are turned into text by Apple's speech on your Mac.
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How it works
Ask out loud in three steps
Click the mic
The mic sits right of Settings in the Liamia menu bar panel. Ask opens already listening.
Say your question
“Who am I waiting on?” Ask sends it about 2 seconds after you stop, a little longer after a word like “and”.
See it and hear it
The emails fill the top of Ask. The answer is read aloud; click the glowing ball or press Escape to stop it.
Hands-free
Keep talking. Cut in any time.
Talk over the answer
With Hands-free on, start talking while Liamia is speaking. The voice stops at once, and your next question starts with the words you already said.
The microphone uses the Mac's own echo cancellation, so Liamia does not hear itself or most background music.
It waits for you
Hands-free keeps listening through up to 2 minutes of quiet and shows Still listening after 30 seconds. After 2 minutes it turns itself off and says so on screen.
AirPods in or out mid-sentence? Ask keeps every word and carries on.
Things you can say
Find, catch up, clean up
Find
- “Find my Spectrum bill.”
- “Show me emails from yesterday.”
- “What needs a reply today?”
Clean up, with a safety step
- “Delete the ZipRecruiter one.” Liamia opens it and asks “Move this email to Trash?” Say yes or click Delete. Undo works for a minute.
- “Get rid of all my spam.” More than one email always lists each one and waits for your click.
Pick the voice
Answers can be read by Phonon, a natural voice that runs on your Mac through Ollama, or by the Mac's own voice. Choose it, or turn off Read answers aloud, in Settings, Voice.
Voice uses Liamia's built-in assistant, so it needs the local AI set up first.
What it will never do
You stay in charge of your mail
Never sends without your click. Every email waits in a Liamia dialog that shows the exact recipient, subject and text. Only your click on Send sends it. No setting, tool or license skips it.
Never asks for your mail password. Liamia reads the files Apple Mail already keeps on your Mac, through Full Disk Access that you switch on. It holds no password and no sign-in token for your mail.
Never uploads your email to Liamia. Our server only checks your license and offers updates. With the local AI, your mail stays on your Mac. An assistant you connect, like Claude, gets only the messages it reads.
Questions
Short answers
Does my voice leave my Mac?
No. Your words are turned into text by Apple's speech recognition set to run on the device, and answers are spoken by Phonon on your Mac or by the Mac's own voice. The question then goes to the local model on your Mac.
Can I send an email by voice?
You can ask for a draft by voice, but sending always needs your click on Send in Liamia's dialog. Saying yes never sends an email.
How do I stop it reading an answer?
Click the glowing ball next to the question field or press Escape. To stop spoken answers for good, turn off Read answers aloud in Settings, Voice.
Does Liamia hear its own voice?
It is built not to. The microphone uses the Mac's echo cancellation and noise suppression, and the voice plays through the same audio path, so the spoken answer stays out of your question.
What do I need for voice?
A Mac on macOS 14 or later with a microphone, and Liamia's local AI set up through Ollama, because the built-in assistant answers your spoken questions.
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Try it on your own inbox
Every feature, free for 7 days. No card, no sign-up, nothing sends without your click.