Talk to your tutor out loud
DuckyHelper is a tutor you talk to. You ask out loud, the way you would ask a person, and it answers out loud while it shows you the steps. On a Mac, press fn in any app and a small pill springs up at the bottom of your screen and listens. In the app's Eddy tab, you press Talk to Eddy.
Press fn, in any app.
Press fn, the globe key, wherever you are working. A dark glass pill springs up near your mouse and listens. Ask about the thing in front of you and Ducky answers out loud, with captions timed to each word, while the steps stream into a card. Press fn again, or the X, to put it away.
The pill stays in front of your other windows, so you keep working in the app you were in while you talk.
While DuckyHelper runs, fn opens the pill instead of the emoji picker. Emoji are still on Control-Command-Space, and uninstalling DuckyHelper gives fn back to macOS.
Click the duck in the menu bar and pick Talk to Ducky. It opens the same pill.
Apple silicon and macOS 14 Sonoma or later. It asks for the Microphone, to hear you, and Input Monitoring, so fn works from any app.
In its own tab, talk to Eddy.
Open the Eddy tab in the DuckyHelper app. Click Start talking to Eddy, or press the space bar, and ask. Eddy answers out loud with the words on screen, and shows you on its desk: a blackboard, a picture with labels, a quick check. Eddy never sees your screen; that is Ducky, in the pill.
The chip at the left of the bar: Eddy picks, Just words, Look it up for real sources, A picture, or A scene. Or let Eddy pick.
Customize Eddy has eight voices, and each plays a short preview. A new voice starts with your next voice chat.
Ask like you would ask a person.
Say what you are stuck on in your own words, then keep talking. Each follow-up changes what it shows you, the way a tutor at the table would.
It talks back
Answers come out loud, with captions you can read along with.
It shows while it talks
Steps, graphs and drawings appear as the voice reaches them, not after.
Keep going
Ask a follow-up any time: show me on the graph, what if I flip the line.
No button. Just talk.
After your first talk, Eddy offers hands-free listening. Turn it on and you can just start talking whenever Eddy's page is in front. Nothing is sent until you talk, and it ends after 20 seconds of quiet on both sides.
Hands-free listens only while Eddy's page is the one in front of you. Switch tabs and it stops.
Settings, General, Hands-free listening. It is off until you turn it on.
Press fn. Ask anything.
How a question goes on a Mac, from the key to the answer.
- 1. Press fn
In any app. The pill springs up at the bottom of the screen and listens.
- 2. Ask out loud
What does this graph mean? Your words show in the pill as you talk.
- 3. It answers and shows you
It circles what matters on your screen and talks you through the steps, one at a time.
- 4. Keep talking, then press fn again
Ask a follow-up any time. Press fn again and the pill goes away and the mic turns off.
In the Eddy tab it is the same idea: Start talking to Eddy, or the space bar.
A tutor that listens back.
Talking it through, one question at a time, is how a tutor at your table teaches. DuckyHelper's model is trained on 1,000,000+ tutoring examples and built on 100+ learning-science papers, so it answers the way a tutor would: a question back, a hint, then the next step. The learning science behind it: Teach one on one.
How to use it
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to talk?
Yes: DuckyHelper is voice only. In the Mac app, press fn and ask Ducky out loud; in the Eddy tab, press Talk to Eddy or the space bar. In a quiz you can still type an answer, like a math step. Pricing shows how much talking each plan includes.
Which key opens DuckyHelper on a Mac?
Press fn, the globe key at the bottom left of the keyboard, in any app. You can also click the duck in the menu bar and pick Talk to Ducky. Press fn again, or the X in the pill, to put it away.
Does the fn key still open emoji?
While DuckyHelper runs, fn opens the pill instead of the emoji picker. The emoji picker is still on Control-Command-Space, so nothing is lost. If you uninstall DuckyHelper, it gives the fn key back to macOS.
Is it listening all the time?
No. On a Mac, Ducky listens while the pill is open, and pressing fn again puts the pill away and turns the mic off. In the Eddy tab, Eddy listens when you press Talk to Eddy, or, with hands-free listening on, while the Eddy tab is in front. Hands-free stops after 20 seconds of quiet.
What do I need to talk to it?
A Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 14 Sonoma or later, a microphone, and the Microphone and Input Monitoring switches the app asks for when you set it up. If the mic is blocked, the app says what to turn on. There is no Chromebook or web version right now.
Can I change Eddy's voice?
Yes. Customize Eddy, on the start page or in Settings, has eight voices to pick from, and each one plays a short preview. You can also pick an animal and a background. A new voice starts with your next voice chat.
More features
Ask your first question
Press fn on your Mac, or open the Eddy tab and press Start talking.
