Stop typing
your prompts
Tap a key, say what you want, and the text lands where your cursor already is. It runs on your own PC.
Download for Windows
Free and open source. No account, no word limit.
Press Ctrl + Space to dictate
Tap a key, say what you want, and the text lands where your cursor already is. It runs on your own PC.
Free and open source. No account, no word limit.
Press Ctrl + Space to dictate
Same prompt, less than half the time. That is the whole pitch.
Average typing speed against average speaking speed. Your own numbers will be different, and the app counts them for you.
That is the whole thing. No window to switch to, nothing to copy.
set it once · use it anywhere
Tap your hotkey in whatever app is already in front of you. Prefer push-to-talk? Hold it instead.
no upload step
Say the messy version out loud. Whisper writes it down on your own PC, and your dictionary handles the names and jargon.
Transcribing locally…
Tap again and the text pastes at your cursor. No window to switch to, nothing to copy.
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set it once · use it anywhere
Dictation lands on top of whatever you were already doing. The app turns things down while you speak, then puts them back.
The volume drops.
System volume goes down the moment you start talking, and back to where you had it when you stop. Set it to full mute if half is not quiet enough.
Your call stays quiet.
Set your push-to-mute key once, and a live Discord, Slack, Teams or Zoom call does not hear the dictation.
Nothing stays changed.
It only undoes what it did. The volume comes back, the mute key is released, and a run that ends badly is put right on the next start.
Local Whisper is the default. No upload, no API key, no account. Cloud is there if you want it, and it stays off until you switch it on.
An NVIDIA card makes it near instant. Without one it still works, it just takes longer. Either way you are not waiting in someone else's queue.
You talk for ten seconds
The text is already in your app, before your finger is off the key.
RTX 3090, measured with the app's own speed test. Run it on yours.
Every feature, no word limit, no account, no card.
Windows 10 or 11. NVIDIA CUDA acceleration is included, but optional.
The code is open source under the GPL. Read it on GitHub.
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If it saves you time, tell a colleague about it.