Local-Dictate

What it does

The free, and completely local alternative to WisprFlow for Windows. Speech-to-text tool for dictation powered by OpenAI Whisper. 100% offline. No subscription. No GPU required. Hold Ctrl+Alt and speak — or tap once to start, tap again to stop. Your words appear at the cursor in any app: browsers, Word, Outlook, VS Code, Notepad. Download, unzip, run. Nothing to install. Try it now!

The free, local alternative to WisprFlow for Windows. Push-to-talk speech-to-text powered by OpenAI Whisper. 100% offline. No subscription. No GPU required.

Audio never leaves your device. No API calls, no cloud processing, no logs. Your speech stays completely private. No subscription, no usage limits, no account required. Open source and free forever. Powered by OpenAI Whisper running locally on your CPU. Transcribes in 2–5 seconds. No GPU needed. Add custom words for names, brands, or technical terms that Whisper keeps getting wrong. It learns your vocabulary. Any app with a text cursor: Chrome, Edge, Word, Outlook, Slack, VS Code, Notepad — anywhere you can type. Hold Ctrl+Alt while speaking, or tap once to start recording and tap again to stop. Works globally across every app. Audio is captured directly into memory on your device — never…from localdictate.vercel.app

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