“Scratch that.”
Say it after a sentence and the sentence is gone.
Your voice. Your machine.
Talk. It types.
Press ⌃ Space anywhere and talk. Clean text lands at your cursor, and nothing leaves your device.
Talk in any app. Your words show up as you speak, then land at your cursor with the punctuation in.
Select text, say what to change. Dictait rewrites it in place.
Talk the way you talk.
Pause, change your mind, give it an instruction. Dictait keeps up, and every one of these works in any app.
“New paragraph.”
Breaks the text right where you say it. “New line” works too.
“…as bullet points.”
End a dictation with it and get a tidy list. A numbered list works the same way.
Hold ⌃ Space
Hold to talk and let go to paste. Or tap once to start and once to stop.
“Qwen,” not “queen.”
Correct a name once and Dictait offers to remember it for next time.
Paste it again.
⌃ ⌥ V puts your last dictation wherever your cursor is now.
It never leaves your device.
Dictait runs on your computer’s own chip, on Mac, Windows or Linux. No server hears your voice, so there is nothing to upload, no account to make, and it works with the Wi-Fi off.
- ON-DEVICE SPEECHYour voice → your words.Speech becomes text on your device. Nothing is ever sent anywhere.
- CLOUD UPLOADS0bytesNothing to send.Your recordings are deleted after transcription.
- Wi-Fi off. Ideas on.One model download, about 3 GB. Then dictate offline.
Free. Private. Yours.
Open source under the MIT license. No account, no subscription, nothing to sign in to.
Download for Mac
Apple Silicon · macOS 14 or later · v0.5.0
or in Terminal
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/soorajsatheesan/Dictait/main/install.sh | shOpening the .dmg? Allow it once in System Settings → Privacy & Security.
Download for Linux
Debian, Ubuntu and Mint · v0.5.0
Unpack it and follow INSTALL.txt. Super+I to talk.
Download for Windows
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit · v0.5.0
Unzip and open Dictait.exe. Ctrl+Alt+Space to talk.