Dictation
4 projects tagged Dictation, in the order of our ranking. Some replace a paid product; others are free tools people use alongside one.
Most often they replace ElevenLabs, Descript or Otter.ai. 4 of 4 run on your own machine. The most starred is Voicebox, with 59k stars on GitHub.
| Compare | Project | Runs on my machine | Allowed at work | Paid services | Hardware | Setup | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HandyFree offline speech-to-text for Windows, macOS and Linux; press a shortcut, speak, and your words appear in any text field. | Yes | YesMIT | None required | No graphics card needed | Easy | 37k | |
| VoiceboxLocal desktop voice studio that clones voices, generates speech with 8 TTS engines, transcribes with Whisper and adds system-wide dictation. | Yes | ConditionsMIT | None required | No graphics card needed | Easy | 59k | |
| FluidVoiceOn-device voice dictation app for macOS that also records meetings (FluidMeet) with live captions, speaker labels and transcripts. | Yes | ConditionsGPL-3.0 | Optional only | See its page | Easy | 13k+203 this week | |
| HexLocal voice dictation for Mac, Windows and Linux; hold a key, speak, and it pastes. MIT, with Windows and Linux in beta. | Yes | ConditionsMIT | None required | See its page | Easy | 4.1k |
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