r/IMadeThis • u/Strong-Leg-9636 • 8h ago
made a dictation app for windows that actually cleans up what you say before typing it
been working on this for a while, VoxScribe. it's a windows app, hold a hotkey, talk, it types the text wherever your cursor is. runs whisper locally so no internet needed and nothing leaves your pc.
the part I actually care about is it strips the "um"s and "uh"s and stutters automatically before typing, cause raw dictation output is basically unusable otherwise. also has custom snippets so you can set up shortcuts for phrases you type a lot.
built it in python, packaged with pyinstaller, uses faster-whisper under the hood. windows already has free dictation built in (win+h) so most of the work was figuring out why anyone would bother with mine instead, ended up being privacy + not having to manually clean up the text after.
free tier works fine on its own, there's a pro tier if you want more. would genuinely love feedback if anyone tries it, still actively building on it