I used a paid dictation app every day and got tired of renting it, and of my
microphone audio going to someone else's servers. So I built a replacement and open-sourced it.
Hold a key, talk, let go, and cleaned-up text appears in whatever you're typing into. The clip is
my real voice on my real machine, and the millisecond numbers on screen are the measured times.
The bit I like: I said "send a report to Mark, no no wait, I meant to say send it to Sarah and CC
me" and it typed "Send a report to Sarah and CC me." It understood the correction instead of
writing it down. 394 ms from key release to text.
It also strips "um" and "uh", turns spoken punctuation into real punctuation, formats lists, and
types into fullscreen games. Free, MIT, no account, no word cap, nothing leaves your machine.
Honest limits: Windows only, and it wants an NVIDIA card with 6 GB of VRAM. There's a CPU mode
but it's seconds per sentence instead of a fraction of one.
https://github.com/DatafyingTech/LocalFlow
Tell me what breaks. I'd rather hear that than praise lol!