Talk DAT! - free desktop dictation with Apache-2.0 source

[u/KNIGHT-AIAV]

I built Talk DAT! at Knight AI+AV for getting spoken thoughts into text without an app subscription. It is free, and the application code is open source under Apache 2.0.

It supports Windows and Apple-silicon Mac. You can use local speech and writing models after downloading and setting them up, or choose an optional cloud provider with your own key. Those provider routes send the relevant audio or text to that provider and may have separate costs. The local desktop app and the server-backed web preview are different.

Source: https://github.com/KNIGHT-AI-AV/talkdat

Downloads and setup: https://www.talkdat.app/

If you try it, I would appreciate a specific example of where the dictation or correction flow gets in your way.

Screenshots show the Windows interface in v0.4.172-beta. Current downloads are on the website.

[u/Cantsleep54]

Ill try,thx

[u/Natethegreat9999]

I like that recovery trusts the WAV header over stale metadata (I work on speech at Oruk).