Dictation app

Dicty

by Dicty.io

A desktop dictation and transcription app for Mac and Windows that runs local Whisper models and can format the text with a language model of the user's choice.

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Speech engine it runs

Whisper by OpenAIWhisper large-v3-turbo, English: 3.92%Whisper large-v3-turbo, No noise: 3.78%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 20 dB: 4.2%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 10 dB: 5.51%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 5 dB: 13.92%Whisper large-v3-turbo, 0 dB: 66.09%

Word error rates from our own tests on public recordings: English in a quiet room and with background talk. Lower is better.

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Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI

Dicty: AI formatting2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
Dicty: audio kept by maker2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
Dicty: text to cloud AI2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
Dicty: custom vocabulary2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
Dicty: free plan2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
Dicty: recordings train models2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
Dicty: speech on device2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
Dicty: types into any app2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
Dicty: works offline2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no

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