Dictation app
Flunkey
by Flunkey
A free, open-source voice tool for Windows that dictates into any app, answers spoken questions and rewrites selected text from spoken instructions.
- Windows
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.
Every figure about Flunkey
Each figure is a row of a research dataset. Open it for the exact words of its source or the exact request it was read from.
Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI
- Flunkey: AI rewrite (F10)2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Flunkey: audio kept on servers2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Flunkey: custom vocabulary2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Flunkey: free plan2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Flunkey: recordings used to train2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Flunkey: speech on device2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Flunkey: text to third-party AI2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Flunkey: types into any app2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
Other dictation apps
- AeriVoiceAeriVoice
- AInauten VoiceAInauten
- AmicalAmical
- Aqua VoiceAqua Voice, Inc.
- AriaTypejoe223
- BetterDictationBetterDictation
- BetterVoiceTarunTomar122
- BetterWisprBetterWispr
- BindersBinders
- BlitztextBlackboat
- BlurtAssemblyAI
- BossAIHyathi Technologies Private Limited
- BrainaBrainasoft
- CadenzaCadenza
- CapsWriter-OfflineHaujetZhao
- ChirpWhamp
- ChitchatBilella Works
- ChordVoxChordVox
- Cloudless VoiceSynthetic Exploration
- ClovyOpen Software Network
- CodictateEmil Lykke Grann
- ContextliErtiqah, LLC.
- CursorlessCursorless
- DettaFermion Research
- DictaFlowSmartBids.ai Corp.
- Dictation (dictation.io)Digital Inspiration
- Dictation DaddyDictation Daddy
- DictatoDictato
- DicturaDictura
- DictyDicty.io