Dictation app
SnailText
by SnailText
An offline speech-to-text app for Mac and Windows that types dictation at the cursor in any app and also transcribes audio and video files.
- Mac
- 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.
Key figures
Every figure about SnailText
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
- SnailText: AI cleanup (Pro)2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- SnailText: custom dictionary (Pro)2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- SnailText, Free plan2026-10-261 1 = yes, 0 = no
- SnailText: free tier2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- SnailText: no training on audio2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
- SnailText: speech on device2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- SnailText: types into any app2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- SnailText: works offline2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
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