Dictation app
Talkhawk
by Talkhawk
A Windows dictation app where you hold a hotkey, speak, and cleaned-up text is pasted into whatever app you are using, with speech recognition running on the PC.
- Windows
Speech engine it runs
- NVIDIA Parakeet by NVIDIAParakeet TDT v3, English: 4.48%Parakeet TDT v3, No noise: 4.44%Parakeet TDT v3, 20 dB: 4.44%Parakeet TDT v3, 10 dB: 4.48%Parakeet TDT v3, 5 dB: 7.85%Parakeet TDT v3, 0 dB: 44.47%
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 Talkhawk
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.
How Long Voice Assistants Keep Your Recordings
- Talkhawk audio, in memory only2026-10Audio stays in memory until it is transcribed, then it is discarded. It is never written to disk and never sent anywhere.
- Talkhawk: last 50 dictations2026-10The text of your last 50 dictations ... Clear them any time in Settings, under History.
- Talkhawk: Polish text, third parties2026-10they store none of the text; Talkhawk's server does not store or log it either
Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI
- Talkhawk: AI rewrite2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Talkhawk: audio not on servers2026-100 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Talkhawk: custom words2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Talkhawk: free plan2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Talkhawk: speech on device2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Talkhawk: third-party AI2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Talkhawk: types into any app2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Talkhawk: voice editing2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
- Talkhawk: works offline2026-101 1 = yes, 0 = no
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