A companion tool · free · windows

DICTATEUR

Offline push-to-talk dictation for the whole operating system. Hold a hotkey, speak, release — the transcript lands wherever the cursor is.

OfflineHotkey drivenFree · MIT
dictateur · recording
— Recording —
Hold RIGHT CTRL to speak · release to transcribe
§ 01 · Why

Local dictation, without the subscription.

I · Offline

Nothing leaves the machine.

Faster-whisper runs locally. No cloud, no network dependency, no billing dashboard watching your words.

II · Anywhere

System-wide hotkey.

Works in any text field — browser, Word, terminal, chat. The transcript is typed where the cursor is.

III · Fast

Hold-to-talk latency.

Sub-second transcription on a modern laptop. GPU-accelerated where available, CPU-fine where not.

IV · Multilingual

Whisper's full language set.

Whisper-large-v3 handles ninety-nine languages. Switch per-session or let auto-detect decide.

V · Private

No telemetry, no cloud.

Your dictated thoughts are yours. No training on your voice, no transcript history on someone else's server.

VI · Free

MIT licensed, forever.

The straightforward alternative to Wispr Flow, superwhisper and friends. Fork it, audit it, ship it.

§ 02 · Comparison

Against the usual suspects.

CapabilityDictateurWispr FlowSuperwhisper
Runs offlineYesCloudYes
Free of chargeFree · MITSubscriptionPaid
Open sourceYesNoNo
Windows nativeYesYesmacOS only
System-wide hotkeyYesYesYes
Custom modelAny whisper.cppNoPreset