Dictly Alternatives

Dictly is described as 'Turns speech into polished, structured text — instantly and entirely on your device. No servers. No data collection. No delay' and is a audio transcription tool in the audio & music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Dictly for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Web-based, Windows, Linux and Android apps. The best Dictly alternative is Handy STT, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Dictly are Vibe Transcribe, FUTO Voice Input, Voxtral and TypeWhisper.

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  1. AI Audio Kit icon
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    A straightforward macOS application that allows the user to use different Whisper services (OpenAI API, Runpod Faster Whisper) from your macOS desktop. You have the flexibility to use your own API key, ensuring that you only incur charges for the services you actively use.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. The Transcriber is a free and ad free, offline live audio transcriber that works straight out of the box. No additional downloads needed once the application is installed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  3. Whisper Mate icon
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    Batch transcribe audio files or movie files into text with OpenAI's Whisper AI Model. With an embed subtitles editor to preview the transcription result segment by segment. All transcribe operation is processing in local machine. Keep your privacy safe.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. Echosy icon
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    Private, on-device audio transcription for macOS. Your audio never leaves your Mac — no cloud uploads, no subscriptions, no data collection. Real-time ASR with Qwen3-ASR, MLX Whisper & Whisper, plus system-wide dictation, all 100% local.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. Supernormal combines a desktop notetaker with an AI agent to transform your meetings into finished deliverables. The desktop app captures your Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, or Slack conversations without a bot joining the call.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
     
  6. Transcript LOL is a transcription service that converts video, podcast, or meeting content into text, supporting over 1500 platforms without requiring downloads or uploads.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. Simple, hackable offline speech to text - using the VOSK-API.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Buzz Captions icon
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    Buzz Captions is an offline audio transcription and translation tool powered by OpenAI's Whisper model. It allows users to import audio and video files to generate transcripts in CSV, SRT, TXT and VTT formats.

    42 Buzz Captions alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  9. Mumble AI icon
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    Voice-first AI for meeting notes, voice notes, and dictation. 5× faster than typing. Just speak, and it's done.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    CMU Sphinx is a speaker-independent large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer released under BSD style license. It is also a collection of open source tools and resources that allows researchers and developers to build speech recognition systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Windows Speech Recognition makes using a keyboard and mouse optional. You can control your PC with your voice and dictate text instead.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Amphion icon
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    Amphion is a toolkit for Audio, Music, and Speech Generation. Its purpose is to support reproducible research and help junior researchers and engineers get started in the field of audio, music, and speech generation research and development.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Python
     
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