Nerd Dictation Alternatives

Nerd Dictation is described as 'Simple, hackable offline speech to text - using the VOSK-API' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to Nerd Dictation for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and iPad apps. The best Nerd Dictation alternative is Vibe Transcribe, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Nerd Dictation are Handy STT, Voxtral, FUTO Voice Input and Whisper.

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  1. Vibe Transcribe icon

    Vibe Transcribe

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    Vibe is an auto transcription service that utilizes local language learning models (LLMs) or artificial intelligence to provide transcriptions for a wide range of languages. The service prioritizes user privacy by offering fully offline transcription, ensuring that no data ever...

    121 Vibe Transcribe alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • Vibe Transcribe is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Nerd Dictation.

    • Vibe Transcribe is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Nerd Dictation.

    • Vibe Transcribe is Free and Open SourceNerd Dictation is also Free and Open Source
    • Vibe Transcribe is Privacy focusedNerd Dictation is not according to our users
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    Voxtral

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    Voxtral models are state-of-the-art speech understanding models, which are available in two sizes — a 24B variant for production-scale applications and a 3B variant for local and edge deployments. Both versions are released under the Apache 2.0 license.

    76 Voxtral alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Hugging Face
    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
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    • Voxtral is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to Nerd Dictation.

    • Voxtral is Freemium and Open SourceNerd Dictation is Free and Open Source
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  6. FUTO Voice Input icon

    FUTO Voice Input

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    FUTO Voice Input is an application that lets you do speech-to-text on Android, integrating with third party keyboards or apps that use the generic speech-to-text APIs.

    99 FUTO Voice Input alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
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    • FUTO Voice Input is the most popular Android alternative to Nerd Dictation.

    • FUTO Voice Input is Free and Open SourceNerd Dictation is also Free and Open Source
    • FUTO Voice Input is Privacy focused and LightweightNerd Dictation is not according to our users
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    Whisper

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    Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large dataset of diverse audio and is also a multi-task model that can perform multilingual speech recognition as well as speech translation and language identification.

    126 Whisper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Moonshine AI icon

    Moonshine AI

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    Moonshine is a family of speech-to-text models optimized for fast and accurate automatic speech recognition (ASR) on resource-constrained devices. It is well-suited to real-time, on-device applications like live transcription and voice command recognition.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Self-Hosted
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    Transcription Pro

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    Transcribe audio and video files automagically with simple drag-and-drop — even in batches! Be amazed by remarkable accuracy and rapid results.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
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    • Transcription Pro is the most popular iPhone alternative to Nerd Dictation.

    • Transcription Pro is Freemium and ProprietaryNerd Dictation is Free and Open Source
    • Transcription Pro is Privacy focused and LightweightNerd Dictation is not according to our users
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    xcribe

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    Privacy-focused transcription tool for macOS. For free. No ads, no tracking, no data collection.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    Pipit

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    Provides instant, local voice-to-text transcription, searchable timeline for both dictated and clipboard text, fully private processing on macOS, adaptive learning for terminology, invisible activation, audio/video file transcription, and seamless pasting into apps.

    51 Pipit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  14. WhisperBuddy icon

    WhisperBuddy

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    Transcribe audio to text with AI precision, edit easily, and export in any format—all with complete privacy on your Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    Dictly

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    Dictly turns speech into polished, structured text — instantly and entirely on your device. No servers. No data collection. No delay.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    • Dictly is the most popular iPad alternative to Nerd Dictation.

    • Dictly is Freemium and ProprietaryNerd Dictation is Free and Open Source
    • Dictly is Lightweight and Privacy focusedNerd Dictation is not according to our users
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