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 Handy STT, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Nerd Dictation are Vibe Transcribe, Voxtral, FUTO Voice Input and TypeWhisper.

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  1. Scriberr icon
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    This is Scriberr, a self-hostable AI audio transcription app. Scriber uses the Whisper models from OpenAI, to transcribe audio files offline, on your hardware.

    59 Scriberr alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
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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.

    44 CMU Sphinx alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. 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
     
  4. 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
     
  5. Simon is an open source speech recognition program that can replace your mouse and keyboard. The system is designed to be as flexible as possible and will work with any language or dialect.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. TalkTastic icon
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    Write with your voice in any app on macOS. Faster and more accurate than ChatGPT, Google and OpenAI Whisper. Start talking. Stop typing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. Aiko icon
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    High-quality on-device transcription. Easily convert speech to text from meetings, lectures, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • visionOS
     
  8. Numen is free software voice control that gives people with limited use of their hands full control of their Linux machine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. BetterDictation is your personal scribe. You speak, and it will quickly and flawless transcribe into any app.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. Kaldi icon
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    Kaldi is a toolkit for speech recognition written in C++ and licensed under the Apache License v2.0. Kaldi is intended for use by speech recognition researchers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. SpeechFlow icon
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    Accurate speech-to-text API for all languages beyond just English.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  12. VoiceX icon
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    VoiceX turns your voice into clear, structured writing in seconds. Just speak your thoughts and get polished content instantly. No typing, no friction, just faster thinking into action.

    53 VoiceX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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