Dictano is a dictation app for macOS that runs the speech recognition on the Mac itself. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works with the network off.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
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OmniDictate Alternatives
Apps similar to OmniDictate include Vibe Transcribe, which is free and open source. Other options are Voxtral, Whisper, TranscribeX and EnviousWispr. There's no shortage of Audio Transcription Tools like OmniDictate, with more than 25 alternatives for Mac, Windows, the web, self-hosting and iPhone.
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Transcribes video speech into subtitles using advanced AI models with multilingual translation, live subtitle editing and preview, robust quality checks, support for offline processing, customizable exports as SRT, ASS, or burnt-in, suitable for creators and professionals.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
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Kekoso is a menu bar app for macOS that turns speech into text without sending audio anywhere. Press a hotkey, talk, release, and the text is pasted into whatever field you were typing in.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
Kazakhstan
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Keeps each recording byte-for-byte, transcribes it through a service you choose, and lets you search inside everything you have.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- Docker
Spain
EU
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91 Earnote alternativesRecords lectures, meetings and calls and writes structured notes — transcription and AI run locally on your Mac. Free, open source, no account.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
Germany- EU
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Hello Transcribe is a private and secure speech to text transcriber that uses OpenAI Whisper and Whisper.cpp.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
South Africa
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
VibeVoice is a novel framework designed for generating expressive, long-form, multi-speaker conversational audio, such as podcasts, from text. It addresses significant challenges in traditional Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems, particularly in scalability, speaker consistency, and...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Python
- Self-Hosted
- Hugging Face
United States
Gazelle is a joint speech-language model by Tincans — for more details and prompt ideas, see our v0.2 announcement. This is an early research preview -- please temper expectations! Gazelle can take in text and audio as input (interchangeably) and generates text as output.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Online
