Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac




OmniDictate is described as 'Free, open-source, real-time dictation for Windows. Runs locally (no cloud!), uses AI, and types directly into any application via a user-friendly GUI' and is a audio transcription tool in the audio & music category. There are more than 25 alternatives to OmniDictate for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Web-based, Windows, Linux and Self-Hosted apps. The best OmniDictate alternative is Vibe Transcribe, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like OmniDictate are Voxtral, Whisper, TranscribeX and EnviousWispr.




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.




Hello Transcribe is a private and secure speech to text transcriber that uses OpenAI Whisper and Whisper.cpp.






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...


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.
