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Free voice dictation and an AI assistant for Windows, macOS, and Linux

Talk and it types, in any app. Ask and it answers. Start a conversation and talk it through. It also writes up your meetings. Free, open source, and local by default.

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What it does

You think faster than you type. SpeakoFlow lets you work with your voice instead, from any app, with a keyboard shortcut:

Dictate

Left Ctrl + Left Win

Hold the keys, talk, let go. What you said is typed at your cursor, in any app that takes text.

Ask

Left Ctrl + Left Alt

Select some text if you like, then ask out loud. Translate it, reply to it, explain it. Copy the answer, insert it, or replace the selection.

Converse

Left Ctrl + Left Alt + C

A hands-free conversation with the assistant. Talk a problem through and it answers out loud. Press the keys again to end it.

Windows defaults. The macOS and Linux keys are under Keyboard shortcuts, and you can change every one.

Speech is transcribed on your own computer unless you pick a cloud service. The assistant uses whichever model you choose: a built-in one that works offline, your own Ollama or LM Studio server, or a cloud provider with your own API key.

I built SpeakoFlow while studying alone for exams. I was paying for a dictation app that could hear me but couldn't help me, so I made one that does both.

Features

Dictation

Hold the keys, talk, and let go. Your words appear wherever the cursor is, and the recording pill can show them as you speak. Transcription runs on your graphics card or processor with a local model: Parakeet by default for English, Nemotron for 28 languages with automatic detection, Whisper for 99, and 69 speech models in the catalog altogether, which you can filter by language. If you'd rather use the cloud, ElevenLabs, Deepgram, and Amazon Transcribe stream text while you talk, and OpenAI, Groq, Mistral, Azure AI Speech, and OpenRouter work too.

• Undo. Cancelled a recording by accident? The pill offers Undo for a few seconds, and History keeps the recording so you can recover it later. A failed transcription offers Try again.
• Your words, spelled your way. Add names and jargon to the Dictionary, or write text replacements. On Windows it can learn the words you correct.
• Translate to English. Whisper, Canary, Granite Speech, and Voxtral models, and OpenAI or Groq in the cloud, can turn speech in another language into English text.
• Hold, tap, or go hands-free. Hold the keys while you talk, or switch to tap so one press starts and the next one stops, separately for dictation and the assistant. Holding to dictate and need longer? Press Space too, let go, and keep talking.

Ask

Select some text, or don't. Hold Left Ctrl + Left Alt and say what you want: "translate this to Spanish", "write a polite reply saying I can't make Thursday", "explain this". The answer streams into a card over the app you're in, and you can copy it, insert it at the cursor, or put it in place of the text you selected.

It can do more if you let it:

• Screen vision. Ask about the error in your terminal or the chart in your spreadsheet. It's off until you switch it on, and even then the model decides per question whether it needs to look. A screenshot it doesn't use never leaves your computer.
• Web search through Serper, Brave, Tavily, Exa, SerpAPI, or TinyFish.
• Reminders. "Remind me to send the invoice in twenty minutes." Reminders survive a restart and pop up without taking your keyboard.
• Profiles and memory. Give it different personas, each with its own reply length, and let it remember how you like to work. Memory is off by default, stays on your computer, and you can edit or erase it.

Conversation

Press Left Ctrl + Left Alt + C and talk. The assistant answers out loud, and you can cut in while it's speaking. Esc stops a reply without ending the conversation, and pressing the keys again ends it. Need to type something in the middle? Dictate as usual. The conversation waits while you do and picks up again afterwards.

Replies are spoken by a voice on your computer (Kokoro, Kitten, Pocket TTS, or Supertonic) or by a cloud voice from OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Deepgram, Cartesia, Google, Azure, and others.

Meetings beta

Press Start recording before a call. SpeakoFlow records your microphone and your computer's audio as two streams and transcribes them as people speak, so it always knows which words were yours. No bot joins the meeting, and it works with any meeting app. On Windows it can offer to record when it notices a call.

When the call ends it writes the notes, with a summary, decisions, and next steps with owners, using a template you pick (General, Standup, One-on-one, Interview, or Action items). Other voices are labelled Speaker 1, Speaker 2, and so on. Afterwards you can ask questions about the meeting, or choose Discuss this meeting to talk it over in a conversation.

On macOS, recording the other side of a call needs a virtual audio device such as BlackHole. See Troubleshooting.

AI cleanup

SpeakoFlow Mini is a small model we trained for one job: turning what you said into clean text. It removes filler words, fixes grammar and punctuation, and follows spoken edits, so "scratch that" or "actually, eleven" does what you meant instead of being typed out. It's a 795 MB download, runs on your computer, and handles English for now. Any other local or cloud model can do the job instead, including Apple Intelligence on Apple silicon Macs.

Cleanup is off until you turn it on. It then gets its own shortcut (the dictation keys plus Shift) or runs on every dictation. On top of it you can add a writing style: Professional, Friendly, Concise, Formal, Casual, or one you write yourself.

Also in the app

• Insights. Words dictated, your speaking speed, time saved compared with typing at 40 words a minute, questions asked and time on calls with the assistant, meetings recorded, and six months of activity with streaks. Share turns it into a set of cards, one insight each, to copy, save, post to X or LinkedIn, or send through your system's share sheet, in square, story or wide; they are made on your computer and nothing is uploaded.
• History. Your dictations, questions, and conversations. Play a recording back, transcribe it again, recover a dismissed one, or continue a chat as a conversation. Old recordings can delete themselves after a set number, days, or months.
• Models you already have. Add a .gguf or Whisper .bin file, or link a folder and every model in it shows up. Nothing is copied or moved. Downloads that do happen fetch eight chunks at once and resume where they stopped.
• Generate with Flow. Start a dictation with "Hey Flow" and describe what you want written, and the finished text is pasted instead of your words. It's off by default, under Settings → Dictation.
• 20 interface languages.

Each feature has its own page in the documentation.

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