I made Typd. It is a free, open-source dictation app that works for Windows and MacOS and runs entirely on your own computer. Instead of using two AI models like every single voice dictation app that currently exists, it uses a single model that gets your speech and outputs the finished text, with punctuation added, ums removed, and self-corrections applied. It types wherever your cursor is, so you can use it in every single app and platform on your PC, on your computer.
One of the most challenging things that we faced was setting up a fair comparison between cloud dictation apps like Wispr Flow and Typd. I set up a virtual audio cable to test both out, and you can see the comparison results at the website. I’m proud of beating Wispr Flow in the words that were gotten wrong. I’m proud of beating Wispr Flow on word accuracy, and I’m proud that I was able to build a fully local, offline, and lightweight solution for AI voice dictation.
To test it, you can download it at typd.mehmetdedeler.com/download for Windows and Mac. The initial download is around 130 MB, and the model download after that is about 1.5 GB, or 0.8 GB for the light model on more compute-intensive machines. It can work on a GPU and a CPU, so you don’t need a graphics processor to use it. You can click into any text box, tap right Alt, speak in whatever style you want, and when you tap right Alt again, the text with punctuation and formatting appears.
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