Dictate brings open-source AI transcription to Windows

// 52d agoOPENSOURCE RELEASE

Dictate brings open-source AI transcription to Windows

Dictate is an open-source Windows dictation app that eliminates subscriptions by supporting local inference with Moonshine and NVIDIA models. It offers Bring-Your-Own-Key integrations for cloud providers like Groq and Deepgram, with future support planned for Linux and macOS.

// ANALYSIS

Dictate directly challenges the "subscription-everything" model of modern AI productivity tools by prioritizing local models and BYOK flexibility. It supports a wide array of local models for privacy-conscious users, while its Windows-first approach fills a gap in a market often dominated by macOS-centric AI "flow" tools.

// TAGS

dictatedictationvoice-to-textopen-sourcewindowslocal-aiwhispermoonshinenvidiagroqdeepgram

DISCOVERED

52d ago

2026-04-06

PUBLISHED

52d ago

2026-04-06

RELEVANCE

8/ 10

AUTHOR

siddhantparadox

// KEEP READING

More AI developer news from the feed

EXPLORE FULL FEED

UPDATE18m ago

Grok Build widens access, adds subagents

xAI’s Grok Build is an early-beta terminal coding agent with plan-review-approve flows, parallel subagents, worktree isolation, and support for plugins, hooks, skills, and MCP. The latest improvements make it feel less like a demo and more like xAI’s bid to compete seriously in the AI coding CLI race.

MODEL24m ago

Krea 2 lands on Replicate

Krea 2 is now available on Replicate, giving developers access to Krea's style-first image model outside the Krea app. It emphasizes aesthetic diversity, style control, and reference-driven creative workflows.

MODEL1h ago

ElevenLabs launches Music v2 for creators

ElevenLabs has released Music v2, a new music generation model that improves vocals, instrumentation, arrangement, and multilingual output. The model supports longer, section-by-section composition, inpainting to regenerate specific parts of a track, and more complex shifts within a song without losing coherence. It powers ElevenMusic and ElevenCreative now, with ElevenAPI access coming soon, and is trained on licensed data for commercial use.