Type at the speed you speak, without leaving your machine.
Localvox is an open-source dictation app that transcribes your voice entirely on-device. Hold a hotkey, speak, and the text appears wherever you're typing.
Three steps. No setup between them.
No accounts, no window switching, no waiting for a server to respond.
Hold your hotkey
Press and hold anywhere on your desktop — no need to click into Localvox first.
Speak naturally
A speech model running locally on your machine transcribes what you say, in real time.
Release, and it's typed
The text appears exactly where your cursor is — in a browser, editor, terminal, anywhere.
Nothing you say ever leaves this computer.
Localvox downloads a speech model once, then runs entirely offline. There's no account to create, no server in the loop, and no internet connection required to use it day to day — your voice and your words stay exactly where you typed them.
The whole project is open source, so you don't have to take that on faith.
Built to get out of your way.
The details that make dictation feel reliable rather than approximate.
Teach it your words
Add names, acronyms, or jargon it tends to mishear, and Localvox will recognize them correctly from then on.
Hardware-aware by default
Localvox checks your CPU, RAM, and GPU on first launch and picks a speech model sized for your machine — no manual configuration.
Rebindable hotkey
Set the push-to-talk combination that fits how you already work.
Works in any app
If you can type there, you can dictate there — no per-app integration required.
Free and open source
Licensed under MIT. Read the code, change it, or contribute to it.
Get Localvox for Linux
Available today on Linux. macOS and Windows builds are in progress.