Press, speak, done
Press a button, speak, and your text is pasted into any app.
Any language. Any application. Anytime.
Two minutes, start to finish: press the shortcut, say the sentence, and watch the text land in any application.
Writes what you meant, not what you said.

Codictate adapts to your custom vocabulary, fixing near-misses and expanding shortcuts automatically.
Every model runs fully on-device. Accuracy is measured by Word Error Rate (WER) and does not include punctuation yet. Speed and accuracy are rated 1 to 10.
Ratings run 1 to 10, higher is better. Accuracy is the rating across every benchmark language; a model that targets one language shows its rating for that language, marked with the language code.
| Large V3 Turbo q5_0 | All languages | No | 7/10 | 9/10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large V3 q5_0 | All languages | Yes | 6/10 | 9/10 |
| Parakeet TDT v3 | 25 languages | No | 10/10 | 9/10 |
| Small q5_1 | All languages | Yes | 9/10 | 7/10 |
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Parakeet for speed. Large V3 q5_0 for accuracy. Turbo q5_0 if you switch between languages. We break it down.
Full benchmark details
In the menu bar or the Dock, following your system theme, one keystroke from wherever your cursor already is.


Press a button, speak, and your text is pasted into any app.
Local, private dictation on Mac and Windows. No account, no cloud, no data collection.
A free dictation tool for Mac and Windows, open source under Apache 2.0.
Grab a build for Mac or Windows, try easy dictation, and say hello on GitHub if something breaks. Contributions are welcome under Apache 2.0.