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Dictiq

Dictation for Windows that keeps your words on your machine.

development Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit)

Free in English. The rest is a one-time unlock.

What it does

Dictiq turns speech into text anywhere you can type, and runs locally by default. English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Urdu and Hindi. English is free. Try everything for seven days, once, then keep the rest for about the price of a pizza.

Press a hotkey and speak

Dictate into any app you can type in.

On-device by default

No backend server, no user database, no account, no login. Your speech is transcribed and cleaned on your machine.

Languages

English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Urdu and Hindi. Whatever Dictiq transcribes is inserted correctly into the app you are writing in: right-to-left text stays right to left, and a sentence mixing Urdu and English keeps its direction on both halves. English is free; the unlock adds the rest.

No subscription, no telemetry

No account, no login, and no telemetry, ever.

Dictiq
The Dictiq settings window, dark theme: a custom-word correction example, and the About panel showing the local-only data promise in the product's own words.

Privacy

What it collects: Nothing. What leaves your machine: Nothing you dictate, unless you switch on your own endpoint. That is off by default and part of the one-time unlock: you supply the address and the key, and Dictiq then sends your text there and nowhere else, and keeps no copy of it. The only other network use is downloading the language models you choose and Microsoft Store licence validation.

Read the full Dictiq privacy page

What it costs

Free in English. The rest is a one-time unlock.

Pricing is set at release. It will be a one-time price, not a subscription.

Questions or problems: support@hardboundstudio.com. A person reads every message.