Dictator Offline Voice to Text
iOS app by Rob Gough. Productivity · Rob Gough
- Store rating
- 5 / 5
- Store rating count
- 1
- Download price
- Free to download
- In-app purchases
- Unknown
- Version
- 2026.6.1
- Listing last refreshed
- 2026-09-16
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Dictator turns speech into text without sending audio anywhere. Hold a button on the Dictator keyboard, talk, release — the result lands in whichever app you were typing in. Transcription runs on-device using Parakeet, a fast speech model that fits on Apple Silicon. Optional clean-up uses Apple Intelligence to tidy filler words and add natural punctuation, also on-device. — Two modes — Dictate captures fresh speech and pastes it wherever you were typing. Assist takes the text already in the field plus a spoken instruction and transforms it: shorten, expand, translate, change tone, fix the grammar, turn dot points into a paragraph. The original text returns with one tap of undo. — Privacy by design — • Audio never leaves your device. Inference is entirely local. • No account, no sign-in, no analytics. • The model is downloaded once from Hugging Face — that's the only network traffic Dictator initiates. • The keyboard extension communicates with the app via a private App Group on your device. — Setup — A four-step welcome guide gets you running: grant microphone access, download the speech model (about 460 MB, one-time), install the Dictator keyboard, enable Allow Full Access. Full Access is required so the keyboard can read the text you're transforming and open the host app to record — both are strictly on-device operations. — Requirements — • iPhone with Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or any iPhone 16) • iOS 26 or later • Around 600 MB of free space for the speech model — Open source — Dictator is open source. Source code at github.com/robgough/dictator. Made by Rob Gough.
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