SayIt
Open-source Windows voice typing with local, cloud-API or self-hosted recognition and editable AI cleanup.
SayIt is an AGPL-3.0 voice typing app for Windows built with Tauri, React and Rust. Press the shortcut (press-again by default, with a separate hold-to-talk shortcut), speak, and the cleaned-up text is inserted at the cursor in any app. It runs in three modes: local recognition with seven bundled GGUF models and GPU acceleration, cloud API mode using your own keys for Doubao, Qwen, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, MiMo, Groq Whisper or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, or server mode against a SayIt backend you deploy with Docker. Every AI cleanup preset is editable and per-app rules switch presets automatically. Optional context awareness reads text near the cursor and, with text selected, turns speech into an editing instruction such as translate or rewrite; password fields are skipped. Hotwords bias recognition on Doubao, Qwen, server mode and local Qwen3-ASR.
Pros
- Free and AGPL-3.0; runs fully local with bundled GGUF models or against your own API keys
- Editable cleanup prompts with per-app rules, hotwords, overlay live captions and local searchable history
- Self-hostable FastAPI backend with Docker Compose for teams
Cons
- Windows only; there is no macOS or Linux build
- Cloud recognition requires your own provider keys and is billed by the provider
- Live captions while speaking only work with the streaming Doubao and Qwen providers
- Platforms
- Windows
- Speech processing
- Hybrid
- Works offline
- Yes
- Languages
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Open source
- Free tier
- Yes
Features
- Yes Works in any app
- Yes Real-time transcription
- Yes Auto punctuation
- Yes AI cleanup
- Yes Custom vocabulary
- No Voice commands
- Yes Push to talk
- No Auto language detection
- Yes Translation
- No File transcription
- No Meeting notes
- Yes Multilingual interface
- Yes History
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Last verified 2026-09-22