Hold a hotkey. Talk. Clean text appears at your cursor in any app — email, docs, chat, code. Speech recognition and cleanup run entirely on your PC. No cloud. No account. No $15/month.
Free forever. 12 KB of readable Python you can audit yourself. Windows 10/11 + Python.
| Cloud dictation ($15/mo) | Flow Local | |
|---|---|---|
| Your audio | Streams to their servers | Never leaves your PC |
| Price | $180/year, forever | $0 |
| Works offline | No | Yes, fully |
| Filler-word cleanup | Yes | Yes (offline), incl. "scratch that" corrections |
| Custom dictionary | Paid tier | Free, one config file |
| Auditable code | No | Yes — it's yours |
The full tool. Unzip, pip install, run. README walks you through everything, including offline and AI-polish cleanup modes.
I remote in, install it, tune it to your hardware, load your custom dictionary, and you watch it work before we hang up. 30 minutes.
For law, medical, and confidentiality-bound teams: up to 10 machines, a per-practice dictionary, staff training, 90 days of support. Dictation that can't leak.
Yes. The software is free, no account, no trial clock. The paid options are my time, not the tool: white-glove setup ($97) or an office-wide private install ($497).
No. Recognition runs locally on an open Whisper model. Default cleanup is offline too. One optional mode sends transcript text (never audio) to an AI API — only if you turn it on.
Windows 10/11 and Python 3.10+. Five-minute setup, README included. GPU optional.
Purpose Built AI — a systems engineer's practice that rebuilds overpriced cloud tools as local software and builds custom AI systems for businesses. This site runs on the same stack.
Flow Local is a private dictation setup that keeps your words on your own machine, with no per-seat cloud. Tuned for legal work.
Dictation, video clips, meeting notes, and voiceover. The subscription tools, rebuilt to run on your machine. All free, all readable code, all yours.