Dictee v1.2.0 — Push-to-talk voice dictation with KDE Plasma 6 plasmoid, 4 ASR backends, 100% offline

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Hi all !

dictee is a push-to-talk voice dictation tool for Linux. Press a shortcut, speak, release — text is typed instantly. Everything runs locally, no cloud needed.

v1.2.0 highlights:

  • 4 ASR backends switchable on the fly: Parakeet-TDT (25 langs), Canary-1B (GPU), Vosk (lightweight),
    faster-whisper (99 langs)
  • KDE Plasma 6 plasmoid with 5 real-time audio animation styles + tray icon for other DEs
  • Post-processing pipeline: voice commands (“new line”, “comma”), dictionary, continuation, elisions, number
    conversion, LLM correction via Ollama
  • Translation: Google, Bing, LibreTranslate, Ollama
  • First-run setup wizard
  • Packages: .deb, .rpm, .plasmoid, PKGBUILD, tar.gz
  • 6 UI languages: fr, de, es, it, pt, uk

Open source, GPL-3.0.

GitHub: GitHub - rcspam/dictee: Push-to-talk voice dictation for Linux — 100% local, multilingual (25+ languages), with speaker diarization. Qt frontend, Rust backend on NVIDIA Parakeet via ONNX Runtime. KDE Plasmoid integred. · GitHub
Release: Release v1.2.0 · rcspam/dictee · GitHub

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Fantastic, I’ve been looking for something like this.

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I hope this works for you. As for my own testing, it has only been on my machine, so I hope that if you use it, you’ll let me know if it works for you.

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