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Freestyle retweeted
I speak 150 words a minute. I type 60.
So for the past week I've been using @FreestyleVoice voice dictation instead of typing.
Result: 4,000+ words captured. Ideas, task lists, debug notes — nothing lost.
And it's 100% open source 👇
github.com/freestylevoice/fr…
Chart 4x faster than typing into an EHR. HIPAA ready with zero data retention. Available on Windows, Mac, and Linux!
freestylevoice.com/healthcar…
Sharing how we built an effective voice dictation pipeline.
Works incredibly well on capturing terminology devs use. Runs at ~600ms latency, on par with Wispr Flow.
xitter.cf/mattt8p/status/2071597…
Open source Wispr Flow means you can build cool extensions on top of it. And get full customizability.
Been voice pilled lately. Sharing a couple of ways to use Claude Code + voice dictation to prompt faster!
Freestyle retweeted
Two weeks into building Freestyle, @MathurAditya7 and I learned a ton about building in voice.
For context, we've been working on an oss alternative to Wispr Flow. Thought it was going to be a cakewalk, but there are some technical things that are really challenging.
I wrote an article on how we built the floating pill thing.
1️⃣ The pill isn't part of the app. It's its own transparent, non-focusable Electron window that floats above everything. That way it doesn't steal your cursor when dictating.
2️⃣ To get the waveform effect, we use getUserMedia API and attach a Web Audio analyser. Split the results of analyzer into 14 bars rendered by frequency intensity.
Check out the article!
freestylevoice.com/blog/floa…
The current status of Freestyle...
"Is PostHog down" ➡️ "Is post-hug down."
1.12s inference
Yeah we have a long way to go 😂
Excited to announce that we're launching Freestyle!
Freestyle is the dictation app that converts your voice into text. Hold down a hotkey, talk, and clean text will appear wherever your cursor is. Speak 4X faster than you type.
Freestyle is free, open source, and local first, ensuring your dictations are private and never leaves your device.
A couple of highlight features:
1️⃣ Transcription post-processing: grammer and punctuation cleanup via post-processing. No more "um, oh, but".
2️⃣ Choose your own models, cloud or local on-device
3️⃣ Dictionary: custom phrase replacements applied after transcription. (ex. "type script" → TypeScript).
Try it out today!
freestylevoice.com/
Lately, speech-to-text voice dictation apps like
@WisprFlow have taken the world by storm. Credit where it's due, it's a genuinely polished product. Low latency, the post-processing is great, the product feels premium. It’s changed how we do work.
But a couple things didn't sit right with me. You're paying $12 a month for it. Every sound you make, every word you say and every transcription passes through their servers. It’s a standing risk to your privacy.
There's no reason your private thoughts ever have to leave your device. Plenty of open-source dictation tools already exist, but none of them feel as polished as the paid apps, and that gap is what we want to close.
Voice dictation is a commodity and should be free and open source.
It's an early preview with lots to build, so we'd genuinely love contributors. Freestyle is a technically challenging and ridiculously fun project to work on. We’re looking to grow our community.
If this sounds interesting, come build with us!
github.com/freestyle-voice/f…
