Dictator Offline Voice to Text

Talk to your device. No cloud.

Only for iPhone

Free

iPhone

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.

Ratings & Reviews

  • 4.0
    out of 5
    1 Ratings

Some slight UI tweaks, a new navigation bar... and the new Scratchpad for keeping longer notes!

Version 2026.6.1

The developer, Rob Gough, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

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    Information

    Seller
    • Rob Gough
    Size
    • 6.1 MB
    Category
    • Productivity
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    • © 2026 Rob Gough
  • Developer Website
  • Privacy Policy

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