Talkies

Private, on-device dictation for macOS, Windows, Linux, and Android. Talkies turns speech into text with local speech recognition and optional local transcript cleanup. After you download the models you choose, recording, transcription, cleanup, and insertion run on your device. Talkies has no account, subscription, or hosted transcription service.

Talkies is free and open source under the MIT License. Model weights and third-party libraries keep their own licenses; review their notices before redistributing a build.

Download Talkies

Get the latest tested desktop builds from GitHub Releases. The current latest channel is a prerelease. Read the first-run guide before downloading models or troubleshooting microphone, permission, and insertion issues.

Platform	Build	Status
macOS	Native Swift and SwiftUI; WhisperKit; Apple Silicon	Active
Windows	Native .NET WPF; Whisper.net	Active
Linux	Native Zig app; whisper.cpp; X11 and Wayland	Active; still maturing
Android	Native Kotlin app; local dictation, voice input method, and SSH companion with Herdr/cmux agent inbox	Early access; download the signed APK

On first use, choose and download the local models you need. Model downloads are explicit and integrity-checked. Android downloads speech models separately and stores SSH host-key trust locally; the remote companion does not save passwords. See the platform guides for requirements and details.

Use Talkies or build it

• macOS guide · Windows guide · Linux guide · Android guide
• Build and test reference for platform commands and toolchains
• Contributing guide for issues, pull requests, and review expectations
• Documentation index for product, architecture, privacy, and release docs
• Open issues for planned and known work
• Latest releases for tested packages

Repository layout

mac/                 Native macOS app and Swift packages
windows/             Native Windows app and tests
linux/               Native Linux app and Zig build
mobile/android/      Native Kotlin Android app
archive/             Historical prototypes and superseded planning
docs/                Product, architecture, platform, and release guidance
.github/             CI, release automation, issue forms, and templates

The public website is maintained separately on the website branch and published by GitHub Pages from gh-pages. The deprecated Flutter prototype has moved to archive/flutter-prototype; it is not a supported build target.

Project status

GitHub Issues and milestones are the canonical work queue; docs/ROADMAP.md links to the active milestones instead of maintaining a second backlog. See the feature-gap analysis for current platform capabilities and known gaps.