App for Windows

Local Flow

Hold a key, talk, and clean text lands where you type. All on your PC.

WorkingA personal tool, not an installer yet.

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By the numbers

Real counts

162Tests passed, 0 failed
8Looks for the recording bubble
F9Default key. Tap it twice for hands-free
5,000About this many lines of Python
2.5sAdded by the optional polish, per dictation
0Cloud services used

What it does

In plain words

Many dictation tools send your voice to a cloud service. Local Flow turns speech into text on your own computer, then tidies it so it reads well. It has no main window. It waits in the background for your key.

Hold, talk, let go
Hold F9, speak, then let go. The text is pasted into the app you are using. Tap F9 twice for hands-free mode.
Speech to text on your PC
It uses faster-whisper on your own computer. Your voice does not go to a cloud service.
Cleans it up
It removes filler words like um and repeated words. Spoken numbers become digits, so twenty five becomes 25.
An optional second pass
A local Ollama model can fix self-corrections. Say tomorrow actually Friday and you get Friday. If the model is off, it still pastes the cleaned text.
Your own words
A personal dictionary, word replacements, and snippets. Say a trigger and get saved text.
Fits the text around it
It matches capital letters, spacing and the final period to your cursor. It leaves terminals alone.
Learns from your fixes
Correct a name after it pastes, and Local Flow can add that name to your dictionary.
Your clipboard is safe
It saves and restores what you had copied, and keeps dictations out of Windows clipboard history.
A small bubble
A bubble at the bottom of the screen shows while you record. It comes in 8 looks.
Easy to back out
Press Esc while recording to cancel. Press Shift+Alt+Z to paste the last one again.

See it work

5 real screens

A small rounded bubble with a pink and teal wave on a dark screen. — 1 / 5The default aurora bubble at the bottom of the screen, wave moving.

The bubble pictures show the real bubble, made with a test tone instead of a voice, and enlarged. The two terminal pictures are real output from the app, on demo data. Local Flow has no main window to show.

A purple and blue glass-look bubble with a white wave line. — The glass bubble style.

A dark bubble with a glowing cyan wave line. — The neon bubble style.

A terminal list of five dictations, each showing what was heard and the cleaned result. — Dictation history, with the raw words next to the final text.

A terminal showing "um so I want to I want to book phase one for twenty five people" turned into "So I want to book phase 1 for 25 people at ten thirty." — The clean command fixing a messy sentence.

How it works

4 steps

1
Start Local Flow. It loads the speech model and waits.
2
Click into any text box. Hold F9 and speak, then let go.
3
Local Flow turns your voice into text, cleans it, and fits it to the text around your cursor.
4
The text is pasted for you. Press Esc while recording to cancel.