# SPEACH

> Free, open-source, local-first dictation — hold a hotkey, speak, release, and your words drop into any app, transcribed on-device.

**Waitlist** — join from the product page: https://achron.org/products/speach

Tags: Dictation, Speech-to-text, Local-first, Open source, Desktop app

Talk. Don't type. Hold a global hotkey anywhere on your machine, speak, and
release — your words are transcribed right on your device and dropped into
whatever field has focus: a chat box, a code editor, an email, an LLM prompt.
Free, open source, and private by default.

## What it does

- **Hold-to-talk, anywhere** — press and hold your hotkey in any app, speak,
  release. The text lands in the focused field via clipboard-paste, with a
  keystroke-typing fallback for apps that refuse synthetic paste.
- **Transcribes files too** — drop in audio or video and export a clean
  transcript as `.txt`, `.srt`, or `.vtt`; translate non-English audio to
  English in one step.
- **Ready in five minutes** — a tiny Whisper model ships bundled, so the first
  transcription works offline immediately. No terminal, no Python, no
  model-wrangling — a guided first-run grants the two permissions it needs.
- **As accurate as you want** — optional beam-search decode, a custom-vocabulary
  field, a live caption while you speak, and an on-device (or bring-your-own-key
  cloud) AI proofread — every dial off by default.

## Private by architecture

The default engine runs whisper.cpp *in-process* inside a native Rust core — no
separate process, no network surface at all. Your audio never leaves the
machine; the cloud proofread is opt-in, BYO-key, and clearly disclosed. It's a
lightweight Tauri app, not a heavy Electron shell, so it idles quietly in your
tray all day.

## Availability

SPEACH runs today on macOS (Apple Silicon); Windows is built in code and
planned. It's free and open source. The public download isn't ready yet —
check back shortly.

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