Show HN: Recitey, a local Whisper dictation app for Windows (no word caps)

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Recitey | Dictate like you write. Only faster.<br>Recitey is now in early access.Download the beta

Voice writing for Windows and macOS

Speak the rough version. Get back the sentence you wish you'd typed.

Runs on your machine. Polished in under two seconds. Free on Windows and macOS.

Download for WindowsSee how it works →

Watch the demo · 46 sec · with soundFullscreen

Free. Private. Works on most Windows and macOS (Apple Silicon) machines. Runs offline·~3 GB after first launch<br>Audio stays on your device.Free tier is fully offline.

The three modes<br>From raw voice to polished text.<br>Press your hotkey, speak, paste. Choose how much help you want.<br>L Ctrl+L Alt→Speak→✓Pasted at your cursor

Fast<br>Direct transcription in under one second. No cloud step, no delay. Pure speed for quick notes.<br>“Testing again, it seems like it's not moving at all.”

~700ms

Cleanup<br>Removes filler words, fixes punctuation and grammar. Your words, just cleaner.<br>um so basically we need to like fix the config<br>“We need to fix the config.”

~2s

Rewrite<br>Better word choice and clearer structure, still in your own voice. Doesn't just clean up.<br>yeah so the deployment is kind of slow we need it faster<br>“We should review the deployment pipeline.”

~2.5s

The actual product<br>This is what you'll see.<br>The strip records. The sidebar lets you switch modes without opening anything. Watch each mode in action.

#Slack<br>Recitey HQ<br>Channels<br># general<br># team-lounge<br># deploy<br># design<br>Direct messages<br>alex<br>sarah<br>mike<br>alex 2:11 PM<br>can you give the Q3 deck a quick read before 5?

MGmail · New message<br>Tosarah@example.com<br>Subject(empty)

Send×

recitey-project - Visual Studio Code<br>Tab 1Tab 2Tab 3<br>EXPLORER<br>src<br>auth<br>ui<br>api

main·Spaces: 2·Ready

≡Notes · Memo

BIU¶≡↶↷

Mic

FastCleanRewrite

Recording<br>0:02<br>→Slack<br>Cleanup

The strip lives at the bottom of your screen while you're recording.

Mic

Fast<br>Clean<br>Rewrite

Docked at the edge while Recitey is running.

SettingsDictionaryHistory

Recitey · Settings · Style<br>Style<br>Sound like you.<br>A baseline tone, optional writing samples to learn your voice, and hard rules that always apply.

Preset tone<br>Sets the baseline tone when no per-app rule applies.

Auto<br>Use per-app tone

Casual<br>Conversational

Professional<br>Full sentences

Technical<br>Preserves jargon

Writing samples Pro<br>Paste short examples of your writing so transcripts sound like you.

Hard rules<br>Applied on every dictation, on top of samples and preset.

Recitey · Settings · Dictionary<br>Dictionary<br>Your terms.<br>Words and names Recitey should always spell your way. Auto-learned terms appear here too.

Add term<br>Term (e.g., Anthropic)Pronunciation (optional)GeneralAdd

Terms · 386Filter terms…<br>ReciteyBrandRemove<br>AnthropicBrandAutoRemove<br>SlackBrandRemove<br>SørenNamesRemove

Recitey · Settings · History<br>History<br>What you've said.<br>Every dictation kept locally on your machine. Filter by app, by date, or by word.

Search transcriptions…All appsAny timeClear all<br>Transcriptions · 200<br>It would be good if you continue scrolling on this screen. For instance, take a word, press the fix word button, and illustrate how that would look.<br>2h agoClaudeEN4.7s<br>Wrong word (optional)Correct spellingCancelSave

@alex got a sec? Quick question about Saturday's plans before I head out.<br>2h agoSlackEN4.1sFix a word

Under the hood<br>Fast. Private. Runs on your machine.

The proof<br>Built for speed<br>Cursor still blinking.<br>Runs on your machine. Polishes a sentence in under two seconds, even when it is rewriting your tone from the ground up.

Time to polished sentence42 word email<br>Typed by hand42.0s<br>Recitey · Rewrite2.4s<br>Recitey · Cleanup1.8s

Privacy<br>Your voice stays on your machine.

Mic<br>audio

↓→

Your machine<br>local Whisper

↓→

Your cursor<br>text

On the free tier, transcription happens on your machine. Whisper turns your voice into text without sending audio anywhere, and it works fully offline. Close your laptop, fly to Tokyo, dictate the whole flight on airplane mode. Same product.<br>Pro adds optional cloud modes for speed. Cloud rewrite sends only the rough text to Anthropic Claude Haiku for a faster polish. Cloud transcription, if you turn it on, sends your audio for faster results. Anthropic does not train on API data. Keep both off and nothing leaves your machine. You decide what crosses the wire.

Lands cleanly in<br>SlackGmailVS CodeNotionWordFigmaLinear<br>Anywhere you have a cursor.

Why Recitey<br>Not a dictation tool. A writing tool.

Most writing tools assume you start with a blank page and a clear head. Most days, neither is true.

You explained it perfectly on the call. Then you sit down to write the follow-up and the words refuse to come.<br>Familiar moments. The five-line Slack reply that took fifteen minutes. The PRD section still rough on Friday because you wrote it on Monday and never had time to come back. The code comment that says TODO: explain six months later.<br>Recitey starts at the moment you actually have the thought.

Press a key. Talk. The polished version appears at your cursor.Not a...

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