Voice dictation · Windows · Local & free

Speak.It's written.

Transcribing

Svara floats over any app and writes down what you say, the instant you say it, on your own GPU. Nothing ever leaves your machine.

Theme
0bytes uploaded
~1sspoken to written
90+languages
100%on your machine
Live meters01 / 08

stringswoven strings · one of eight ways Svara draws your voice

The whole app

Three moves, and your voice is on the page.

01

Double-tap Right Alt

The pill appears and Svara starts listening. No window to find, no button to hunt for.

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02

Just talk

Words are written as you speak, punctuation and filler cleaned up on the fly. Raise your voice and it writes in caps.

~1s spoken to written
03

Tap to finish

The text lands at your cursor in whatever app you are using. Slack, VS Code, a browser, a terminal.

Works everywhere
Make it yours

Every colour recolors everything.

Capabilities

Everything it does.

01

Runs on your own machine

Audio is captured, written, and discarded locally. It cannot reach a server, because there is no server. Nothing to upload, ever.

02

Instant on your GPU

faster-whisper on CTranslate2, large-v3-turbo at int8 in ~1.5 GB of VRAM. Roughly a second from spoken to written.

03

Ninety-plus languages

Dictate in any language Whisper understands, or let it auto-detect what you speak each time. Not just English.

04

Speak-to-translate

Flip one switch and talk in any language: Svara writes clean English at your cursor. Your Spanish, its English.

05

Any Whisper model

From tiny to distil-large-v3 to large-v3-turbo. Trade speed for accuracy to fit whatever GPU you have.

06

Shout to CAPITALISE

Raise your voice on a word and it lands IN CAPS. Loudness-aware and shout-proof, so only real emphasis counts.

07

Cleaned up as you talk

Automatic punctuation, filler removal (um, uh), and self-corrections on the fly. Optional local-LLM polish via Ollama, still offline.

08

Writes into every app

System-wide injection places your words at the cursor anywhere you can type: Slack, VS Code, browsers, terminals.

09

Eight meters, your theme

Eight live visualizers and pop-culture themes: Matrix, Cyberpunk, Sakura, Evangelion, Saiyan, Vaporwave, and clean minimal.

10

It moves out of your way

The pill reads the text caret of the app you are in and slides aside the instant it would cover what you are typing, easing back when the coast is clear. Works even in browsers and Electron apps.

11

Never fights your typing

A poll-only hotkey watches one key with no global keyboard hook, so it never adds input lag. Lives in the tray and restarts itself if it ever hiccups.

12

Free and open source

No account, no subscription, no telemetry on your voice. The whole thing is yours to read, fork, and build.

Get Svara

Speak it.
Ship it. Free.

One 110 MB download that just runs. No installer, no unzip, no GPU required. Works on any Windows 10 or 11 PC; the model downloads once, then it runs fully offline.

~110 MB · Windows 10/11 · download and run · have an NVIDIA GPU? get the GPU pack ↗