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SpeakoFlow
Free, MIT-licensed voice typing, voice assistant and meeting recorder for Windows, Mac and Linux, local by default with optional cloud keys.
v2.2.0 released 2026-10-21; last push 2026-10-25 (gh api). (checked 2026-10-25)
In Voice dictation apps
Where it stands apart
- How is it mainly sustained? individual side project, no revenue (24% of 21 others)
- Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? NVIDIA Parakeet models (17% of 18 others)
- Where does it run? several desktop systems (24% of 21 others)
What it shares with most of the community
- Is it actively maintained? active (100% of 21 others)
- Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? yes (57% of 21 others)
- Do you need an account to use it? no account (68% of 19 others)
- Who is it for? non-developers (76% of 21 others)
- Where does speech recognition happen by default? on your device by default (65% of 20 others)
- Which open speech models can it run on your device? several model families (e.g. Whisper and Parakeet) (53% of 17 others)
Nearest neighbors
- Handy 80% of 15 shared answers match
- BetterWispr 73% of 15 shared answers match
- Sayso 73% of 15 shared answers match
Every answer
| Question | Answer | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Is it actively maintained? | active | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is the main thing licensed? | permissive open source (MIT/Apache/BSD) | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is it mainly sustained? | stands apart individual side project, no revenue | source 2026-10-26 |
| Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? | yes | source 2026-10-26 |
| Do you need an account to use it? | no account | source 2026-10-26 |
| Who is it for? | non-developers | source 2026-10-26 |
| Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? | stands apart NVIDIA Parakeet models 'Parakeet by default for English'. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Where does speech recognition happen by default? | on your device by default | source 2026-10-26 |
| Which open speech models can it run on your device? | several model families (e.g. Whisper and Parakeet) | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does it use an AI model to clean up or rewrite your dictated text, and where does that run? | AI rewrite on device or in the cloud, your choice | source 2026-10-26 |
| If you use cloud speech or AI, how is it paid for? | only with your own API key (you pay the provider) | source 2026-10-26 |
| What is the main way users pay the maker? | nothing 'No paid plan, no trial, no word cap, and no account.' | source 2026-10-26 |
| Where does it run? | stands apart several desktop systems | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does it also record meetings or calls? | yes | source 2026-10-26 |
| Is 'your voice never leaves your device' the headline promise? | one of several selling points | source 2026-10-26 |
Sources
This page was derived from:
- GitHub · github.com/AbhishekBarali/SpeakoFlow · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · www.speakoflow.com/ · collected 2026-10-26
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