# Dictator Offline Voice to Text

> Talk to your device. No cloud.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6772823676](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6772823676)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6772823676`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Rob Gough
- **Category:** Productivity
- **Rating:** 4.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 2026.6.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-25
- **First published:** 2026-06-01
- **Size:** 5.77 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dictator-offline-voice-to-text/id6772823676)
- **Website:** [https://dictator.robgough.net](https://dictator.robgough.net/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://dictator.robgough.net/privacy.html](https://dictator.robgough.net/privacy.html)

## Description

Dictator turns speech into text without sending audio anywhere.

Hold a button on the Dictator keyboard, talk, release — the result lands in
whichever app you were typing in. Transcription runs on-device using Parakeet,
a fast speech model that fits on Apple Silicon. Optional clean-up uses Apple
Intelligence to tidy filler words and add natural punctuation, also on-device.

— Two modes —

Dictate captures fresh speech and pastes it wherever you were typing.

Assist takes the text already in the field plus a spoken instruction and
transforms it: shorten, expand, translate, change tone, fix the grammar,
turn dot points into a paragraph. The original text returns with one tap of
undo.

— Privacy by design —

  • Audio never leaves your device. Inference is entirely local.
  • No account, no sign-in, no analytics.
  • The model is downloaded once from Hugging Face — that's the only
    network traffic Dictator initiates.
  • The keyboard extension communicates with the app via a private App Group
    on your device.

— Setup —

A four-step welcome guide gets you running: grant microphone access, download
the speech model (about 460 MB, one-time), install the Dictator keyboard,
enable Allow Full Access. Full Access is required so the keyboard can read
the text you're transforming and open the host app to record — both are
strictly on-device operations.

— Requirements —

  • iPhone with Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or
    any iPhone 16)
  • iOS 26 or later
  • Around 600 MB of free space for the speech model

— Open source —

Dictator is open source. Source code at github.com/robgough/dictator.

Made by Rob Gough.

## Rankings

- #921,167 — Overall

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