Orac Voice
Say it. Get clean text. Keep it private.
Private dictation was not optional.
My wife needed speech-to-text for work, but the sensitive information she handles ruled out subscription-based tools that send data to external servers. She needed something useful that could stay on her own computer.
A local pipeline, built around the way she works.
Using Claude Code, I paired whisper.cpp for on-device transcription with a lightweight Ollama model that restores punctuation, removes filler words and turns raw dictation into clean, usable text. I then designed a simple interface that anyone can configure in seconds.
Speak naturally. Get polished text. Keep control.
Orac Voice is now a free local-first app for macOS and Windows. It can be installed with Claude Code, Codex or directly from the terminal, and the default workflow keeps voice data on the user's machine.
See how Orac Voice works.
The finished experience is deliberately simple: hold a key, speak and release. Clean text appears wherever the cursor is, ready to send, edit or keep working with.
- Hold a key and speak
- Whisper transcribes locally
- Ollama cleans the text
- Clean copy appears at your cursor