sotto
Push-to-talk dictation for Windows — hold a key, speak, release, and clean text lands at the cursor without the audio ever leaving the machine.
Dictation on a desktop usually means a cloud service: the microphone opens, the audio travels, and somewhere else a transcript comes back. For most text that trade is invisible; for some of it, it isn’t acceptable.
sotto takes the other route. Speech becomes text on the machine, and never leaves it — no cloud, no telemetry, no account watching over the microphone.
Transcription runs on whisper.cpp on the user’s own hardware, and the optional cleanup pass runs on a local model, equally offline. Even the licence key is verified offline; there is no activation server to phone.
The interaction is deliberately small: hold a key, speak, release. English and Dutch each get their own key, spoken commands like “new line” handle formatting without touching the keyboard, and the text lands wherever the cursor is, in any application.
audio is transcribed on the machine — no cloud, no telemetry, no activation server
Built for Windows 10/11: clean text in roughly two seconds, with a personal dictionary and snippets for the words the model wouldn’t otherwise know.
The privacy claim is structural rather than contractual — there is no server involved, so there is nothing to trust.