Free. Local. Powerful.

Press a key. Speak. Finished text appears at your cursor.

Download How it works

Speech recognition runs on your computer. Windows now, macOS and Linux next.

Ready Ctrl + Space Copy last Start meeting Open app Hide
Reply to Sam

Pressing the shortcut records, and the cleaned sentence is pasted into the window that had focus.

How dictation works

You control how much cleanup is applied to your dictation.

Remove ‘um’ and ‘uh’, correct supported spellings and vocabulary, and format without rewriting.

SoIthinkweshouldshipthebetaonFriday.Let'skeeptheoldinstallerarounduntilwe'resure.

Whichever you pick, the raw recognition is saved unchanged alongside it.

Meeting transcription.

Your microphone and your computer’s audio, captured together and transcribed.

The Meetings page listing transcribed recordings with their dates and durations.
  • Notes are assembled from sentences that were actually said.
  • Import a recording you already have and transcribe it.
  • Export to HTML, PDF, Markdown or plain text.

Local and private.

Everything is processed on your own computer.

  • Recognition and cleanup run offline.
  • No account. Nothing is uploaded.
  • An outside model is used only if you connect one yourself.
The Dictation page showing the text cleanup choice and the local cleanup model.

Install.

Builds are published as GitHub releases. Run the command to install, and again to update.

Windows

beta

Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit

Not published yet
PowerShell 
irm https://sonojot.com/install.ps1 | iex
winget 
winget install SonoJot.SonoJot

macOS

alpha

Apple silicon, macOS 14 and later

Not published yet
Terminal 
curl -fsSL https://sonojot.com/install.sh | sh
Homebrew 
brew install --cask sonojot

Linux

alpha

x86-64, AppImage and .deb

Not published yet
Shell 
curl -fsSL https://sonojot.com/install.sh | sh
Debian package 
curl -fsSLO https://github.com/Cody-Stevens/WindowsSTTApp/releases/latest/download/SonoJot_0.13.0_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./SonoJot_0.13.0_amd64.deb

Every release is listed on the releases page.

Disclaimer: I made SonoJot for myself and use it daily. It is free and MIT licensed: fork it, change it, keep it. It comes with no warranty. Reported problems may or may not be addressed, and the app will change as I see fit, without notice.