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BearFox Smart Dictation
Offline AI dictation that never leaves your PC
BearFox turns your voice into clean, ready-to-use text - fully offline. Hold a hotkey, speak, and tidy text is pasted into whatever app you're in. Or pick an audio file and get a readable transcript. Your words never leave your PC; nothing is sent to the cloud. An optional AI pass removes filler words and false starts, and fixes punctuation. It even runs on locked-down office PCs with no admin rights. Free on the Microsoft Store.
Hi Product Hunt! 👋
I built BearFox because I wanted to talk instead of type - but every voice-to-text tool I liked sent my voice off to someone's cloud. On a work PC, or for anything private, that's a non-starter.
So the goal became simple but stubborn: dictation that's genuinely good *and* never leaves your machine. Everything runs locally - the speech recognition, plus an optional AI clean-up that strips the 'ums', false starts and stray punctuation, so what lands on the page reads like you meant to write it.
The hardest part wasn't the transcription - it was making it work on real, locked-down office PCs: no admin rights, nothing to install, often no GPU and only 8GB of RAM. That constraint shaped everything. In the end I bundled every model inside the app, so it works the moment you open it: no setup, no account, no internet.
Along the way it grew from a scrappy push-to-talk script into a proper tray app - live dictation, file transcription, and GPU acceleration that quietly falls back to CPU when there isn't one.
It's free on the Microsoft Store. I'd genuinely love your feedback, especially on where it could be more useful in everyday work. 🦊
About BearFox Smart Dictation on Product Hunt
“Offline AI dictation that never leaves your PC”
BearFox Smart Dictation was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #90 on the daily leaderboard. BearFox turns your voice into clean, ready-to-use text - fully offline. Hold a hotkey, speak, and tidy text is pasted into whatever app you're in. Or pick an audio file and get a readable transcript. Your words never leave your PC; nothing is sent to the cloud. An optional AI pass removes filler words and false starts, and fixes punctuation. It even runs on locked-down office PCs with no admin rights. Free on the Microsoft Store.
On the analytics side, BearFox Smart Dictation competes within Privacy, Artificial Intelligence and Audio — topics that collectively have 486.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how BearFox Smart Dictation performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted BearFox Smart Dictation?
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