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Show HN: Freestyle – Wispr Flow Alternative that respects privacy

Freestyle, a free and open-source dictation app that converts voice to text locally, launched as a privacy-focused alternative to Wispr Flow. The app supports multiple AI providers and runs on-device models to ensure dictations never leave the user's device.

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Show HN: Freestyle – Wispr Flow Alternative that respects privacy
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Freestyle is the dictation app that converts your voice into text. Hold down a hotkey, talk, and clean text will appear wherever your cursor is. Speak 4X faster than you type.

Freestyle is free, open source, and local-first. Run a local model and your dictations never leave your device, or bring your own API key when you'd rather use a cloud provider.

Voice dictation— hold the hotkey, speak, release to paste at your cursor in milliseconds.** Choose your model provider**— OpenAI, Groq, Anthropic, Google, Deepgram, ElevenLabs. Bring your own API key.** Transcription cleaning**— grammar and punctuation cleanup via post-processing. No more "um, oh, but".** Dictionary**— custom phrase replacements applied after transcription. (ex."type script"

TypeScript

).Contextual correction— reformat your text based on where you're typing. Automatically format emails into email format.

| Platform | Download |

|---|---|
| macOS (Apple Silicon) |

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/.AppImage .deb

Contributions are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup, local development, and opening up a PR.

Consider joining our Discord server! That's where project contributors communicate.

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