{"slug": "show-hn-freestyle-wispr-flow-alternative-that-respects-privacy", "title": "Show HN: Freestyle – Wispr Flow Alternative that respects privacy", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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.\n\nFreestyle 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.\n\n**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\"`\n\n→`TypeScript`\n\n).**Contextual correction**— reformat your text based on where you're typing. Automatically format emails into email format.\n\n| Platform | Download |\n|---|---|\n| macOS (Apple Silicon) |\n`.dmg` |\n\n`.dmg`\n\n`.exe`\n\n[/](https://github.com/freestyle-voice/freestyle/releases/latest)`.AppImage`\n\n`.deb`\n\nContributions are welcome. See [CONTRIBUTING.md](/freestyle-voice/freestyle/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) for setup, local development, and opening up a PR.\n\nConsider joining our [Discord server](https://discord.gg/Fmgt5yZCDu)! That's where project contributors communicate.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-freestyle-wispr-flow-alternative-that-respects-privacy", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/freestyle-voice/freestyle", "published_at": "2026-06-23 23:28:04+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-23 23:51:20.491932+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "natural-language-processing"], "entities": ["Freestyle", "Wispr Flow", "OpenAI", "Groq", "Anthropic", "Google", "Deepgram", "ElevenLabs"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-freestyle-wispr-flow-alternative-that-respects-privacy", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-freestyle-wispr-flow-alternative-that-respects-privacy.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-freestyle-wispr-flow-alternative-that-respects-privacy.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-freestyle-wispr-flow-alternative-that-respects-privacy.jsonld"}}