Freestyle Voice

@andrewjsalzer Hey Andrew! It's Matt, I maintain Freestyle. Really appreciate you putting up a PR!! I just approved it and left a comment. We'd love to have you join our Discord community, too. That's where other contributors and I have discussions.

this was the project for those curious @FreestyleVoice

just made my first pr to an open source project was pretty fun to work on and hopefully they decide to merge

Two weeks into building Freestyle, @MathurAditya7 and I learned a ton about building in voice. For context, we've been working on an oss alternative to Wispr Flow. Thought it was going to be a cakewalk, but there are some technical things that are really challenging. I wrote an article on how we built the floating pill thing. 1️⃣ The pill isn't part of the app. It's its own transparent, non-focusable Electron window that floats above everything. That way it doesn't steal your cursor when dictating. 2️⃣ To get the waveform effect, we use getUserMedia API and attach a Web Audio analyser. Split the results of analyzer into 14 bars rendered by frequency intensity. Check out the article! freestylevoice.com/blog/floating-…

When you're trying to use great software but haters block you from doing so.

The current status of Freestyle... "Is PostHog down" ➡️ "Is post-hug down." 1.12s inference Yeah we have a long way to go 😂

It's local. We do not have a cloud ourselves. On Freestyle, you can select a local model that runs on device, like whisper.cpp, and Qwen. This ensures your voice and recording never leave your device. We also do provide the option to use cloud transcription models. Bring your own API key. If you use gpt-4o-transcribe, for example, your recording will go to OpenAI's cloud for transcription. Hope that makes sense!

@FreestyleVoice Is it local? Or does my voice and recording go up to the cloud somewhere?

Excited to announce that we're launching Freestyle! 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, ensuring your dictations are private and never leaves your device. A couple of highlight features: 1️⃣ Transcription post-processing: grammer and punctuation cleanup via post-processing. No more "um, oh, but". 2️⃣ Choose your own models, cloud or local on-device 3️⃣ Dictionary: custom phrase replacements applied after transcription. (ex. "type script" → TypeScript). Try it out today! freestylevoice.com

@JeremyKrak @rileybrown How's the latency and accuracy compared to Wispr?

@rileybrown I vibecoded my own clone across MacOS, Windows and iOs in about 2 days. It's not hard.

bro wispr flow went down for me... i'm so cooked lol i hate typing.

@robert__blaga @rileybrown We're free, also open source 👀

@rileybrown But freeflow is free with a free Groq api key. Desktop only though, but hardly miss the iPhone one

Hey Avi, I'm Matt, I maintain the Freestyle project, we're also building an oss dictation app. Really cool project! Saw the demo and was really impressed with the latency. I find getting sub-second latency with high accuracy and post-processing be one of the biggest challenges to building good dictation. We're trying to build an oss dictation app that feels just as optimized as Wispr. I'd love to have you check out our project, we've got a pretty active community on Discord with ppl trying to solve these exact problems. You seem talented, would love to have you help out.

Wispr Flow is so unusable now. Many dictations getting missed or mismatched. Back to VeryFastDication - github.com/aviaryan/Very-…

Hey Riley, I'm Matt and I maintain the Freestyle project. I was a huge Wispr user, but I find their subscription model and valuation to be insane. That's been my motivation to build a free, oss alternative that feels just as optimized. To get Freestyle to feel just as good, there's a ton of interesting work around post-processing and optimizing for sub-minute transcription latency. Trying to grow our community and catch up to Wispr. We actually just launched it today. Hope you get to check it out! github.com/freestyle-voic…

@geekbb Thank you so much for sharing our project!!

语音转文字听写应用，按住快捷键说话即可在光标位置粘贴干净文本。 github.com/freestyle-voic…

@shikhr_ Thanks for working so hard on it!

@FreestyleVoice Congrats on the launch! It's a really solid project, and it's only going to get better from here. The community has been lovely as well, and I've had a lot of fun working on it.

Lately, speech-to-text voice dictation apps like @WisprFlow have taken the world by storm. Credit where it's due, it's a genuinely polished product. Low latency, the post-processing is great, the product feels premium. It’s changed how we do work. But a couple things didn't sit right with me. You're paying $12 a month for it. Every sound you make, every word you say and every transcription passes through their servers. It’s a standing risk to your privacy. There's no reason your private thoughts ever have to leave your device. Plenty of open-source dictation tools already exist, but none of them feel as polished as the paid apps, and that gap is what we want to close. Voice dictation is a commodity and should be free and open source. It's an early preview with lots to build, so we'd genuinely love contributors. Freestyle is a technically challenging and ridiculously fun project to work on. We’re looking to grow our community. If this sounds interesting, come build with us! github.com/freestyle-voic…

@souvenger @ParthJadhav8 Hey Sourav, I'm Matt, I maintain Freestyle voice project. would love to have you join our community and contribute! We've got a pretty active group, and lots of discussions going on.

@ParthJadhav8 may be i want to contribute if someone working

Anyone working on Open Source fully featured alternative to Whisper flow ?

@NonDualistCoder @shikhr_ @ParthJadhav8 Really appreciate the shoutouts @NonDualistCoder @shikhr_ !

@shikhr_ @ParthJadhav8 @FreestyleVoice I just tried this and it's pretty incredible what it can do.

@ParthJadhav8 Hey Parth, I'm Matt, I'm the maintainer of Freestyle. We're building an open source voice dictation app! The project is a little over a week old. We have a small community of devs working on it. Would love to have you check it out, join our community working on it!