transcription — independent software & tools

7 independent transcription listings the big search engines bury.

• dictator

  github · Free · by amalshaji

  Native macOS dictation with on-device or BYOK speech-to-text, LLM cleanup, screen-aware writing, global hotkeys, focused-field insertion, and a private clipboard.

• aurum

  github · Free · by joe-broadhead

  Speech both ways. On-device by default. Local STT + TTS CLI, aurum-core, aurum-ffi.

• n8n-nodes-palatine-speech

  npm · Free · by palatine_zealot

  n8n node for integrating Palatine Speech API into workflow

• krishnakanthb13.github.io

  github · Free · by krishnakanthb13

  Personal site & portfolio of Krishna Kanth B — online resume, Amplenote plugin & YouTube hubs, a YouTube-caption/VTT extractor with Google Gemini AI, Anki flashcards, AI conversation coaches, and assorted web tools. Pure static HTML/CSS/JS on GitHub Pages.

• lifedash

  github · Free · by Lab-51

  Free, open-source meeting intelligence — record, transcribe, and extract action items 100% locally. Your data stays on your machine.

• easy-transcriber-stt

  github · Free · by Physiologyleptodactyluspentadactylus402

  Transcribe audio and video locally or with cloud providers, with noise reduction, video support, and fast transcript output

• cat-crawl

  npm · Free · by fning

  Multi-channel Obsidian clipping and video transcription CLI (WeChat/YouTube/Douyin).