VocalCraft: Lifetime Offline Dictation - Caps Lock to arm. Space to dictate & translate. 100% offline

Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Daniel.

I built VocalCraft out of sheer frustration. I was trying to dictate code into Roo Code, and the built-in Windows dictation (Win+H) was a nightmare. I had to reach for my mouse to pause it, and with my slight Dutch accent, it kept blurting out absolute gibberish. I was losing my mind.

So I built the tool I actually wanted to use. It’s the very first piece of software I’ve ever shipped.

**The Workflow (No-code, click-install-done):**
1️⃣ Press `Caps Lock` to arm the floating Post-it note UI.
2️⃣ Click anywhere and press `Spacebar` to start dictating. Just ramble.
3️⃣ Press `Spacebar` again. It instantly transcribes locally, handles the punctuation perfectly, and pastes the text wherever your cursor is.

No more sending your voice to the cloud. Here in Australia, banks use the phrase *"My voice confirms my identity."* Having my private conversations, coding sessions, or bilingual chats uploaded to a corporate server just so I can type an email - completely dystopian. Talk about something at the kitchen table, next day.. ads!
I am done with that, I am done with subscriptions. No big cloud server needed here so my gift to you...

"Lifetime subs for all!" - you're welcome :) VocalCraft_Lifetime

**The "Aha!" Moments:**
* **The speed:** I don't need perfectly typed, slow text anymore. I just want to ramble, press space, and hit enter. My hands never have to leave the keyboard to grab a mouse.
* **The translation magic:** I was testing it and said, *"De kat krabt de krullen van de trap"* in Dutch. Because I had it set to English, it instantly translated and pasted it perfectly. If you work with international teams (like my colleagues in the Philippines), or you're sitting at a table with someone speaking another language, it just handles it.
* **The logs:** I’m a data freak. VocalCraft keeps a local text log of everything you say, so you never lose a thought.
* **The hardware:** I initially built it for my massive NVIDIA rig, then tried it on a 10-year-old laptop and it froze. I went back to the drawing board and completely rewrote the engine so it gracefully falls back to CPU threading if you don't have a GPU.

*(Pro tip: If you start typing and notice you're in ALL CAPS... you probably left it armed! Just hit Caps Lock again so it doesn't accidentally dictate your frustrations 😂).*

I'm using this every single day, which is the only reason I felt confident enough to share it.

"Let's stop feeding the cloud our private data. Why pay a monthly fee when the device sitting right in front of you is perfectly capable of doing this itself?"

I’d love to know if this solves a problem for you too. There is a 7-day free trial on the site, and a live poll where you can vote on what I build for V2.

If you use dictation right now, what is the one feature that drives you absolutely crazy? Let me know below! 👇

This works way better than I thought, great price too. Thank you 🙏