Hi Product Hunt! 👋 I built BearFox because I wanted to talk instead of type - but every voice-to-text tool I liked sent my voice off to someone's cloud. On a work PC, or for anything private, that's a non-starter. So the goal became simple but stubborn: dictation that's genuinely good *and* never leaves your machine. Everything runs locally - the speech recognition, plus an optional AI clean-up that strips the 'ums', false starts and stray punctuation, so what lands on the page reads like you meant to write it. The hardest part wasn't the transcription - it was making it work on real, locked-down office PCs: no admin rights, nothing to install, often no GPU and only 8GB of RAM. That constraint shaped everything. In the end I bundled every model inside the app, so it works the moment you open it: no setup, no account, no internet. Along the way it grew from a scrappy push-to-talk script into a proper tray app - live dictation, file transcription, and GPU acceleration that quietly falls back to CPU when there isn't one. It's free on the Microsoft Store. I'd genuinely love your feedback, especially on where it could be more useful in everyday work. 🦊

BearFox Smart Dictation

Offline AI dictation that never leaves your PC

Offline AI dictation that never leaves your PC