I started dictating instead of typing and basically never went back. It's how I get thoughts out of my head now and into a doc, a Slack, an email. I can't really work without it anymore. Two things kept bugging me though. The first was privacy. I was talking through contracts, half-formed ideas, stuff about my team, and shipping all of it to someone else's servers to get transcribed. The more I leaned on it, the more that bothered me. I wanted a version where the sensitive stuff just never left my machine. So that's the first thing we built. Mutter has a fully on-device mode. Turn it on and your audio is transcribed locally and never uploaded. You can run it with wifi off and it still works. The second was that these apps clean up what I said, but they don't get what I was trying to do. I'd ramble "reply to Josh, deck looks good, cut slide four" and get back a clean transcript of exactly that. Useful, but I still had to go write the actual email. I wanted it to read the context and hand me the finished thing. So Mutter has two modes, both always on. Dictate is the simple one. You talk, it writes clean text, no inference, no surprises. You don't want a model second-guessing you when you're just taking notes. Intent mode is the other one. You riff, and based on what you're doing, Mutter writes what you actually meant. That's the whole thing. Private when it counts, and it finishes the thought instead of just transcribing it. Would love feedback, especially on Intent mode. It's the part I'm most excited about and the part I most want to get right.

Mutter AI Dictation

Think out loud and get a polished version of your thoughts

Think out loud and get a polished version of your thoughts