Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Bill, maker of Bzz. What inspired it: I got tired of typing. Not the thinking — the mechanical act of it. I talk way faster than I type, so I went looking for a dictation tool. Every good one wanted to stream my audio to their servers. As someone who deals with sensitive stuff — client notes, business, personal — that was a hard no. I didn't want my voice sitting in someone else's cloud. The problem I'm solving: Dictation shouldn't cost you your privacy, get capped at 2,000 words a week, or lock you into one company's AI. The category treats "your audio never leaves your machine" as an enterprise upsell. I think it should be the default. How I approached it: I built the opposite of the cloud tools. Transcription runs locally on your machine with an on-device Whisper model — your audio never leaves your computer, period. Press F9, talk into any app, and the text lands right where your cursor is. AI cleanup is optional: a bundled local model, your own cloud key, or none at all. And because I'm not paying servers to process your audio, it'll be way cheaper than the $12–15/mo cloud tools when it goes paid. I've lived in it daily for months — >10k dictations, 445K words, ~136 hours saved, zero audio uploaded. It's real, not a demo. It's free until Labor Day, no credit card. I'm looking for early users to join the Discord and tell me what works, what's missing, what's annoying — and I'll build accordingly. I'm here all day answering everything. 🙏

Bzz — Not your ordinary voice-to-text

Local-first dictation. Your voice never leaves your PC

Local-first dictation. Your voice never leaves your PC