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Levitan
You speak, it types. Free, private, on-device voice input
11 followers
You speak, it types. Free, private, on-device voice input
11 followers
Most voice typing lives in the cloud, costs a monthly fee, and eats your GPU. Levitan doesn't. Hold a key, speak, and polished text appears where your cursor is - in any app. Runs locally on your CPU, fully offline, nothing leaves your device. Free forever. RU/KZ/EN + 96 languages. Windows & macOS.
Privacy-first AI is one of those spaces where trust can become a much stronger moat than features.
Curious—do users adopt Levitan because it's local/private, or do they stay because the workflow ends up being better than cloud alternatives?
@aryan787544 It depends on the user’s needs. For those who simply need dictation, Levitan fully meets their requirements, so they continue using it. It is especially useful when working on a laptop somewhere without an internet connection and dictating thoughts, notes, or ideas.
@kolomeitsev That makes sense.
I'm curious whether that changes over time as well. Someone might adopt it because it's private and offline, but still end up relying on it for a completely different reason months later. It'll be interesting to see if those reasons diverge as your user base grows.
Privacy-first AI is becoming a much more interesting space than people expected.
Curious—what's been the bigger driver of adoption so far: privacy, or the experience once people actually try Levitan?
@aryan787544 It depends on the user’s needs. For those who simply need dictation, Levitan fully meets their requirements, so they continue using it. It is especially useful when working on a laptop somewhere without an internet connection and dictating thoughts, notes, or ideas.
This is genuinely cool, offline voice typing that just works sounds amazing. One thing that would make it a daily driver for me is a custom vocabulary or glossary feature, letting me add jargon, names, or technical terms so it stops mangling them in transcripts.
@eyupsapc10102 I’m planning to add this together with a small local LLM that will handle punctuation, paragraph breaks, and dictionary-based word correction.
the offline angle is genuinely cool and the free model makes this way more approachable than whisper-based alternatives i've tried. one thing that would actually push me to use it daily though, could you add a custom vocabulary or replacement rule system? like so i can set "levitan" to always become "Levitan" or auto-format certain phrases i say a lot. would make the raw transcription feel way more polished without me having to fix stuff every time.
@kocanaoglu80506 I’m planning to add this together with a small local LLM that will handle punctuation, paragraph breaks, and dictionary-based word correction.
honestly love the offline angle, super rare these days. one thing i'd actually use though is a custom vocabulary or shortcuts feature so i can teach it my weird jargon and have it auto-replace spoken phrases with longer snippets, that would save me way more time than just raw dictation
@sendurgut14824 I’m planning to add this together with a small local LLM that will handle punctuation, paragraph breaks, and dictionary-based word correction.