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Epilude

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Local voice dictation for Mac for polished text

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Local voice dictation for Mac for polished text

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Hold a key, speak, release: polished text lands in any app on your Mac. Epilude transcribes, punctuates, cleans up, and matches your tone in about a second. Runs fully on-device, so audio never leaves your Mac.

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Hey Product Hunt! I'm Gustav, one of the makers of Epilude. Most of my work day is writing: prompting, code reviews, Slack messages and a lot of emails. When I hurt my elbow, I needed a to find a way to keep up my writing without putting too much strain on my arm, which led us to building Epilude. We wanted a voice typing tool that was smooth as butter, typed what we intended to say just the way we intended to say it, and most importantly kept all our data on my Mac without anything we said being sent to anyone else's server. Epilude is just that. It turns speech into finished writing, completely locally using open-weight speech-to-text and cleanup models that we've fine-tuned to work as well as possible on your Mac, with a tiny footprint. After installing it (Mac only for now), simply hold a key, say what you want to write (even in a rough format), release. Epilude will transcribe, punctuate and format your writing, trim the rambling, and match the tone to the app you're in: formal in Mail, casual in iMessage. It takes about a second, and it works in any text field in your Mac. My favourite use case is that I've noticed that it helps me code more effectively with LLMs. I've found rambling out a longer prompt and then tightening it up with Epilude is a lot faster and more effective than writing each prompt by hand. I type about 44 words a minute. I speak closer to 150. Mac only for now, and Local Mode needs Apple Silicon. For now, full on-device cleanup requires 16GB of RAM whilst we optimise our local models; on smaller Macs you still get on-device transcription with basic formatting, and it still never touches the cloud. If you've never used a voice dictation tool for Mac, I encourage you try dictating out your next long email or prompt!

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2h ago

"trim the rambling" is the phrase that catches me, since that's not just punctuation cleanup, that's deciding what you didn't mean to say. for casual notes that's exactly what I'd want, but if I'm dictating something with a number, a caveat, or a qualifier in the middle of a rambly sentence, trimming risks cutting the part that mattered along with the filler. is there a way to see what got trimmed before it lands in the app, or does it commit straight to the final text with no diff to check against

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1h ago

Awesome design! This is a total lifesaver for slow typists like me, and having everything processed fully on-device brings huge peace of mind.

If you don't mind sharing, which local speech-to-text model (e.g., Whisper variant) are you running under the hood?

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6m ago

Epilude

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Hey Product Hunt - Mark here, the other creator of Epilude.

Our local dictation is second to none, we've spent a lot of time honing the models and process to get this running smoothly. I love knowing my voice or dictations aren't leaving my laptop - this is one for the privacy focused folk out there!

I'd also watch this space if you're worried about sending your meetings to external servers - in August we will be launching our locally transcribed meeting notes. Watch this space!

P.S. of course this was written with Epilude 😉

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1m ago