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Speech-To-Text Apps
A downloadable app shareable with your entire business that triples their word count and allows them to prompt Claude, Codex, Hermes, and other agents five times faster, making them five times more productive.
How it runs
Trigger
Hotkey held
Step 01
Local capture from the mic
Step 02
On-device transcription model
Step 03
Punctuation, fillers, per-app tone
Step 04
Paste at cursor in any app
What it is
A dictation app on every machine in the business, transcribing locally at speaking speed and pasting clean text wherever the cursor is.
You need this if your team types prompts into AI tools, because you've made typing speed the rate limiter on the most leveraged tool you own.
A good operator thinks at 150 words a minute and types at 40, and you pay that gap every time they reach for an agent.
If a few people already use AI heavily, this is the cheapest multiplier on that habit.
The actual build
What it does for you
Typing stops being the bottleneck on every AI interaction
so the people already getting leverage from agents get several times more of it.
It runs on-device
so you can roll it out across the whole team without a data-handling conversation.
Long-form context gets cheap to give, and briefs, specs and prompts get richer because dictating three paragraphs costs nothing
Built and running
Built internally for the business.
How to build it
- Fork an existing open-source local-STT shell rather than building the capture layer yourself
- Run a small on-device model so latency stays under speaking speed and audio never leaves the machine
- Add a formatting pass that strips filler, fixes punctuation and adapts to the target app
- Wire a global hotkey and paste-at-cursor, which are the hard parts rather than the model
- Ship it as a signed download the whole team can install without involving IT
Want this one built into your business?
Thirty minutes, no deck. We map what you run today and tell you what it would take.