Free. Local. Powerful.

Press a key. Speak. The finished text lands where you were already typing.

Download See what arrives

Speech recognition runs on your computer. Windows now, macOS and Linux next.

Ready Ctrl + Space Copy last Start meeting Open app Hide
Reply to Sam

Pressing the shortcut records, and the cleaned sentence is pasted into the window that had focus.
Dictation

What arrives

Cleanup is allowed to tidy. It is not allowed to rewrite.

Remove ‘um’ and ‘uh’, correct supported spellings and vocabulary, and format without rewriting.

So I think we should ship the beta on Friday. Let's keep the old installer around until we're sure.

Whichever you pick, the raw recognition is saved unchanged alongside it.

meetings

Record the room and the call.

Your microphone and your computer’s audio, captured together and transcribed.

The Meetings page listing transcribed recordings with their dates and durations.
Basalt stock
  • Notes are assembled from sentences that were actually said.
  • Import a recording you already have and transcribe it.
  • Export to HTML, PDF, Markdown or plain text.
private

It stays on your machine.

The words you speak are processed where you speak them.

  • Recognition and cleanup run on your own hardware.
  • No account, and nothing is uploaded.
  • An outside model is used only if you connect one yourself.
The Dictation page showing the text cleanup choice and the local cleanup model.
Fog and Basalt. The page switches with the stock you choose above.
install

Get it.

Builds are published as GitHub releases. The command installs the same build and updates it in place.

Windows

Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit

Not published yet

Signed installer lands with the first public tag.

PowerShell 
irm https://sonojot.com/install.ps1 | iex
winget 
winget install SonoJot.SonoJot

Pending acceptance into the community repository.

macOS

Apple silicon, macOS 14 and later

Not published yet

Microphone capture and clipboard delivery work today. System audio and automatic paste do not.

Terminal 
curl -fsSL https://sonojot.com/install.sh | sh
Homebrew 
brew install --cask sonojot

Pending tap publication.

Linux

x86-64, AppImage and .deb

Not published yet

Microphone capture and clipboard delivery work today. System audio and automatic paste do not.

Shell 
curl -fsSL https://sonojot.com/install.sh | sh
Debian package 
curl -fsSLO https://github.com/Cody-Stevens/WindowsSTTApp/releases/latest/download/SonoJot_0.13.0_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./SonoJot_0.13.0_amd64.deb

Available on releases that publish a .deb.

Every release is listed on the releases page. The install commands read that same list, so running one again updates an existing copy and never needs a new URL.