VOCALLYAI
Speech recognition, dictation, and voice tools — all local

An open-source voice AI studio.

Vocally AI is a shared home for open-source voice AI. It starts with our own products, built and shipped in the open, and it's open to anyone building the same way: private by default.

An Open Studio

Vocally AI starts with our own products, but the studio is open: if you build open-source voice software that puts privacy first, there's a slot on this shelf for it. The bar is the same one we hold ourselves to:

voice or speech, MIT / Apache-2.0
local-first or self-hostable — no account, no vendor cloud required
bring-your-own-model — privacy built in
shipped — usable today, not a roadmap

Submissions open once the first studio products are public.

The Thesis

Three rules, no exceptions.

01Private by default

Recordings and transcripts stay on your machine — nothing is uploaded unless you choose to send it. No accounts. No credits. No tracking.

02Bring your own model

No vendor lock-in. Run Whisper tiny through large-v3, any GGUF, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint — Ollama, LM Studio, your own server. The bundled default is a floor, not a ceiling.

03Open source, shipped

MIT-licensed code with real installers — notarized DMGs, docker-compose files. Usable today, not a roadmap. Support is welcome, never required.

Products

Dictation

open-sourcing

Native macOS menubar dictation. Hold a hotkey, talk, release — on-device Whisper transcribes and pastes into whatever app you're in. Optional local-LLM cleanup. Native Swift, zero Electron.

Transcribe

next up

The open alternative to credit-metered transcription apps. Drag in audio or video, get SRT / VTT / TXT / Markdown — free, local, any model.

Notes

in build

Voice notes with an immutable original and rewrite styles on a local model. Asks for one permission: the microphone. No Accessibility, no event taps — a claim you can verify in the source.

Voice

planned

Clone your voice and generate multilingual speech — entirely on your machine. Creators clone their voices for content every day; today that means handing your voice to a cloud service.

FirstQuote

pilot

The studio's commercial flagship. Voice-first estimates & invoices for contractors — talk the job while your hands are dirty, get a professional PDF on your letterhead, get nudged until it's paid.

Future Self

researched

Voice time capsules — record for your kid's 18th, a wedding, or yourself in ten years. Local-first with export-always design, because a message to 2040 shouldn't depend on a startup surviving until 2040.