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Pithflow is voice-to-text dictation built natively for Windows. Hold a global hotkey (Ctrl+Space), speak, release - Pithflow transcribes, cleans up, and types the finished text into whatever app has focus: Slack, Gmail, VS Code, Word, any browser. No integration, no copy-paste; short clips return in under a second. Because it types at the OS input layer it also works in Citrix, RDP and VDI sessions where app-specific tools fail. AI cleanup adds punctuation and formatting with 8 tones and 6 intent modes; custom snippets, a personal dictionary and specialty term packs (medical, legal, engineering) keep domain vocabulary right. Privacy-first: audio is processed in real time and never stored. 100+ languages with strong Spanish support. Free tier available; Pro $9.99/mo.

Paraspeech is a speech-to-text app for Mac and iOS that turns spoken thoughts into clean text with a simple hold, speak, and release workflow. On Mac, users press and hold a hotkey in the app where they want to write, speak naturally, and release; Paraspeech processes the recording and attempts to insert the result directly into the active editable field, with clipboard fallback for unsupported fields. Apple Silicon Macs can use supported local speech modes, allowing audio to be transcribed on-device and work offline after setup, while eligible cloud-backed paths are also available depending on the selected backend. Fast local models cover English, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and 25-language dictation, while Multilingual Large expands coverage to more than 100 languages where available. AI Rewriting can turn rambling speech into cleaner, formatted text through Cloud Cleanup or, where supported, an on-device rewrite model.