LazyTyper

Anyone who writes a lot and would rather talk than type will get the most from LazyTyper, a free voice typing app that turns speech into text on Windows, macOS and Linux.

LazyTyper is a speech-to-text tool that gives you 12 speech models to choose from, including Whisper and other AI models, and five of them run fully on your device.

That matters if you dictate anything you would rather not send over the internet.

Dictation works across multiple languages and copes with accents and technical terms.

The makers claim it is about three times faster than typing by hand, with around 90% accuracy, so expect to proofread what comes out.

The app is lightweight and has no ads.

Privacy is handled in a straightforward way.

When you use a cloud model, your voice goes directly to the API provider you picked, and LazyTyper does not store it on its own servers.

The local models avoid that step altogether.

Pricing is free, which makes it an easy app to test against whatever dictation tool you use now.