Observed arrival · 2026-10-11
Lipwise’s voice-dictation phrasebook
Lipwise is a free, open-source desktop dictation app for Windows, macOS, and Linux, with voice commands for editing and formatting speech.
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- People who dictate across desktop apps
- Worth noticing
- It distinguishes audio from transcript: audio stays local, while a selected cloud AI provider can receive transcript text.
Field notes
The page documents a 16 kHz in-memory microphone path and says one of 69 speech models runs locally. For optional local editing, it describes checking GPU and memory, fetching llama.cpp and a Qwen3.5 model (4B or 9B), then verifying and running it; this is a described workflow, not an independently tested one. The phrasebook covers reversals, punctuation, formatting, replacement, translation, and user-defined sign-offs.
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