Show HN: Offline voice to text and AI keyboard
DictaWiz is an offline voice-to-text AI keyboard app that works across iOS and macOS applications without requiring internet connectivity. It offers on-device speech recognition, automatic summarization, and translation in over 99 languages while ensuring user privacy. The app supports integrations with productivity tools and allows optional use of cloud-based features via user-provided API keys.
- ▪DictaWiz performs all AI processing locally on the device, ensuring no voice data leaves the user's phone.
- ▪The app supports 25 languages with a fast engine and over 99 languages with a comprehensive engine, all usable offline.
- ▪Users can generate AI summaries of recordings with key points, decisions, and action items, including speaker identification.
- ▪DictaWiz integrates with apps like Notion, Obsidian, and Slack through webhooks and supports Siri Shortcuts and Live Activities.
- ▪The app emphasizes privacy with no data collection, no account requirement, and optional cloud features only when users provide their own API keys.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 13 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Voice to text button gone — r/OpenAI
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 3,837 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | App Store |
| Canonical URL | https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dictawiz-voice-notes-recorder/id6759256382 |
| Publication time | Sat, 16 May 2026 09:53:46 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-16T10:05:18.114Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-16T10:05:18.114Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | iFoX3X6GACOn · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
DictaWiz: Voice Notes Recorder Offline Speech to Text AI Free · In‑App Purchases Share 17 Ratings 4.8 Age Rating 4+ Years Category Productivity Developer CORDOC LLC Language EN English Size 17.7 MB iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch Limited time lifetime offer! Talk into any app - Mail, Messages, etc. Record meetings on Watch. AI turns it into clean summaries. Your voice never leaves your phone. Dictate in any app with AI that runs entirely on your phone. No internet needed. No data ever leaves your device. AI VOICE KEYBOARD Talk naturally and get polished text. DictaWiz uses on-device AI to transcribe your voice and clean up the result, fixing grammar, punctuation, and formatting automatically. Works in Messages, Notes, Mail, and every other app.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at App Store.