03Dictation
Free · No account · No cardHold a key, speak, let go. The text is typed wherever your cursor is, usually in about a second, in any app. The speech model is Whisper, included with Glowstone and running on your Mac: no dictation subscription, and your voice never goes to anyone’s server.
Most dictation apps charge every month and send what you say to their servers to turn it into text. Glowstone includes the transcription models: you download one once and it’s yours. Dictating and transcribing meetings cost nothing, however much you talk.
Speaking is about three times faster than typing, and people say more when they talk: the context, the why, the detail that makes an agent’s answer good.
The transcription happens on your own machine. It works with no connection, and what you say isn’t uploaded, stored or used by anyone to train anything. The audio is discarded once it’s text.
A generic transcriber hears “Vercel” and writes “Versel”. Glowstone reads the names in your workspace (people, companies, projects) and learns the ones you correct, without ever swapping an ordinary word for one of them.
Settings → Voice. It tells you the price before charging it: the size of the model it will download, the microphone permission, and Accessibility, which is what lets it type into other apps.
You choose the key during onboarding: 🌐 fn, the right ⌘, or two arrow keys pressed together. You can change it any time in Settings → Gestures, along with the rest of the shortcuts.
Hold the key in Mail, Slack, a document or a chat with your agent. A small pill shows it’s listening; when you let go, the text appears where the cursor was. Hold it and say nothing, and nothing is typed.
For long stretches, hold fn and tap space to leave it running, then space again to send. With the right ⌘ it’s one press to start and one to stop; with two arrows, the same chord starts and stops it.
Names that already have a note go in on their own. For the rest (tools, products, a surname that’s written nowhere) tell your agent “it writes Versel and it’s Vercel” and it adds the word to your list in .glowstone/vocabulario.md.
Yes. Glowstone is free, and dictation doesn’t add a subscription: the speech models are open (Whisper, through whisper.cpp) and run on your Mac, so there is nothing to meter. The only thing you might pay for is the AI agent you chat with, on your own plan, and dictation doesn’t use it.
No. It’s transcribed on your Mac and the audio is never saved; only the text is typed where your cursor was. Glowstone keeps your last 50 dictations as text, on your Mac, so you can copy one again, and you can clear them in Settings → Voice. If you then send that text to your agent, it goes wherever your agent goes, like anything you type.
The default (base) is small and fast. If you work with strong accents or a less common language, Settings → Voice offers larger Whisper models (large-v3-turbo and large-v3) that are slower and more precise, with their size shown before you download.
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