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Welcome to Echophrase

Echophrase is a privacy-first desktop application that transforms your voice into text using state-of-the-art AI - all processed locally on your machine. The free tier offers 100% offline transcription, is unlimited, and requires no account - install, grab a model (a one-time download on first run), and start dictating. Signing in is only needed if you want Pro features. New accounts include a 14-day free Pro trial.

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Why Echophrase?

Free & Unlimited, No Account

Unlimited transcriptions, 100% offline transcription after a one-time model download, zero sign-up. The free tier never requires a login or a server connection for transcription.

100% Private

Your voice never leaves your computer. No cloud processing, no audio or transcript collection - ever.

Swap the Engine, Keep the App

Swappable transcription backends built on a trait-based architecture. Ships with NVIDIA Parakeet-TDT 0.6B v3 by default, plus Qwen3-ASR 0.6B for 52 languages and Parakeet Lite 120M for low-end hardware.

Fast, Native, Cross-Platform

Built on Tauri + Rust, not Electron. A polished, lightweight, genuinely native app on Windows, macOS, and Linux (alpha) with a tiny footprint and instant startup.

GPU Accelerated

Fast on-device transcription via DirectML on Windows, Metal on macOS, with CPU fallback everywhere.

Works Anywhere

Type in any application - browsers, editors, chat apps, you name it.

Grammar & Punctuation Cleanup (Pro)

Optional transform models automatically clean up grammar and punctuation, something many competitors leave entirely to you.

Save to File & JSON Export (Pro)

Auto-save transcripts to a file, or export as JSON with custom metadata for downstream tooling.

Self-Serve Privacy

Fully self-serve GDPR compliant. Export your data or delete your account yourself, anytime, no support ticket required.
Plus tons of quality-of-life customizations, from hotkeys to filler-word removal to number normalization - see Configuration.

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How It Works

  1. Press your hotkey to start recording
  2. Speak naturally - Echophrase listens
  3. Press it again and your words appear as text, typed wherever your cursor is
No copy-paste. No switching windows. Just speak and it types.

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Next Steps

Quickstart

Get up and running in 5 minutes

Download

Get Echophrase for Windows, macOS, or Linux