AmicalWhat is Amical
Open-source AI dictation for macOS and Windows that runs on your machine.
Amical is a desktop dictation app. You hold a key (or click the floating widget), talk, and the words land in whatever app you have focused — your editor, a chat window, an email draft. The transcription runs locally with Whisper, or in the cloud if you sign in. Notes you take inside Amical stay with you.
It's open source under MIT and works offline once a local model is set up.
Quick start
Install, grant permissions, take your first dictation.
AI dictation
Push-to-talk, hands-free, auto-detect language, formatting.
Custom hotkeys
Rebind push-to-talk, hands-free toggle, paste-last-transcript, new note.
Local AI models
Whisper for speech, Ollama for language and embeddings.
Desktop widget
The floating pill: click to dictate hands-free.
The project lives at github.com/amicalhq/amical. Help shape it on Discord.