amical

amical

🎙️ AI Dictation App - Open Source and Local-first ⚡ Type 3x faster, no keyboard needed. 🆓 Powered by open source models, works offline, fast and accurate.

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Amical is an open source AI-powered dictation and note-taking app that runs entirely on your machine. It provides context-aware dictation that adapts to various tasks such as drafting emails, chatting on Discord, writing prompts in IDEs, and messaging friends. The app offers features like super-fast dictation, context-aware speech-to-text, smart voice notes, MCP integration for app control, real-time meeting transcription, extensibility via hotkeys and voice macros, privacy-first design, and a floating widget for easy start/stop actions.

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Homebrew (macOS)

brew install --cask amical

🔮 Overview

Local-first AI Dictation app.

Amical is an open source AI-powered dictation and note-taking app that runs entirely on your machine. Powered by Whisper for speech-to-text and open source LLMs for intelligent processing, Amical gives you the power of AI dictation with complete privacy.

Context-aware dictation that adapts to what you're doing: drafting an email, chatting on Discord, writing prompts in your IDE, or messaging friends. Amical detects the active app and formats your speech accordingly.

Amical dictation demo

✨ Features

✔︎ - Done, ◑ - In Progress, ◯ - Planned

🚀 Super-fast dictation with AI-enhanced accuracy ✔︎

🧠 Context-aware speech-to-text based on the active app ✔︎

📒 Smart voice notes → summaries, tasks, structured notes ◑

🔌 MCP integration → voice commands that control your apps ◯

🎙️ Real-time meeting transcription (mic + system audio) ◯

🔧 Extensible via hotkeys, voice macros, custom workflows ✔︎

🔐 Privacy-first: works offline, one click setup of local models in-app ✔︎

🪟 Floating widget for frictionless start/stop with custom hotkeys ✔︎

🔰 Tech Stack

🤗 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read the Contributing Guide to get started.

🎗 License

Released under MIT.

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