Tambourine Voice

Tambourine is an open source platform for AI voice dictation that works with any text input on Windows and macOS. Speech is transcribed by a speech to text model and then cleaned up by a language model, with the formatting rules held in prompts that the user can edit in the settings. It is aimed at developers and power users who want control over their dictation setup. Users choose their own models, using cloud providers or running fully local with Whisper and Ollama. Default features are built as customizable prompts and include a personal dictionary for technical terms and names, backtrack corrections such as saying "scratch that" to fix a mistake, and automatic list formatting. The vendor lists context awareness, selection commands such as "make this more formal", and voice shortcuts as coming later. The code is released under the AGPL 3.0 license. Self hosting is available now and free, with some setup required, and the source is on GitHub. A hosted service, where the vendor runs the infrastructure, is listed as coming soon with a waitlist, and no price for it is published.