100% on your computer · free & open source

talk.
it types.

Hold your shortcut, say it, let go. The text appears at your cursor in under half a second, and the speech recognition runs on your own computer.

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message to Leo

Hey Leo,

The login page is throwing errors again since this morning's deploy. Can you roll it back while I check the logs?

let go → inserted in 0.31 s
the bubble, while you hold
< 0.5 s
from letting go to text on screen
0 bytes
of your voice sent anywhere
any app
email, Slack, VS Code, your browser

three moves.
that's the whole app.

Burbuja sits in your tray and wakes up when you press the shortcut, in any app.

  1. 01
    hold

    hold

    Press your shortcut in any app. You choose the keys, and the mic opens in about 30 ms.

  2. 02

    talk

    Talk the way you'd talk to a coworker, pauses included. Whisper understands English, Spanish and 97 other languages.

  3. 03
    see you Thursday at three.

    let go

    Release the keys and the text appears at your cursor, punctuated and ready to send.

privacy, by architecture

your voice
stays home.

Cloud dictation sends your voice to someone else's server. Burbuja has no server. The speech model runs on your computer, and the only thing the app downloads is the model you pick.

You never create an account, and the app sends no usage data. When you delete your history, it's erased from the disk.

where things runyour PC
speech recognition your GPU or CPU
ai cleanup (optional)localhost only
history this disk, your rules
your audio discarded by default
accounts, telemetry none
sent to the internet0 bytes

the details.

hold, or go hands-free

Double-tap the shortcut and keep talking for up to five minutes. Tap again to finish, Esc to throw it away.

your words, spelled right

post gres → PostgreSQL

optional ai polish

Connect a local model through Ollama or LM Studio to remove filler words and fix punctuation. It adds about 0.2 s.

a history you own

Search, copy or re-polish past dictations, and choose how many days to keep them.

habla español too

The app speaks English and Spanish. Whisper understands 99 languages and figures out which one you're using.

free, local
dictation.
coming soon.

Install it, pick a speech model and hold your shortcut.
Free and open source under the MIT license.

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