Global dictation shortcut
Start from anywhere with the default Ctrl+Win+Space trigger, tray menu, or compact floating microphone.
Windows-native • Local-first • No account required
Talk to your computer. Shruti does the typing.
Trigger dictation from anywhere and send the final text back into your focused app automatically — powered by local speech recognition.
- 100%
- local transcription
- Ctrl+Win+Space
- default hold-to-dictate
- 3
- insertion modes
Local Whisper transcription
Clipboard fallback
Tray and floating controls
Light and dark themes
Designed for daily writing
Dictation that stays out of your way.
Shruti focuses on one job: quickly turning speech into useful text inside messages, prompts, notes, and documents.
Insert into your active app
Shruti remembers your previous target, restores focus, and inserts the final transcript with a clipboard fallback when needed.
Live preview, final output
See partial text while recording. Only the finalized transcript is inserted, so your work stays clean.
Local model management
Download, verify, import, and remove speech models without creating an account or sending recordings to a hosted service.
Auto, preview, or copy-only
Choose immediate insertion by default, review before insert, or keep dictation as a copy-to-clipboard workflow.
Native Windows feel
Built with WinUI 3, a tray presence, system theme support, and microphone controls that feel at home on Windows.
Privacy by default
Your voice stays on your machine.
Shruti is local-first. Core transcription runs on your PC, and models, settings, recordings, and transcripts live locally unless you explicitly export them.
- No hosted transcription required for the core workflow
- No account or subscription gate planned for local dictation
- Transcript text is redacted from diagnostic logs by default
Simple loop
From voice to text in five steps.
01
Trigger
Use the shortcut, tray, app button, or floating mic.
02
Capture
Shruti remembers the foreground app and records your microphone.
03
Transcribe
Audio is normalized and processed locally through the selected model.
04
Review
Watch live partial text or open preview-before-insert mode.
05
Insert
The final transcript lands back in the app you were using.
Open source
Follow or contribute to Shruti.
Shruti is under active development in the open. Explore the source, build the Windows app locally, or follow the project for release updates.