Nocturne Speak
Say it. It's typed.
System-wide dictation, powered by a model that lives on your machine. Nocturne Speak turns natural talk into clean text in any app — your email, your editor, your notes. Nothing you say ever leaves the room.
Free to try — ten minutes of dictation a day · No card, no account
The trial installer is being packaged — it will be available right here at launch.
Everywhere your cursor goes.
Nocturne Speak isn't an app you dictate into — it's dictation for every app you already use. Wherever you can type, you can talk: email, documents, code editors, chat, search bars.
One shortcut, and your voice lands right where your cursor is.
No special windows, no copy-paste shuffle — and no audio sent anywhere.
Any app. Any field. Your words, where your cursor is.
Natural speech, clean text.
Talk the way you actually talk — false starts, "um", thinking out loud. Nocturne Speak keeps up and writes down what you meant: punctuated, capitalized, readable.
It follows the rhythm of real speech instead of forcing you into robot-command cadence.
Your voice is processed in memory, on your machine — then it's gone.
Speech at thinking speed, text at reading quality.
Easier on your hands.
A working day is tens of thousands of keystrokes. Speaking is none of them. Dictating your email, notes, and drafts gives your wrists and fingers a genuine rest.
If typing is uncomfortable — long days at the keyboard, sore wrists, hands that have earned a break — your voice can carry most of the writing you do.
Rest your hands without handing your voice to a server.
A full day's writing. Zero keystrokes.
Think out loud. It comes back structured.
Clean mode tidies as you go — the ums vanish, punctuation lands, dead air disappears. Structure mode goes further: ramble for five minutes and the model reshapes it into organized, usable text — an outline, a brief, a spec.
If you build with AI tools, it's the fastest way to turn a half-formed idea into a prompt worth running. If you write, it's how a story gets spoken into existence.
Five rambling minutes in, one structured page out — and none of it ever leaves your machine.
Spoken rambling in. Structured writing out.
Private by physics, not policy.
Most dictation tools send your voice to a server and send text back. Nocturne Speak has no server to send it to — transcription happens on your processor, in your memory.
That's not a privacy setting you have to trust. It's how the software is built.
Your voice never leaves the room it was spoken in.
No cloud round-trip. No audio archive. No one listening.
The Pledge
Spoken here. Kept here.
No account
Install and open. That's it.
No cloud
Transcription happens on your processor.
No recordings kept
Audio is processed in memory, then gone.
Works offline
Dictate on a plane. It won't notice.
Start talking. Stop typing.
Ten minutes a day are free — then US$59, one-time, for Nocturne Speak. Or take the whole suite for US$129.
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