Writing by voice, on your own device
How to get more written by talking than by typing — on a PC, a Mac or a phone — and how to do it without your voice, your screen or your words going somewhere you did not choose. Every post is checked against the product's own documentation on the date it shows, and says so when something is in beta.
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Is voice typing private? Eight things a dictation app can send, and how to check each one
Voice typing can send your audio, your words and even a screenshot. How to check what any dictation app sends, and exactly what Deixis sends.
How to transcribe a meeting without a bot joining the call
Record both sides of a call on your PC and transcribe it there, with no bot in the participant list and no audio uploaded. How it works, and its limits.
Speech to text offline: how to keep dictating when the internet goes
How to dictate with no internet on Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone, what offline really covers, what to do before you go, and what still needs a network.
Teach dictation your vocabulary: names, jargon and acronyms
When dictation mangles names, jargon and acronyms, a custom vocabulary fixes it. How to teach Deixis your words, which to add, and why the list is capped.
How to type by voice in any Android app, with the speech recognised on the phone
Dictate into any Android app's text field from a floating microphone. Speech recognition runs on the phone, and meetings are transcribed there too.
How to type by voice in any app on a Mac, with the speech recognised on the Mac itself
How to type by voice in any app on a Mac: hold Ctrl+Option, speak, let go. Speech recognition runs on your Mac, free and with no account.
What you get
More than dictation. One key, and everything behind it.
Hold the key and press a letter: free mode, a grab, a meeting, a recording, a translation, your own buttons. All of it on your own device, all of it free, none of it behind an account.
Dictation, where your cursor is
Hold a key, speak, release. Clean, punctuated text lands in whatever has focus, on your PC, your Mac and your phone, with your clipboard handed back.
Free mode: talk and point
Narrate for as long as you like while you grab a region, pick a button on screen or take a selection. One note, what you said interleaved with what you pointed at, pasted where you finish and saved as Markdown.
Screen grabs, annotated
Freeze every screen at the keypress, drag a region, add arrows, boxes, text and numbered steps, and pixelate what is private. Saved as a PNG that stays editable.
Screen recording, shared as a link
Record the screen with your narration. The recording writes itself up with a title, chapters and a summary, and from your Deixis account it shares as a link anyone can open without one. The Loom you can stop paying for.
Meetings, no bot, names included
Your microphone and the other side, transcribed on your machine while the call runs. Deixis tells the voices apart and remembers the ones you name, and never uploads a voice.
Your own buttons and workflows
Add a button to the palette: it gets the note on stdin and types back whatever it prints. Send finished notes to any URL you own. Chain steps: read the text off a screenshot, translate it, summarise it, post it.
Hold a key. Speak. Keep working.
Deixis is free, needs no account, and runs on your own device.
v1.2.2 · 64‑bit Windows 10/11 · macOS 13 on Apple silicon · 51 MB · nothing else to install · also for Windows