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Dictation for the tools you already work in

Deixis is not a plugin, an extension or a window you switch to. It types where your cursor already is, so it works the same in a terminal, an editor, a browser tab and a chat window. What changes between them is the punctuation: Deixis knows the name of the app and the name of the field your words are going into, so a prompt, a commit line, a ticket and a chat reply come out shaped like themselves. These pages take one tool each and show you the before and after, field by field, with what it will not do said just as plainly.

Dictation for

One page per tool

Dictation for Claude Code

Deixis dictates into Claude Code on one key — terminal, editor, desktop app or browser. Speech recognition on your own device, no account, free.

Dictation for Cursor

Deixis dictates into Cursor on one key — the agent prompt, the editor, the terminal, anywhere else. Recognition on your own device, no account, free.

Dictation for VS Code

Deixis dictates into VS Code on one key — chat, editor, terminal, and every other window on your machine. Speech recognition on your device, no account.

Dictation for Windows Terminal

Deixis dictates into Windows Terminal on one key — commands, commit messages, long notes. Speech recognition on your own device, offline, with no account.

Dictation for PowerShell

Deixis dictates into PowerShell on one key — the prompt, the script, the commit message. Speech recognition on your own device, no account, free.

Voice dictation for Obsidian

Deixis dictates into Obsidian on one key, with no plugin to install. Speech recognition on your own device, and notes that are Markdown files you own.

Dictation for Jira

Deixis dictates Jira tickets on one key. Narrate a bug while you grab the screen, get one note with the picture in it, then file it from a button.

Dictation for Slack

Deixis dictates into Slack on one key — channel replies, threads, DMs and canvases. Speech recognition on your own device, no account, free.

Dictation for Microsoft Teams

Deixis dictates into Microsoft Teams on one key, and records and transcribes your calls on your own machine. No bot in the call, no account, free.

Dictation for Outlook

Deixis dictates into Outlook on one key — subject lines punctuated as subject lines, bodies as prose. Speech recognition on your device, 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.

The Deixis panel tethered to the caret in a code editor, listening — 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.

A finished free-mode note with two captured references interleaved with the narration — 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.

A frozen screen with a dashed selection, numbered steps, an arrow and a pixelated patch — 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.

The page Deixis writes for a shared recording: a short link, a title, a summary and the video — 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.

A meeting transcript with timestamps and named speakers, and a level meter — 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.

A custom button definition, a webhook delivery and the vocabulary packs — 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.

Two keycaps, Ctrl and Win, held down and lit teal from underneath.

Hold a key. Speak. Keep working.

Deixis is free, needs no account, and runs on your own device.

Download Deixis for Windows or Mac Free, forever

v1.2.2 · 64‑bit Windows 10/11 · macOS 13 on Apple silicon · 51 MB · nothing else to install