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Table of Contents

• ⬇️ Download
• 🔮 Overview
• ✨ Features
• 🔰 Tech Stack
• 🤗 Contributing
• 🎗 License

⬇️ Download

🔮 Overview

Local-first AI Dictation app.

Amical is an open source AI-powered dictation and note-taking app that runs entirely on your machine. Powered by Whisper for speech-to-text and open source LLMs for intelligent processing, Amical gives you the power of AI dictation with complete privacy.

Context-aware dictation that adapts to what you're doing: drafting an email, chatting on Discord, writing prompts in your IDE, or messaging friends. Amical detects the active app and formats your speech accordingly.

✨ Features

✔︎ - Done, ◑ - In Progress, ◯ - Planned

🚀 Super-fast dictation with AI-enhanced accuracy ✔︎

🧠 Context-aware speech-to-text based on the active app ✔︎

📒 Smart voice notes → summaries, tasks, structured notes ◑

🔌 MCP integration → voice commands that control your apps ◯

🎙️ Real-time meeting transcription (mic + system audio) ◯

🔧 Extensible via hotkeys, voice macros, custom workflows ✔︎

🔐 Privacy-first: works offline, one click setup of local models in-app ✔︎

🪟 Floating widget for frictionless start/stop with custom hotkeys ✔︎

🔰 Tech Stack

• 🎤 Whisper
• 🦙 Ollama
• 🧑‍💻 Typescript
• 🖥️ Electron
• ☘️ Next.js
• 🎨 TailwindCSS
• 🧑🏼‍🎨 Shadcn
• 🔒 Better-Auth
• 🧘‍♂️ Zod
• 🐞 Jest
• 📚 Fumadocs
• 🌀 Turborepo

🤗 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read the Contributing Guide to get started.

• 💡 Contributing Guide: Learn about our contribution process and coding standards.
• 🐛 Report an Issue: Found a bug? Let us know!
• 💬 Start a Discussion: Have ideas or suggestions? We'd love to hear from you.

🎗 License

Released under MIT.