Handy is an amazing cross-platform app for dictation from the author. There are other awesome open-source dictation tools as well like native macOS ones. You do not need SaaS subscription in this day and age for transcription.

I maintain this list of all the best open-source ones in this awesome-style GitHub repo. People looking for open-source dictation tools, hope you find something that works for you here:

https://github.com/primaprashant/awesome-voice-typing

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rubidium 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Any that also support translation? How much harder/ easier of a problem is local translation compared to transcription?

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primaprashant 10 hours ago | parent [-]

If you're talking about translated text, then that should be super easy. Most of these dictation tool support post-processing with LLM to remove filler words, fix punctuation, etc. I'd imagine you can change the system prompt for the post-processing step to do the translation instead, and you'd get translated text.

	▲	rubidium 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yea I’m looking local hosted transcription and translation with diarization of 2 (or more ) speakers. This is to speed up collaborative technical work between two teams who speak different languages where want all local processing (assume no cloud access).