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Plume

Floating typing assistant for Windows. Sits as a transparent overlay above your active window, listens via UI Automation, and serves up smart suggestions — spelling corrections, AI next-word predictions, translation,…

  • Completely free
  • Windows
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Features described in its GitHub repository: voice input and commands, hardware acceleration.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Floating typing assistant for Windows with voice-to-text dictation. Plume sits as a transparent overlay above your active window, listens via UI Automation (no keyloggers), serves up smart suggestions —…” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “| Voice Dictation | Speech-to-text via whisper.cpp (CPU/CUDA/Vulkan).” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Plume is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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