Software · AI chatbots & assistants

Talk DAT!

Free dictation for Windows. Hold a key, talk, and the text appears where you're typing. Speech recognition runs on your PC.

Completely free
Windows and macOS
Open source
No account

Official website

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
License: Apache-2.0 — Open source (permissive)confirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Account required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Watermark: Not applicable
Ads: not documented
Platforms: Windows and macOSEstablished by macOS: Unspecified source · Windows: Unspecified source, Winget
Publisher: Knight AI+AV
Latest version: 0.4.175-beta
Source code: github.com/knight-ai-av/talk-dat-releases

Overview

Talk DAT! is a speech-to-text program, available on Windows and macOS.

Features described in its GitHub repository, on its official website and in its Winget manifest: voice input and commands, offline use.

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

“Free, open-source dictation for Windows and Mac.” — official website, 10 November 2026
“Free, open-source dictation for Windows and Mac.” — official website, 10 November 2026
“Speech recognition runs on your computer with NVIDIA Parakeet by default and works offline after a one-time model download.” — Winget, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Talk DAT! is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (Apache-2.0) 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) — 10 November 2026
Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) — 10 November 2026
Last technical check: 10 November 2026
Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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