Solace Dictate

Turn speech into text in your Windows apps with a hotkey and local speech models. Recognition runs on your PC; optional cloud cleanup has separate privacy settings. No subscription.

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$26.68 once. Buy it once, keep it: no subscription, no automatic renewal, no account.

Why buy from us

• Push-to-talk hotkey that types into any focused app
• A choice of local speech models, downloaded from the SolaceSoftware mirror with SHA-256 checks
• No account, no subscription, no auto-updater; updates come from this page
• Windows ZIP; verify the published SHA-256 before use
• One-time price, $26.68 USD. No subscription and no automatic renewal.
• Runs on your own Windows PC.
• We publish the size and SHA-256 of the exact ZIP you download, so you can check it.

The idea

Many popular dictation tools charge monthly and process your audio in the cloud. Solace Dictate runs the speech models on your PC, for a one-time price.

Designed for Windows users who want push-to-talk dictation without a subscription or cloud account.

About this product

Subscription dictation tools lock you into a monthly fee and send your voice to someone else's cloud. Switching away usually means losing your hotkeys, your vocabulary and the privacy you expected.

Solace Dictate is a Windows tray app that turns speech into typed text on your PC. Hold a hotkey, talk, and the words land in whatever window you were using. It uses local speech models that run entirely on your PC; you pick which ones to download from the SolaceSoftware mirror, and each file is checked against a published SHA-256. There is no account, no telemetry and no auto-updater—new builds come from this product page.

System and package

• Windows 10 or Windows 11, 64-bit, with current updates and a CPU that supports AVX2
• Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime (built into Windows 11 and current Windows 10)
• Disk space for the models you choose (a few hundred MB to several GB each)
• No installer or administrator rights needed for the app ZIP; verify the published SHA-256

Install

Unzip the folder anywhere and run SolaceDictate.exe; it starts in the system tray.

Download at least one speech model from inside the app (served from the SolaceSoftware mirror). Your settings live under the Solace Dictate app data folder; quit from the tray before deleting the app folder.

First launch on Windows

The app isn’t code-signed yet, so the first time you open it Windows may show “Windows protected your PC.” Click More info, then Run anyway. After you buy, you can check the ZIP against the SHA-256 on this page. Questions: solacesoftware@smilingface.cloud

Published package checksum

After you buy, you can check that your download is exactly this file: same name, same size, same SHA-256.

• File: Solace-Dictate-0.9.8-solace.2-Windows-x64.zip
• Size: 18796994 bytes
• SHA-256: 9ba1007d7886d45539b9c87f7910595cbe0c22d1a0dd45af2855f717c1ef9fa8

Common questions

Does it need the internet? Recognition runs on your PC. The speech models download separately from the SolaceSoftware mirror, with SHA-256 checks. Optional cloud cleanup has its own privacy settings.

What do I need? Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit, with current updates and a CPU that supports AVX2; the Edge WebView2 Runtime; disk space for the models you choose (a few hundred MB to several GB each).

Windows says “Windows protected your PC”. The app isn’t code-signed yet, so the first time you open it Windows may show that screen. Click More info, then Run anyway. After you buy, you can check the ZIP against the SHA-256 on this page.