Fast, private voice dictation — local offline transcription that pastes anywhere

Fast, private voice dictation — local offline transcription that pastes anywhere targets a $9.6B = 80M knowledge workers × $120 ACV total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 12% YoY growth in AI-assisted productivity and speech services (industry analyst synthesis: Gartner/IDC trend signals).

Key trends driving demand: Edge ML improvements — smaller quantized speech models and CoreML optimizations make accurate on-device transcription feasible, enabling offline-first products.; Privacy and data residency — more users and companies are demanding local processing options to avoid sending sensitive audio to the cloud.; Hybrid and asynchronous work — increased meeting volume and remote collaboration drive demand for fast summaries and note capture that reduce meeting overhead.; Creator and prosumer tooling growth — creators want quick ways to convert voice into publishable text and captions without heavy editing workflows..