yazses is an open-source, cross-platform tool for local, offline voice dictation on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It provides a hold-to-talk interface for speech-to-text conversion, prioritizing privacy and accessibility by running entirely on the user's device without cloud dependencies.
In the Voice, TTS & speech space, yazses takes a focused approach. It focuses on enabling private, offline voice dictation and speech-to-text on desktop platforms without cloud services. It is built as an open-source project for users needing private offline speech-to-text. yazses is open source under the Apache-2.0 license. The product ships for the web, the command line, Linux, macOS, and Windows, and it can be self-hosted.
yazses first shipped in 2026. Development happens publicly on GitHub with 26 commits in the last 90 days. PulseGate's similarity index finds few close equivalents — yazses occupies a relatively distinct niche. Key capabilities include voice dictation, offline mode, and hold-to-talk.
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