Open Source Voice Dictation Platform

Your Personal Voice Interface for Any App

An open-source platform for AI voice dictation that you can customize and personalize to your exact needs. Choose your models, write your prompts, make it yours.

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Tambourine voice dictation demo

The Foundation of Voice Interfaces

Tambourine isn't a locked-down app. It's infrastructure you can build on to create exactly the voice experience you need.

Choose Your Models

Pick the STT and LLM that work for you. Use cloud providers or run fully local with Whisper and Ollama.

Write Your Prompts

Customize how your speech gets formatted. Add your own rules, adjust the tone, define how punctuation works.

Build Your Features

Implement features like backtracking corrections and list formatting your way. The logic is in prompts you control.

Examples of Personalization

These features ship by default, but they're implemented in customizable prompts. Modify them, extend them, or build your own.

Personal Dictionary

Teach it technical terms, names, and jargon specific to your work.

"ant row pic" → Anthropic

Backtrack Corrections

Say "actually" or "scratch that" to correct mistakes as you speak.

"at 2 actually 3" → at 3

Smart List Formatting

Automatically format lists.

"one eggs two milk" → 1. Eggs 2. Milk

Your Own Ideas

The prompts and logic are yours to modify. Build what you need.

Edit prompts in Settings → Prompts

Context-Awareness

Tmabourine will access surrounding context to make dictation smarter.

App-Dependent Formatting

Automatically adapt to the app you're in. Emails get salutations, code editors get syntax-aware output.

Selection Commands

Highlight text and say "make this more formal" or "translate to Spanish" to transform it in place.

Voice Shortcuts

Create custom triggers like "insert meeting link" that expand to frequently used text.

Choose How to Run Tambourine

Run it yourself for free, or let us handle the infrastructure.

Available Now

Self-Host

Run the open source code yourself. Full control, completely free, requires some setup.

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Hosted Service

We run the infrastructure for you. No setup, no fuss, just download and start dictating.

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AGPL-3.0 License

Built in the Open

Tambourine is fully open source. Contribute features, report bugs, or fork it and build something new. The platform is yours.