A modern alternative to Dragon
Dragon proved people want to talk to their computers - decades ago. If you are not ready for its price or its weight, here is the modern, local-first way in.
Respect first
Dragon (by Nuance, now part of Microsoft) is the grandfather of dictation: mature, accurate, deeply customizable, with professional editions used in medicine and law. If you need those specialist vocabularies and have the budget - Dragon earns its keep.
Where MyQuietShadow differs
Most people do not need a professional transcription suite. They need to speak a paragraph into whatever app has focus - the email, the ticket, the AI chat - and get on with their day. That is what MyQuietShadow is built around:
- Modern speech recognition. Built on Whisper-class local models - the same generation of AI behind today's best transcription, running entirely on your machine.
- Any app, zero setup. Double-tap Ctrl and speak. No per-application configuration, no command vocabulary to learn first.
- Light, quiet, out of the way. A tray helper, not a desktop suite.
- Local and private. Your voice is processed on your machine and never uploaded.
- Honest pricing. Dragon's professional editions list in the hundreds of dollars. Our pricing is not final, but early-access users hear it first and get the best terms we will ever offer.
What we will not pretend
MyQuietShadow is in early access - dictation ships first, voice control of the machine follows step by step. Dragon has decades of polish for specialist workflows; we are not claiming feature parity with that. We are claiming a better answer to the question most people actually have: "can I just talk instead of type, everywhere, privately?"
See how it works or the FAQ for the hard questions.