Dictovicto is out: transcription that never phones home

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week3-2026-10-19">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady</a></em></p>

<p>I dictate a lot. Messages to family, notes to myself, things I'd rather say than type. At some point I got curious about what was actually happening when I used a voice

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<p>I wanted a way to transcribe audio and video files without sending anything to the cloud. No OpenAI API key, no monthly bill, no data leaving my machine. So I built player2text

<p>Sending a meeting recording to a hosted transcription service is convenient, but it also creates a data-handling decision before you have even inspected the transcript. For

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