Windows software

Eqho

Name: Eqho
Author: damt.xyz

damt.Eqho v0.6.9

Free, offline voice-to-text dictation. Press a hotkey, speak, and your words appear in any app — 100% local, powered by Whisper.

About this app

Eqho is an always-on dictation app that lives in your system tray. Press a global hotkey (default Alt+Q), speak naturally, and the transcribed text is typed into whatever application is focused. Speech recognition runs entirely on your machine via OpenAI's Whisper models (faster-whisper/CTranslate2) — no cloud, no account, no API keys. GPU-accelerated on NVIDIA hardware with automatic CPU fallback. Includes a live transcription overlay, searchable local history, custom vocabulary, voice commands, and text replacements.

Install with Winget

Command line

PS> winget install --id damt.Eqho -e

Official manifest sources

Downloads for version 0.6.9

External links ↗

Installer	Details	SHA-256	Download
x64 github.com	inno	`B8B69E97639C752F3E290D5039D6F90CC9DD24FB87785B0F11DF7CEA6006F252`	Download

Package information

Version: 0.6.9
Publisher: damt.xyz ↗
License: AGPL-3.0 ↗
Available versions: 1

Dependencies

No dependency information in this manifest.

Before you download

Links come from the Winget manifest and open external publisher infrastructure. Verify the publisher and checksum before running a file.

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