Lawyers
Dictation software lawyers can trust with client work
Most dictation apps send your audio to cloud servers to be transcribed. For client-confidential material, that is a problem. Quiet Dictation does the speech recognition on your own laptop: your voice is never uploaded, it works with no internet connection, and your dictation history stays on your machine, encrypted. Hold a hotkey, speak, release, and clean text appears in Word, Outlook or whatever you are using.
Your voice never leaves your computer
Speech recognition runs entirely on your laptop. No audio is uploaded, no recordings sit on someone else's server, and there is no third party holding your clients' words.
Works offline, anywhere
On a plane, in court buildings with no signal, behind a firm firewall. After a one-time setup, Quiet Dictation needs no internet connection apart from an occasional licence check.
A dictionary that learns your matter names
Client names, opposing counsel, case names, specialist terms. The personal dictionary learns from your corrections, so the names you dictate every day come out spelled your way.
Meeting transcription, locally
Record and transcribe client meetings and consultations on your own machine. The transcript never passes through a cloud service.
Why cloud dictation is a hard sell for legal work
Popular dictation apps like Wispr Flow and Aqua Voice transcribe your speech on their own servers. That means every settlement discussion, every witness note and every strategy memo passes through infrastructure you do not control, under someone else's retention policy. Even when those companies have good security, many firms' confidentiality obligations and client expectations rule out sending privileged audio to a third party at all.
Quiet Dictation removes the question. There is no cloud mode to audit because there is no cloud mode. The audio stays on your computer, the text lands in your document, and the dictation history is stored locally and encrypted. You can switch history off or delete it at any time.
Built for a dictation-heavy day
- One hotkey works in every app: Word, Outlook, your practice management system, your browser.
- Double-tap the hotkey for hands-free dictation through long letters and briefs.
- Clean, punctuated text without filler words, ready to edit rather than retype.
- Tuned for a wide range of English accents, and tested on South African English.
What it costs
Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial, no credit card needed. After that it is $5 a month, $39 a year, or a $79 lifetime deal at launch. That is roughly a third of the price of the well-known cloud apps, because there are no servers transcribing your voice.
If your firm has specific compliance requirements, run them past your compliance officer. What we can tell you plainly: your audio never leaves your computer, and nothing you dictate is stored in the cloud.
Common questions
Does any client audio leave my computer?+
No. Speech recognition runs on your laptop. The only network traffic is an occasional licence check, which sends nothing you have said or typed.
Does it work in Word and Outlook?+
Yes. Quiet Dictation types wherever your cursor is, in any application: Word, Outlook, practice management systems, web email and more.
Can it handle legal names and terms?+
Yes. The personal dictionary learns from your corrections, and you can add names and terms manually so they are always spelled your way.
Does it work without internet?+
Yes. After a one-time setup download it works fully offline, apart from an occasional licence check.
Try Quiet Dictation free for 14 days
No credit card needed. Your voice never leaves your computer.
Start your free trial