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What people use YazSes for

YazSes is one program — hold a key, speak, release, and your words are typed into whatever app has focus, transcribed entirely on your own machine. But people arrive at it from very different problems.

These pages start from the problem, not the feature list. Each one explains whether YazSes actually solves it, what to turn on, and — honestly — where it falls short.

  • Voice typing on Linux

    Dictation that works on both X11 and Wayland, in any application, with no cloud service behind it.

    Voice dictation on Linux

  • Dictation on Wayland

    Wayland blocks apps from typing into each other, which silently breaks most dictation tools. How YazSes gets around it on GNOME, KDE, sway and Hyprland.

    Voice dictation on Wayland

  • Confidential & offline work

    When the audio legally or practically cannot be uploaded — clinical notes, legal work, classified or air-gapped machines.

    Private offline dictation

  • Writing code by voice

    Spoken symbols, cased identifiers, LaTeX maths, and voice-driven git — with a safety gate before anything destructive runs.

    Voice coding

  • Controlling the computer

    Undo, save, jump to a line, run the tests, or fire a multi-step macro — with the same key that types your words.

    Voice commands & macros

  • RSI & hands-free access

    For repetitive strain injury, motor impairment, dysfluent speech, or eyes-free use — including non-keyboard triggers.

    Accessibility & RSI

  • Transcribing recordings

    Turn an existing audio or video file into text, with speaker labels, without uploading it anywhere.

    Offline transcription

  • Meetings & minutes

    Record a whole meeting hands-free and get a speaker-labelled transcript — and optional minutes — without a bot joining the call.

    Offline meeting notes

  • Dictating to a remote server

    Speak into your laptop mic; the text is typed on the machine you are SSH'd into.

    Dictation over SSH

  • More than one language

    Dictating in a non-English language, or naturally mixing two languages in one sentence.

    Multilingual dictation

The common thread

Every use case above is served by the same install and the same locally downloaded model. Nothing on this site requires an account, an API key, a subscription, or a network connection after install.

If you are comparing YazSes against Dragon, Talon, Wispr Flow, nerd-dictation or cloud dictation, the comparison page is deliberately honest about which of them wins for which job.

Not sure where to start?

yazses quickstart   # the three steps to get dictating, tailored to your machine

See also the FAQ and the install guide for your platform.