Hold-to-talk.
Press and hold Ctrl+Fn on Mac, Ctrl+Win on Windows. Speak. Release.
Capture
The dictation loop.
Hotkeys, HUD, hands-free toggle.
The plumbing that gets your voice into Auris.
The plumbing that gets your voice into Auris.
Hands-free toggle.
Tap to start, tap to stop. Or stay quiet and auto-stop kicks in.
Dictation HUD.
A small indicator pulses with your mic level.
Click-through, multi-monitor aware.
Polish
Raw transcript to clean text.
One dictation. Four polishing modes.
Click a mode to see what the same words become.
Click a mode to see what the same words become.
You said
so basically what i'm trying to say is we should probably ship by friday um yeah and like loop in whoever needs to be ready by thursday
Auris polished
We should aim to ship by Friday. Please coordinate with the team to ensure all dependencies are resolved by EOD Thursday.
Plus: choice of model (Anthropic, OpenAI, Groq, Ollama), five output formats, role-break guard, polish bench for testing settings on pasted text.
Remove fillers.
Strip "um, uh, like, you know" from every transcript automatically.
Fix grammar + punctuation.
Subject-verb agreement, missing commas, run-on sentences.
Expand contractions.
"Don't" becomes "do not" when you want a formal register.
Auto-capitalize.
First letter of every sentence. No thinking required.
Remove em-dashes.
No em-dashes anywhere. Periods and commas only.
Auto-format.
Code blocks, lists, and links formatted on the fly.
Vocabulary
Words it learns.
Dictionaries, snippets, domain packs, brand voices.
Auris speaks your dialect.
Auris speaks your dialect.
Custom dictionary.
Add words manually, or
let Auris learn from your edits.
Auto-learn.
Fix a word in any app within five minutes;
Auris adds the correction.
Snippets.
Spoken triggers expand to longer text.
Variables for date, time, clipboard.
Domain Profiles.
Healthcare, Legal, Finance, SEO, Tech, YouTube. Create your own, or pin one as default.
Brand voices.
Upload a Markdown style guide.
Switch between voices per project.
Plain-text files.
Dictionary and snippets are files on your machine.
Edit them directly if you want.
App-aware
Different apps, different polish.
A casual Slack message and a board update email shouldn't sound the same. Auris ships with six app-aware mode presets.
Default.
The global slider settings apply. Most apps you don't override end up here.
Formal.
Formality and assertiveness pushed up. Email clients, document editors, board updates.
Casual.
Formality pushed down. Chat apps: Slack, Discord, Messages.
Minimal.
Only fixes typos and grammar. Leaves your phrasing alone.
Code.
Preserves quotes and brackets. Doesn't auto-capitalize identifiers. Terminals and editors.
Email.
Full sentences, signature-ready phrasing. Mail, Outlook, Gmail.
Assign any mode to any app. Override with custom rules for anything specific.
Recall
Past dictations, measured.
No cloud, no telemetry.
Your history is a local file you can search, edit, and re-polish.
Your history is a local file you can search, edit, and re-polish.
History · Inline editing · Range filters · Top-apps chart · Backend latency. Every dictation goes to history.jsonl in your Auris folder. Search it, edit it, delete the file to wipe history.
Workspace
Open the folder.
Read the files.
Memos are real .md files. History is one .jsonl. Dictionary is plain .json. Auris owns nothing. Open them in any editor, sync them via Dropbox or git, version them however you like.
20260516-141022-a7f3.md
Migration recapSpoke through what happened with the auth migration so we have a clean record before the team retro on Thursday.What we coveredToken validation order was the root causeCaught it in staging, never hit productionTwo days lost, no customer impactDecisionsAdd an integration test for the validation orderPair on the next migration end-to-endNext stepsWrite the test todaySchedule the next migration window for Friday
memos/*.md
One Markdown file per memo.
Open in Obsidian, VS Code, iA Writer, Word, Notion, or anything else that handles Markdown. Sync your memos/ folder via Dropbox, iCloud, or git.
history.jsonl
Every dictation, one line each.
Plain newline-delimited JSON. Grep it. Pipe it to jq. Audit your own usage. Delete the file to wipe history, or trim it line-by-line.
dictionary.json
Plain JSON. Edit by hand.
Your custom vocabulary, snippets, and auto-learned corrections live here. Version it with your dotfiles, share it across machines, fork it for a teammate.
Privacy
Flip per session.
Redact patterns, force offline, audit the network, archive or delete.
Pattern redaction.
Email, phone, SSN, credit card.
Add your own regex.
Force offline mode.
One toggle. No cloud calls, regardless of config.
Data flow board.
Live view of what travels where with your current settings.
Network audit log.
Every outbound call, with destination and bytes.
Export everything.
One-click archive of your full data set.
Wipe everything.
One-click destructive reset. No undo.
Backends
Bring your own key. Or run it local.
No vendor lock-in. Pick the AI that polishes your dictation; pick the engine that transcribes it. Switch in Settings without restart.
| Provider | Hosting | Use for | Default model | Cost/hr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | cloud | polish | claude-haiku-4-5 | $0.12 |
| OpenAI | cloud | polish | gpt-5.4-mini | $0.02 |
| Groq | cloud | polish + STT | llama-3.3-70b · whisper-large-v3-turbo | $0.05 |
| Ollama | local | polish | any model you've pulled | $0 |
| Whisper Local | local | STT | base (74 MB) up to large-v3 (1.55 GB) | $0 |
Auris talks to anything that speaks an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API.
Your keys, your provider, your bill.
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