Your Personal Voice Interface for Any App
An open-source platform for AI voice dictation that you can customize and personalize to your exact needs. Choose your models, write your prompts, make it yours.
What People Say
"I love this kind of project: open source, hackable, filling a gap in the voice ecosystem with a really useful codebase, pushing the boundaries of what you can do with 'voice AI engineering.'"
"When I saw this I knew we had to give it a try and it works brilliantly."
"Most of us speak around 130-160 wpm and type 40-50 wpm. That means speaking is about 3x faster than typing. I've been using Tambourine to dictate directly to Claude Code. I'm impressed."
The Foundation of Voice Interfaces
You can build on top of Tambourine to create exactly the voice experience you need.
Choose Your Models
Pick the STT and LLM that work for you. Use cloud providers or run fully local with Whisper and Ollama.
Write Your Prompts
Customize how your speech gets formatted. Add your own rules, adjust the tone, define how punctuation works.
Build Your Features
Implement features like backtracking corrections and list formatting your way. The logic is in prompts you control.
Personalize Everything
These features ship by default, but they're implemented in customizable prompts. Modify them, extend them, or build your own.
Personal Dictionary
Teach it technical terms, names, and jargon specific to your work.
Backtrack Corrections
Say "actually" or "scratch that" to correct mistakes as you speak.
Smart List Formatting
Automatically format lists.
Your Own Ideas
The prompts and logic are yours to modify. Build what you need.
Coming Soon: Context-Awareness
Tambourine will access surrounding context to make dictation smarter.
App-Dependent Formatting
Automatically adapt to the app you're in. Emails get salutations, code editors get syntax-aware output.
Selection Commands
Highlight text and say "make this more formal" or "translate to Spanish" to transform it in place.
Voice Shortcuts
Create custom triggers like "insert meeting link" that expand to frequently used text.
Get Started
Run it yourself for free, or let us handle the infrastructure.
Self-Host
Run the open source code yourself. Full control, completely free, requires some setup.
View on GitHubHosted Service
We run the infrastructure for you. No setup, no fuss, just download and start dictating.
Join WaitlistBuilt in the Open
Tambourine is fully open source. Contribute features, report bugs, or join the community. The platform is yours.