openless

Why we included this project

Most dictation tools hand you a raw transcript and call it done. OpenLess instead cleans the speech up as it goes: press and hold a hotkey, talk, and the polished, structured version of what you said lands at the cursor in whatever app you're using. Its AI-prompt mode takes rambling notes and reshapes them into a prompt you can paste straight into ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor. Around that it handles the usual friction: custom style packs to match your writing voice, a dictionary that learns proper nouns and corrections, and streaming insertion with clipboard fallback for apps that block keystrokes. It runs locally on macOS and Windows with bring-your-own ASR and polish providers, so you aren't tied to one vendor. If you dictate emails, messages, or meeting notes and want readable output instead of verbatim speech, this is worth trying.