# Coding Challenge #135 - Voice Dictation App

DevFeed: [Coding Challenge #135 - Voice Dictation App](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/coding-challenge-135-voice-dictation-app-29210.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://codingchallenges.substack.com/p/coding-challenge-135-voice-dictation>)

Author: John Crickett

Published: 2026-09-05T08:01:16Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Coding Challenges](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/coding-challenges.md>)

Topics: [Code Challenge](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code-challenge.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [AI Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-development.md>), [Accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/accessibility.md>), [Operating system](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/operating-system.md>)

Tags: [accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/accessibility.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [audio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/audio.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [ui-automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ui-automation.md>), [voice](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/voice.md>)

## AI overview

A Coding Challenge tutorial for building a private voice dictation app that runs entirely on the local computer. It covers audio capture, local speech recognition, text cleanup, spoken formatting commands, custom dictionaries, history, and inserting dictated text into the focused application without network requests.

## Source excerpt

This challenge is to build your own voice dictation app.