How to Set Up Diction: The Self-Hosted Speech-to-Text Alternative to Wispr Flow

This article is about getting your own private speech-to-text on your iPhone. Tap a key, speak, watch the words land in whatever app you're in. No cloud in the middle, no subscription, no company on the other end reading what you said. The keyboard is Diction . This post is the full setup, start to finish, blank machine to working dictation in under thirty minutes. I built the server side for myself. I talk to my AI agents all day. Claude in the terminal, my Telegram bot OpenClaw , a handful of