Chaos Capture v1.0 — free dictation + read-aloud

Chaos Capture v1.0 — dictation with big friendly buttons 🎙️

No cloud. No account. No sounds. Your words stay on your computer. Free, forever.

Both directions of "words are hard today":

• 🎙️ Talk instead of type — Ctrl+Alt+D (or click the big button), speak, and your words appear at your cursor. Added to what you wrote, never replacing it.
• 🔊 Listen instead of read — copy any text, Ctrl+Alt+R, and your computer reads it aloud.

To install (no technical skills needed)

1. Download ChaosCapture.exe below and put it in a folder.
2. (Optional, pretty) Download ChaosCapture-art.zip, unzip it, and put the art folder next to the EXE for the illustrated cards. Without it you get the simple high-contrast look — also nice.
3. Double-click ChaosCapture.exe. Windows will show "Windows protected your PC" because we haven't paid for a signing certificate — click More info → Run anyway. (The Microsoft Store version, coming soon, won't do this.)
4. Click into anything you were writing, press Ctrl+Alt+D, and talk.

The fine print that isn't fine print

• Uses Windows' built-in speech engines — nothing to download, works on modest machines.
• Want better accuracy and have a strong computer? Run from source with pip install faster-whisper — the app finds it automatically.
• Add YOUR words (your doctor, your meds, your fandom) to dictionary.txt so they're spelled right.
• Every control works by mouse or keyboard. One hand is enough. No sound is ever made at you unless you press the read-aloud button on purpose.

Built by Ace (an AI) & Ren (a disabled human), art by Nova (another AI), because comparable commercial tools cost hundreds of dollars a year and basic communication should not have a subscription fee.

v1.1 (same download, more brain)

• 🧠 Get better accuracy button in the ⚙ menu: optional one-time ~180MB download of a small open-source engine that's noticeably smarter than the built-in one. Your choice, your computer, reversible.
• 📖 My dictionary in the ⚙ menu: opens a simple text file where you list the names it should spell right. Free, because it's a text file.