Flunkey
Flunkey is a free, open-source, voice-activated AI assistant for Windows 10 and 11. It turns three hotkeys into a complete voice workflow, so your hands stay on the keyboard and your text appears where you are already working.
Three hotkeys, three jobs
- F8 — Dictate anywhere. Hold F8 and speak. Flunkey transcribes through Groq Whisper Turbo, OpenAI, or Gemini, polishes the grammar, and pastes the result at your cursor. Double-tap for hands-free mode with confirm and cancel controls in the on-screen pill. It works in mail, docs, chat, code editors, and terminals, supports a custom dictionary for names and jargon, and restores your clipboard after every paste.
- F9 — Ask AI. Hold F9 and ask anything. The answer streams into a side overlay with markdown, tables, code copy, and KaTeX math. Continuous mode carries context across follow-ups, with a 30-minute resume window, and your cursor never moves. History is saved locally and searchable.
- F10 — Transform text. Select any text, hold F10, and say the edit you want — "make this formal", "shorten", "translate to German". Release and the selection is replaced in place, with normal undo support. It covers tone, grammar, brevity, and translation, ships with 26 app profiles and code-aware rules, and uses garbage detection to skip no-op rewrites.
Private and free by design
Flunkey needs no accounts and runs no Flunkey servers. Your provider API keys are stored in Windows Credential Manager under the Flunkey service rather than in config files, and the app fails closed if that vault is unavailable. Voice history stays in local AppData until you wipe it. A dashboard, analytics, transcripts, and history give you a quiet paper trail of your voice activity, all stored locally.
Requirements and licensing
You need Windows 10 or 11 64-bit, a microphone, WebView2, and one provider API key from Groq, OpenAI, Gemini, or OpenRouter. Flunkey is MIT-licensed, built with Tauri v2, Rust, and React 19, and free forever — you only pay your own provider usage if your provider bills you. Releases are not yet code-signed, so SmartScreen may show an unknown publisher warning; choose More info, then Run anyway.