Augnito: Augnito is a voice AI platform for clinical documentation, offering medical speech-to-text dictation and an ambient AI scribe that turns clinician-patient conversations into structured notes. Handy: Handy is a free, open-source, cross-platform push-to-talk app that transcribes your speech to text completely offline and pastes it into any text field. The right pick comes down to team size, budget, and the workflows you want to automate.
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Shortlist Augnito when clinicians dictating reports, discharge summaries, and imaging notes hands-free matters most, and Handy when privacy-sensitive voice-to-text where audio must stay on-device matters most. Try them side by side on real calls before deciding — needs vary by team.
Augnito is a voice AI platform for clinical documentation, offering medical speech-to-text dictation and an ambient AI scribe that turns clinician-patient conversations into structured notes.
Handy is a free, open-source, cross-platform push-to-talk app that transcribes your speech to text completely offline and pastes it into any text field.
Augnito is a healthcare voice AI company (founded 2020, co-developed with Scribetech) focused on clinical documentation. Its two main products are Augnito Spectra, a medical speech-to-text engine for real-time dictation and voice commands, and Augnito Omni, an ambient AI scribe that captures clinician-patient conversations and structures them into EMR-ready notes such as SOAP notes. Capture is microphone-based: clinicians dictate directly, or Omni listens ambiently to natural conversation, with no voice-profile training required. The vendor states accent-agnostic recognition across 55+ clinical specialties, with Omni supporting 37+ languages. It is delivered as cloud-based SaaS and runs on desktop workstations, a mobile app, and a Chrome browser extension, with an on-premises deployment option for Spectra. Augnito integrates with third-party EMR/EHR, RIS, and PACS systems (including Epic and Cerner) without requiring native integration, and includes a Smart Editor plus customizable templates. It holds HIPAA, SOC 2 Type II, and ISO 27001 certifications. It is intended for doctors, radiologists, GPs, nurses, surgeons, and healthcare enterprises.
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Handy is a free, open-source desktop application that turns your voice into text completely offline, with no audio ever leaving your computer. You press a configurable keyboard shortcut, speak, and release (push-to-talk), or use a toggle mode to start and stop; Handy transcribes what you said and automatically pastes the result into whatever text field is active. Because it runs entirely on-device, it is built for privacy-conscious users who want dictation without cloud uploads or subscriptions. Under the hood it is built with Tauri (a Rust backend with a React/TypeScript frontend) and supports multiple local speech-recognition models, including OpenAI's Whisper variants with GPU acceleration and the CPU-friendly Parakeet V3 model with automatic language detection. Silero Voice Activity Detection filters out silence so only speech is processed. Handy runs on macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon), Windows, and Linux, and is released under the MIT license. It positions itself as an accessible, extensible alternative to paid dictation tools, and is best suited for hands-free typing rather than recording multi-party meetings.
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Augnito is custom pricing (contact sales); Handy is open source (open source). Always confirm current pricing on each vendor's site before buying.
| Feature | Augnito | Handy |
|---|---|---|
| Core capability | Medical speech-to-text dictation with voice commands (Augnito Spectra) | Push-to-talk and toggle dictation modes with a configurable global keyboard shortcut |
| Standout feature | Ambient AI scribe that structures clinician-patient conversations into notes (Augnito Omni) | Fully offline, on-device transcription with no cloud uploads |
| Team usage | Accent-agnostic recognition with no voice-profile training, across 55+ clinical specialties | Multiple local speech models including Whisper (GPU-accelerated) and Parakeet V3 (CPU, auto language detection) |
| Integrations | Multilingual ambient capture supporting 37+ languages | Silero Voice Activity Detection to filter silence and process only speech |
| Languages & capture | Works with third-party EMR/EHR, RIS, and PACS without native integration | Automatically pastes transcribed text into any active application text field |
| Best-fit workflow | Customizable templates and SOAP-note formats with a built-in Smart Editor | Cross-platform desktop app (macOS, Windows, Linux) built with Tauri |
Augnito
Choose Augnito if you need clinicians dictating reports, discharge summaries, and imaging notes hands-free — strengths include specialized for healthcare with broad emr/ehr/ris/pacs compatibility and no native integration required.
Handy
Choose Handy if you need hands-free dictation into emails, documents, chat apps, and code editors — strengths include completely free, open-source (mit) with no subscription or paywall.
Augnito
Handy
It depends on your workflow. Augnito is strong for clinicians dictating reports, discharge summaries, and imaging notes hands-free, while Handy is strong for hands-free dictation into emails, documents, chat apps, and code editors. Both transcribe and summarize meetings.
Augnito is custom pricing and Handy is open source. Check each vendor's pricing page for the latest plans and free-tier limits.
Often yes: teams combine tools when one handles capture and another handles analysis.
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