Clinidict

Speak the way you actually speak. Englishहिंदीमराठीதமிழ்বাংলাతెలుగుಕನ್ನಡമലയാളംગુજરાતીਪੰਜਾਬੀاردو

Medical dictation that hears Indian doctors.

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Your audio is deleted the moment it's transcribed.

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Dictation tools don't hear us

Speech models are trained mostly on American English. On Indian-accented English, published error rates run 5 to 43 points worse. In a clinical note that is not a rounding error.

They've never heard of Ecosprin

No international model knows Storvas, Telma or Dytor. Clinidict checks every drug name against an Indian formulary in your specialty — and says when it isn't sure rather than guessing.

And they keep your patients' data

No account. No database. No note history. Your audio is transcribed and deleted immediately. Close the tab and the note is gone.

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Recording

Why there is no text here

Reading your own words while speaking competes for the same language processing, and seeing an error mid-sentence pulls you into fixing it. Dictate as you would to a colleague — the meter confirms you are being heard. The note appears when you stop.

Preparing your note usually 20–45 seconds
  1. Recording captured
  2. Uploading
  3. Transcribing
  4. Checking against formulary
  5. Cleaning up
Transcript

Click anywhere to edit · editing a flagged word clears its flag

Microphone test nothing is recorded

Say a sentence at your normal dictating volume.

A weak or distant microphone is the commonest cause of a poor transcript, and it is invisible unless you check. Aim for the bar to reach two-thirds on normal speech.

About who built this, and why it costs nothing

Who made this

Clinidict is built and paid for by Dr. Kunal Ajay Patankar, an interventional cardiologist in Mumbai. One clinician, not a company.

Why it exists

As a cardiology fellow I spent hours every week on documentation — time that came directly out of time with patients. The dictation tools that existed were trained on American clinical speech. They did not hear Indian doctors, they had never heard of Ecosprin, and none of them coped with a sentence that starts in Hindi and ends in English.

Clinidict is the tool I wanted: it hears how we actually speak, it knows the drugs we actually prescribe, and it flags what it is unsure of instead of guessing.

Why it is free, and who pays

I pay for it myself. There is no company behind Clinidict, no investor, and nothing is sold — not advertising, not data, not a paid tier. Transcription costs a few rupees per note and I cover it.

If that ever stops being sustainable, this page will say so before anything changes. You will not find out from a paywall.

What happens to what you dictate

Your audio is transcribed and deleted immediately — the file and the processing job both. The note lives only in this browser tab; refresh and it is gone. There is no account, no patient database and no note history. We retain only privacy-safe operational counts such as recording duration and service cost; full detail is on the privacy page.

What this is not

Clinidict is a typing aid. It is not a medical device, it does not diagnose, and it does not check your clinical reasoning. Everything it produces is a draft you are responsible for reading. It flags what it is uncertain about precisely because it expects to be wrong sometimes — and a flag you ignore is worse than no flag at all.

Getting in touch

Bugs, a word it keeps mishearing, a drug it does not know, or a specialty you would like added — all of it is useful, and most improvements so far came from exactly that.

drkunalpatankar@gmail.com · drkp.cc/contact

Privacy what actually happens to your audio

Where your audio goes

Recording happens in your browser. When you press stop, the audio is sent to a specialist speech-recognition service, transcribed, and deleted immediately — both the audio file and the processing job. Clinidict does not retain the audio.

We do not claim your audio is never transmitted. It is: cloud transcription requires it. What we can promise is that it is not retained.

What we never do

No account. No patient database. No note history. No analytics on your note contents. The transcript exists only in this browser tab — refresh the page and it is gone, which is why we warn you before you leave.

What operational activity we measure

Clinidict keeps a small first-party operational record so its owner can understand usage, reliability and cost. It can include page views; whether a recording started and completed; exact audio duration; dictation or consultation mode; selected specialty; aggregate spoken-language counts; model and token usage; approximate country, region or city when a trusted hosting signal is available; coarse device/browser type; and the referring website's host.

It never includes audio, transcript or note text, prompts, model responses, patient identity, cookies or a full referring URL. A full network address is not retained: the server transforms it in memory into a masked network and a non-reversible identifier that rotates monthly. Location from an internet address is approximate and may be unavailable.

Activity metadata is retained for 90 days, model-cost records for 13 months and daily aggregate totals for 24 months. Clinidict does not load a third-party analytics SDK or send addresses to a free geolocation service.

What the language model does

Two passes run over the transcript text. Neither one ever sees the audio.

The first tidies up: it may remove fillers, fix an obviously mis-transcribed word, and mark section headings. The second reorganises that note into the structured note you are shown — complaints, history, procedure, plan — and every line it writes must name the sentences it came from.

Both are checked in code before anything reaches your screen. A line that cites nothing is dropped, because that is something nobody said. A line carrying a number that is absent from the sentence it cites is dropped too, so no dose, vital or measurement is ever changed, moved, or attached to something it did not belong to. Anything the second pass could not place is shown to you rather than quietly discarded.

Recording a consultation — not yet available

We are building a second mode that records a whole doctor–patient conversation and writes the note from it. It is not on this site, and nothing here records a patient today.

This section is published before the feature exists, because recording a patient is a different act from a doctor dictating, and you should be able to read what it will do before it does it.

When it arrives: recording cannot start until the doctor confirms the patient has been told and has agreed, and the screen shows the patient that recording is in progress. The audio is transcribed and deleted exactly as described above — the patient's voice is not kept, and no recording is stored anywhere. Voices are separated mechanically and the doctor confirms which one is theirs; no model guesses who is who. The note names the sentence behind every line, and anything high-consequence it leaves out is surfaced rather than dropped.

If any of that changes before it ships, this page changes first.

Sharing

Copy and WhatsApp send whatever is on your screen to wherever you choose. That is your decision and outside our control — which is why patient names are replaced with [PATIENT] by default before sharing.

Terms of use plain English, no small print

What Clinidict is

A dictation aid. It turns your speech into text and tidies the result. It is not a medical device, not a diagnostic tool, and not clinical decision support. It does not read, interpret or advise on anything.

The note is yours, and so is the responsibility

Speech recognition makes mistakes, and this one will too — most often on drug names, patient names and numbers. That is exactly why uncertain words are flagged rather than quietly corrected, and why doses are never altered automatically.

You must read every note before you use it. Nothing here replaces your own judgement, and the clinical and legal responsibility for what ends up in a patient's record remains entirely yours.

No warranty

Clinidict is provided free and as-is, with no guarantee of accuracy, availability or fitness for any particular purpose. It may be slow, unavailable, or wrong. To the extent the law allows, we accept no liability for any loss arising from its use — including from an error in a transcript you did not check.

Fair use

Use it for clinical dictation. Do not use it to process audio you have no right to record, to attempt to overload or reverse-engineer the service, or to dictate anything unlawful. We may withdraw access if the service is abused, and may change or discontinue it at any time.

Patient consent is your call

Recording a consultation, and sharing any note that leaves this page, are decisions only you can make and only you can be accountable for. Patient names are replaced with [PATIENT] before sharing by default — but once a note is copied or sent, where it goes is outside our control.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of India, with courts in Mumbai having jurisdiction.