Can I transcribe a lecture with no WiFi?

Yes. Lecture halls with dead WiFi, trains, libraries and data caps do not change anything for Dicta, because the whole pipeline, speech recognition and the AI rewrite, runs on your own laptop rather than a server.

That covers both everyday dictation and long-form transcription of a full recorded lecture, with no word cap or fair-use throttle unlike cloud dictation apps. See Dicta for students for more on why this matters doubly for student hardware and student WiFi.