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Voicy Speech to Text
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Privacy-focused desktop speech-to-text app for fast, accurate voice dictation in any app or website on a computer.
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One-time purchase: $9.99
Core features
- ✦System-wide dictation activated by a customizable keyboard shortcut
- ✦Claimed 99%+ accuracy across 50+ languages
- ✦Automatic punctuation and grammar cleanup while dictating
- ✦Works inside any desktop app or browser website
- ✦Cross-platform support for Windows, macOS, Ubuntu/Debian, and Fedora
- ✦Privacy-first design where transcripts are not shared or viewed by others
- ✦On-device transcription using CoreML
- ✦Push-to-Talk (Hold key to record, release to transcribe)
- ✦Instant text insertion into any active app
- ✦AI Skills for translation, grammar fixing, and custom prompts
- ✦Support for 25 European languages with auto-detection
- ✦Local history and search for all transcriptions
- ✦Works completely offline without accounts or tracking
Use cases
- →Dictating emails, messages, and documents faster than typing
- →Writing prompts into ChatGPT, Claude, or other AI tools by voice
- →Multilingual dictation for non-English speakers
- →Reducing typing strain for users with disabilities
- →Dictating coding instructions directly into IDEs
- →Real-time translation of spoken words into other languages
- →Hands-free writing and emailing with automated grammar correction
- →Quickly searching through a history of past voice-to-text entries
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