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Keyboard

Speak, and it types. Voice typing for Windows: your words appear in any app as you talk — in real time, in your language, online or fully offline.

Windows Real time Your language

The VoiceKeyboard voice keyboard app for Windows: a brass power panel with a glowing vacuum tube and word counters, the Ctrl+1 hotkey, online or local speech recognition with a credits gauge, a VU meter and a live transcript screen.

Great for vibe coding, prompts for AI chats, emails, chat messages, notes and journaling, documents and reports, code comments and commit messages, translations, and subtitles from videos.

How voice typing works

  1. Press the hotkey

    Start with one shortcut.

  2. Speak

    Say what you want to write.

  3. Text appears

    In the active window, as you speak.

Counters

Watch your words add up

Speaking is several times faster than typing. Over weeks of dictation you literally win back hours, days, even months of work.

Every word you dictate and the typing time it saved roll up on mechanical tape counters, live, as you speak. They even click, if you like.

Voice keyboard features

  • Real-time dictation

    Words appear as you speak.

  • Choose your engine

    Start free with the standard and offline engines — 2,000 words a day. Pro removes the limit and adds Soniox, a premium engine that detects your language as you speak. Soniox recordings can be as long as a meeting or a lecture.

  • Audio, video & links to text

    Transcribed offline, on your PC. Drag files or links onto the FILES screen. Pro opens many at once: several files, a queue of links, timestamps.

  • Words & time-saved counters

    See how many words you dictated and how much typing time you saved — and what is left: words for today on Free, Soniox minutes on Pro.

  • Privacy

    Choose offline engines and your audio never leaves your PC. Online engines send audio to the speech provider only to transcribe it; VoiceKeyboard keeps no recordings. Switch the live transcript screen off if you would rather not see your words on screen.

  • 5 interface languages

    • English
    • Español
    • Русский
    • 日本語
    • हिन्दी

Privacy

Switch the screen off

The live transcript can go dark like an old picture tube. Handy when nobody should read over your shoulder. Your words still land in the window you are typing in.

  • A glowing amber vacuum tube under a perforated nickel hood with a green lens at the right end, on the brass POWER plate.

    Steel hood Pro

  • A glowing amber vacuum tube behind a weathered steel guard fixed with four screws, on the brass POWER plate.

    Steel guard Pro

  • A bare glowing amber vacuum tube held at both ends by brushed brass clamps, on the brass POWER plate.

    Clamps Pro

  • A brass-framed amber vacuum tube with a glowing green magic eye at its right end, on the brass POWER plate.

    Magic eye Pro

  • A glowing amber vacuum tube framed by a knurled oval brass porthole, on the brass POWER plate.

    Porthole Free

Five tubes

Pick your tube

The POWER lamp warms up when you start talking and glows while you dictate. It comes in five styles. Four are Pro, the Porthole is free.

The RECOGNITION panel of VoiceKeyboard: a big slide switch between ONLINE and LOCAL, a green model screen, the credits gauge and orange Quality and Speed lamps.

Online & offline

Speech to text online or on your PC

One slide switch: speech recognition in the cloud, or right on your computer.

Online — in the cloud

Your voice goes to a speech service and the text comes back while you are still talking: words appear live, with punctuation and capitals.

  • Soniox Pro — the most accurate. Detects your language and switches even mid-sentence; a whole meeting or lecture in one go. 1,500 minutes a month.
  • Standard engine by Google — free, 11 languages, one at a time.
  • Nothing to download, runs on any PC.
  • Needs the internet. Audio is sent to the provider only to be transcribed; VoiceKeyboard keeps no recordings.

On your PC — offline

The model runs on your own computer. No internet needed and nothing leaves the PC: right for private notes, travel and patchy Wi-Fi.

  • Whisper — about 99 languages, detects the language by itself.
  • Parakeet v3 — 25 European languages, fast, with punctuation.
  • GigaAM v3 and T-one — made for Russian: the most accurate, and the fastest.
  • Vosk — light enough for older computers.
  • Each model downloads once, inside the app (about 45 to 670 MB). Files and video links are always transcribed offline.
Extreme close-up of a thick glass indicator tube in a black holder with brass screws, a green glowing band filling most of it.

Free & Pro

See exactly what’s left

A green glass gauge sits on the recognition panel, right above Quality and Speed. It shows what you have left and goes down as you talk, so a limit never takes you by surprise. The minimized windows show it too.

  • Free: 2,000 words a day with any engine, online or offline. The gauge counts the words left for today and fills up again at midnight.
  • Pro: dictation without a daily limit — with the standard and offline engines the gauge simply reads UNLIMITED.
  • Soniox credits (Pro): 1,500 a month, one credit is one minute of audio. They renew every month on the day you paid; unused minutes do not carry over.
  • Never stuck: when the credits run out, dictation carries on with the standard engine until they renew.
A dark display in a thin brass frame with the letters PRO lit in red segments, mounted on a brushed metal bar.

Pro

Pro at a glance

The PRO display in the top bar lights up when Pro is on. Pro gives you:

  • Unlimited dictation with the standard and offline engines — no daily word limit.
  • Soniox premium engine: detects your language as you speak, even mid-sentence. 1,500 credits (minutes) a month, the rest shown on the green gauge.
  • Long recordings: a meeting or a lecture in one go.
  • Files and links without limits: any length, several files at once and a queue of video links, with timestamps.
  • All five tubes and fine tuning of the look.
  • Up to 3 computers. Works offline until the end of the paid period.

Click the PRO display in the app to compare Free and Pro.

Pricing

Free

$0

Standard and offline engines

  • 2,000 words of dictation a day, standard and offline engines together — the words left today are shown in the app, and the count renews at midnight
  • 1 file and 1 video link transcribed a day, up to 60 minutes each — drop them onto the FILES screen
  • Every core feature: hotkey, auto-stop, calibration, mini windows, windows that snap to the screen edge
Download free

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Pro

$9.99 / month

billed yearly — $119.88 Save 33%

  • Unlimited dictation with the standard and offline engines
  • Soniox premium engine — detects your language, even mid-sentence; 1,500 credits (minutes) a month, the rest shown in the app
  • Unlimited files and links, any length: several files and a queue of links at once, timestamps
  • All five tube styles and fine tuning
  • Up to 3 computers; works offline until the end of the paid period
Get Pro

14-day refund, no questions asked. Nothing is deducted for the Soniox minutes you used.

Download VoiceKeyboard

Windows 10 and 11 Coming soon

VoiceKeyboard

For Windows 10 and 11 ≈ … MB

One app for Free and Pro: Pro unlocks with your license code, no second download. Offline speech models are downloaded inside the app when you need them.

Questions about voice typing

Does it work in any app?

Yes. VoiceKeyboard types into the active window — a browser, a messenger, a document, a code editor. Put the cursor where you want the text, press the hotkey and speak.

One Windows limit: a window that runs as administrator may not accept typing from a regular app.

Which languages?

It depends on the engine you pick in the app: each one covers its own set of languages. Swipe or use the arrows to see them all.

1 / 6

  • Soniox “Fast premium” in the app

    Pro onlyOnlineDetects the language

    Detects your language as you speak and switches mid-sentence. 33 languages to choose from in the app; Soniox itself understands 60+.

    33 languages

    • Arabic
    • Bulgarian
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Estonian
    • Finnish
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • Hebrew
    • Hindi
    • Hungarian
    • Indonesian
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Latvian
    • Lithuanian
    • Malay
    • Norwegian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Slovak
    • Spanish
    • Swedish
    • Thai
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian
    • Vietnamese
  • Google “Standard” in the app

    FreeOnline

    One language at a time: pick it with the language buttons.

    11 languages

    • English
    • Estonian
    • French
    • German
    • Hindi
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Polish
    • Russian
    • Spanish
    • Ukrainian
  • Whisper “All languages” in the app

    FreeOfflineDetects the language

    33 languages to choose from; set to AUTO it recognises about 99 languages by itself. Bigger sizes are more accurate.

    33 languages

    • Arabic
    • Bulgarian
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Estonian
    • Finnish
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • Hebrew
    • Hindi
    • Hungarian
    • Indonesian
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Latvian
    • Lithuanian
    • Malay
    • Norwegian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Slovak
    • Spanish
    • Swedish
    • Thai
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian
    • Vietnamese
  • Parakeet v3 “European languages” in the app

    FreeOfflineDetects the language

    Fast and accurate for European languages, with punctuation; detects which one you speak.

    25 languages

    • Bulgarian
    • Croatian
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Estonian
    • Finnish
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • Hungarian
    • Italian
    • Latvian
    • Lithuanian
    • Maltese
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Slovak
    • Slovenian
    • Spanish
    • Swedish
    • Ukrainian
  • Vosk “Lightweight” in the app

    FreeOffline

    A small model per language (most are about 40 MB), for older or slower computers. Pick the language.

    15 languages

    • Czech
    • English
    • French
    • German
    • Hindi
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Spanish
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian
    • Vietnamese
  • GigaAM v3 and T-one “Russian — accurate / fast” in the app

    FreeOffline

    Two models made for Russian: GigaAM v3 is the most accurate, T-one types while you speak.

    1 language

    • Russian
Does it work offline?

Yes. Offline engines run on your PC: 2,000 words a day on the free plan, unlimited with Pro. File transcription is always offline. The standard and Soniox engines need the internet.

Pro checks your license online now and then; without the internet it keeps working until the end of the period you have paid for.

What happens to my audio?

With an offline engine (and for file transcription) everything stays on your PC. With an online engine your audio is sent to that engine's provider to be transcribed; VoiceKeyboard does not store your recordings. You choose the engine.

How do Soniox credits work?

Pro includes 1,500 Soniox credits a month. One credit is one minute of audio that Soniox processed — pauses count too, so a forgotten open microphone costs credits.

The month starts on the day you pay: buy on the 28th and your credits renew on the 28th, every month — on a yearly plan too. The credits you have left are shown in the app, on the recognition panel.

Credits do not roll over: the minutes you did not use expire when the month ends, and a fresh 1,500 arrive.

When they run out, dictation does not stop: it continues with the standard engine (or an offline model) until your credits renew.

Can I record a long meeting or lecture?

Yes. A Soniox recording can be any length — it carries on without a break, using your credits. If the credits run out in the middle, the same recording continues with the standard engine.

Online engines (standard and Soniox) stop by themselves after at most a minute of silence, so an open microphone does not run on. Offline models can listen as long as you like.

Can I hide what I dictate on screen?

Yes. The live transcript screen in the app can be switched off, so your words are not shown in the window. They still go to the window you are typing in.

How do files and links work?

Drag audio or video files, or links to videos, onto the FILES screen. Everything is transcribed offline, on your PC — drag and drop works on the free plan too.

Free: 1 file and 1 link a day, up to 60 minutes each. Pro: no limit, any length, and many at once — several files or a queue of links, with timestamps.

Is there a separate Pro version to download?

No. There is one app. Install it, and it works on the free plan; when you buy Pro you get a license code by e-mail, enter it in the app and Pro turns on. Your settings and counters stay as they are.

On how many computers can I use Pro?

On up to 3 computers at the same time. To move Pro to a new computer, release an old one in the app.

How do I cancel?

Any time. Pro stays on until the end of the period you have paid for and does not renew after it. The app then goes back to the free plan; your settings, counters and files are kept.

What do I need?

Windows 10 or 11 and a microphone. The internet is needed for the standard and Soniox engines and for buying Pro; offline models are downloaded inside the app when you choose them.

Can I get a refund?

Yes. Ask within 14 days of paying and you get your money back, no questions asked. Nothing is deducted for the Soniox minutes you used. Details are in the Refund policy.

What is in the free plan?