Dictation software for Windows,
running on the Windows machine itself.
Hold Ctrl, talk, and finished text lands wherever your cursor is — in Outlook, Word, Slack, your browser, any app. VoiceNote transcribes and writes on your own computer: nothing is uploaded, it works fully offline, and it's a one-time purchase, not another subscription.
Native on every Windows machine — including Snapdragon.
Intel & AMD (x64)
The standard build runs the speech model on your CPU — no GPU needed, no cloud queue, no per-word pricing.
Snapdragon & ARM64
A genuinely native ARM build — not x64 emulation — so Windows-on-ARM laptops get fast transcription and a light battery hit. Few dictation apps bother; we ship it as a first-class build.
At home in the system
Global hotkey, system tray controls, a quiet overlay at the edge of the screen, and per-app formatting that knows Outlook from VS Code. It installs per-user — no admin rights needed.
Windows already has voice typing. Why install anything?
Fair question — press Win+H and Windows will take dictation for free, and for an occasional sentence it's perfectly fine. The gaps show up when you try to write by voice all day: it doesn't learn the names and jargon it mishears, it types your words exactly as you said them — fillers, false starts and all — and it treats an email, a chat message and a code comment as the same thing.
VoiceNote is built for the all-day case. It learns permanently — correct "cooper netties" to Kubernetes once and it's right forever. It writes, not just transcribes — spoken rambling comes out as clean sentences shaped for the app you're in. And it does all of this on the machine, so it works on a plane, on a site with no signal, and in organisations where audio simply isn't allowed to leave.
| VoiceNote | Windows voice typing (Win+H) | Cloud dictation subscriptions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where speech is processed | On your computer | Microsoft speech services | Vendor cloud |
| Works fully offline | Yes | Limited | No |
| Learns your names & jargon | Yes — permanently | No | Partially |
| Cleans up how you actually talk | Yes — finished sentences | No — verbatim | Yes |
| Adapts output to the app | Yes — email vs chat vs code | No | Rarely |
| Meeting transcription | Yes — no bot, on-device | No | Separate subscription |
| Price | One-time, from $49 | Free | ~$10–20/month forever |
The part only Windows gets first: Meetings
VoiceNote's meeting transcription captures your computer's own audio, so it works with Zoom, Teams, Meet or any app that makes sound — no bot joins the call, nothing to integrate. Transcripts arrive labelled You and Others with a summary and action items, all written locally, and the raw audio is deleted by default. It's included in every tier, and it shipped on Windows first.
Private by architecture, not by promise
Everything above follows from one design decision: the models run on your machine. There's no account to create, nothing to upload, and no server of ours that ever hears your voice. That's why VoiceNote fits places cloud tools can't go — privileged legal work, clinical notes, regulated finance — and why the compliance story is short: your words never leave.
Common questions
Does VoiceNote work on Windows 10 and Windows 11?
Yes — Windows 10 and 11, on both Intel/AMD (x64) machines and Snapdragon/ARM laptops. The ARM build is native, not emulated, so transcription is fast and battery-friendly on Windows-on-ARM devices.
Which apps does it work in?
All of them. VoiceNote types wherever your cursor is — Outlook, Word, Gmail in a browser, Slack, Teams, Notion, VS Code, your line-of-business system. There are no plugins or integrations because none are needed.
How is this different from Windows' built-in voice typing (Win+H)?
Win+H is fine for an occasional sentence. VoiceNote transcribes on your own machine rather than a cloud service, keeps working offline, learns the names and jargon you correct, and shapes the output to where you're writing — a tidy email in Outlook, a one-liner in Slack, untouched text in a code editor. It also records and summarizes meetings, which Windows doesn't do.
Does it need the internet?
Only to download the app and its models once. After that it's fully offline — dictation, formatting and meeting transcription all run locally. Airplane mode is the honest test.
Will it slow my laptop down?
The speech model is distilled to run on ordinary CPUs and sits idle until you hold the hotkey. On Snapdragon laptops the native ARM build uses the efficient cores rather than emulation, which is exactly why we ship one.
What does it cost?
A 3-day free trial, then a one-time purchase — $49 (Solo), $79 (Duo, 2 devices) or $99 (Family, 4 devices). No subscription, no account.
Write like you talk, everywhere Windows takes you.
A tiny installer, one hotkey, and it's yours forever — on your machine, nowhere else.