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02Dictate · Windows

Voice to text for Windows, in any app, offline

Talk instead of typing: Lesskeys turns your speech into text in any Windows app and puts it where your cursor is, in 99 languages. It runs on your PC, works offline, and nothing is uploaded.

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Windows 10 and 11 · No subscription

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Illustration: four people each say a greeting in their own language: Good morning, Buenos días, Guten Morgen and Bonjour. Each greeting is written down in the language that was spoken, with the language named under it.
Illustration with sample greetings. Lesskeys detects the language you speak.

Any app

Talk to any Windows app

The long email, the quick reply, the letter you keep putting off.

Say it, and the text lands where your cursor is, in the language you speak. See the 99 languages⁠.

Windows voice typing

Windows voice typing or Lesskeys?

Built into Windows

  • Voice typing needs no install. Microsoft describes it as using online speech recognition.
  • Voice access on Windows 11 also controls the PC by voice.

Lesskeys

  • Speech models that run on your PC: offline.
  • 99 languages, detected for you.
  • Calls and files in the same app.

Lesskeys writes the text after you stop talking, and it does not control the PC by voice.

Private

Your voice stays on your PC

A starter speech model is inside the app, so dictation works from the first launch.

Larger, more accurate models download once and stay on your PC.

  • Nothinguploaded
  • Offlineworks with no connection
  • No accountneeded

Your words

Names right, every time

  1. 99 languages.

    Detected for you, or pin up to four.

    99

  2. Names come out right.

    A text replacement fixes a word every time.

  3. Each app its own language.

    Set it per app.

Your PC

Ready for Windows 10 and 11

  • Windows 10 (version 1903 or later) or Windows 11, with a microphone
  • A one-time model download of about half a gigabyte to 3 GB

Questions

Questions about voice to text on Windows

Does Lesskeys voice to text work without internet on Windows?

Yes. The speech recognition runs on your PC, and a starter model is inside the app, so it works offline from the first launch. Larger models download once.

Is Windows voice typing enough, or do I need Lesskeys?

For a short note, Windows voice typing is often enough. Lesskeys adds speech models that run on your PC, 99 languages, text replacements, per-app settings and calls and files in the same app, but it writes the text after you stop talking.

Which languages can I talk in on Windows?

99. Lesskeys detects the language for you, or you can pin up to four.

Does Lesskeys put the text in my app on Windows?

Yes, it pastes where your cursor is. A few apps refuse pasted text from another program, for example a window running as Administrator; then the text waits on your clipboard.

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Also in Lesskeys

Ways to get Lesskeys

Record calls, talk to any app and keep a clipboard history, all on your own computer.

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