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Voice Typing When Your Wrists Hurt

If typing has started to hurt, every keystroke you can say instead is one your hands do not make. VoxScribe is free voice dictation for Windows and Android: one key or one button, and your words are typed into whatever app you are in.

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Free & open source (MIT) · no word limits · works offline

Not medical advice. Pain, numbness or tingling in your hands or wrists is worth showing to a doctor. Voice typing can take load off your hands while you do that; it does not treat anything.

One key instead of thousands

On Windows you hold one key, talk, and let go, and the text is typed where your cursor is: email, chat, documents, browser forms, anything that takes typed text. A paragraph that is a few hundred keystrokes becomes one key press.

Pick a key that is easy to reach. F9 is the default. You can switch to any F key, Pause, Scroll Lock, Insert or Left Shift, whichever your hand finds least awkward.
Do not want to hold a key? Switch to press-to-toggle in Settings: press once to start, talk as long as you like, press again to stop.
On Android, a small floating button sits above your keyboard in every app. Hold it, talk, let go.

Less fixing by hand

Dictation only saves your hands if you are not going back to correct every other word. These help:

Spoken punctuation. Say "period", "comma", "question mark" or "new line" and get the symbol.
Take it back by voice. "Scratch that" removes your last dictation and "delete last word" removes one word, without reaching for Backspace.
Teach it your words. Names and terms it keeps missing go in the custom vocabulary or in word replacements, and are right from then on.
Filler words are cleaned up. The "um" and "uh" you say while thinking are left out.

Free, with no limit, and private

There is no word limit and no subscription, so you can use it all day. Your voice is turned into text on your own PC or phone and never uploaded, which matters when what you dictate is your work email or your messages. See privacy at a glance for every connection the apps make.

Frequently asked questions

Can I use voice typing for everything on Windows?

For anything that takes typed text, yes: VoxScribe types into whichever app has focus. It does not replace the mouse or keyboard shortcuts, so clicking and menus still need your hands or another tool.

Do I have to hold the key the whole time?

No. Holding is the default, but press-to-toggle mode starts recording with one press and stops it with the next.

Is it really free?

Yes. Dictation, spoken punctuation, custom vocabulary and word replacements are free with no word limit. An optional one-time Pro key adds extras such as the larger models.

Does it work without internet?

Yes. On Windows the speech model downloads once on first launch and everything after that runs offline. The Android app has the model built in.

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