Dictation · Mac and Windows · Free and Pro
Hold fn on a Mac or Right Ctrl on Windows, say what you mean, and let go. The words appear wherever your cursor is, in any app, transcribed and tidied on your own computer. Free for 1,000 words a week, no account needed.
How it works
An email, a Slack message, a Word document, a prompt box, a code comment. Wherever your cursor is, that is where the text will land.
On a Mac, hold fn (the Globe key). On Windows, hold Right Ctrl. Or choose your own shortcut. Double-tap it to keep the microphone open for a long dictation, and tap again to stop.
Your speech is transcribed on your computer, not on a server. The audio is not uploaded. With the model downloaded once, it works with Wi-Fi off.
In Pro, SmartText tidies them first: punctuation in, the ums out, a list you spoke written as a list. Then VV types them into the app, as if you had typed them yourself.
Anywhere
VV does not integrate with anything, on purpose. It types through the same input layer your keyboard uses, so the app on the other end cannot tell the difference, and nothing breaks when that app updates.
Finished text, not a transcript
A small writing model that runs on your computer. It turns what you said into what you would have typed: punctuation and capitals in, fillers and false starts out, lists as lists. If it is ever unsure, you get your words exactly as you said them. Free and Pro.
Teach it names, products and jargon: how each sounds and how it is spelt. We rebuilt the matcher so it stops “correcting” words that were right: false corrections fell from 38% to 3% on our test set.
Say a short phrase and get a block of text: your sign-off, your address, the reply you send every week.
Turn a rambling dictation into bullets, a cleaner email or tidy notes. Local by default; a cloud provider only if you add one, and it is labelled.
Say what you want while you dictate — “make this a list”, “turn this into an email to Sam” — and get it laid out, ready to paste. The text (never the audio) goes to our server, which uses OpenAI with storage turned off.
Every dictation is kept on your computer, with its audio, for as long as you choose. If one comes out wrong, you can hear what you actually said.
Built not to lose a word
Dictation is good at prose: email, messages, notes, prompts and first drafts. It is not the right tool for code syntax, spreadsheets or anything with a strict character limit, and it works best alongside your keyboard, not instead of it.
Same app · Vaitly Meetings
The same VV records your Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, WhatsApp and Slack calls in the background, with no bot, and writes minutes, decisions and action items afterwards. Part of Pro, in beta.
Questions
Any app where you can type. VV types through the same input layer as your keyboard, so there is no plugin to install and no list of supported apps to check. Password fields are the deliberate exception, and on Windows it cannot type into a program running as administrator.
No. Speech is transcribed by a model on your Mac or PC. The audio is not uploaded. On Free, the text stays on your computer too, unless you point a Transform at a cloud provider. In Pro, Cloud Polish sends the finished text, never the audio, to our server.
Part of Pro: a small writing model that runs on your computer after every dictation. It adds punctuation, removes fillers and false starts, and writes a spoken list as a list. It downloads once after setup; until it arrives, dictation works as before. If anything goes wrong, you get your words exactly as you said them.
Yes. The first run downloads the speech model, which needs a connection once. After that, dictation and SmartText work with no internet. Cloud Polish and buying a plan need the network.
On a fresh Mac, fn (the Globe key). On Windows, Right Ctrl is suggested. You can choose any shortcut in Settings. Hold it to talk, or double-tap to keep the microphone open.
VV tells you within a few seconds if your microphone is sending only silence — a mute key, or an input level turned right down — so you find out before you have said a paragraph, not after.
1,000 words of dictation a week, resetting Monday 00:00 UTC, on one computer, with no account. Pro makes dictation unlimited and adds Vaitly Meetings and Cloud Polish for £9.99 a month or £99 a year.
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