Use case · docs
Voice typing in
Google Docs.
A first draft is just the thought written down, and thoughts do not arrive at 36 words a minute. Dictate paragraphs into Docs at talking speed, whole sentences landing on the beat, then spend your hands on editing instead of composing.
Three steps, once
1. Install.
Four steps, once, on Android or Windows. No account and no card for the free plan.
2. Open Google Docs.
Open the doc and put the cursor where the paragraph should start.
3. Press and talk.
Hold the key on Windows, tap the bubble on Android, then talk like a person. Whole sentences land at the cursor about two seconds after you pause.
Speak in whole sentences and trust the beat. Composing out loud is a skill that arrives in about a day, and it is the same key at your desk as on your phone, so a draft started on the walk home carries straight on at the keyboard.
Private in Google Docs, by architecture.
Fastspoken types through the keyboard layer on Android and at the cursor on Windows, so Google Docs receives ordinary typed characters, exactly as if your hands had done it. On the free plan speech becomes text on the machine in front of you: 0 words of what you said sent to a server, no account, and it still works with the wifi off. The typing is free because it runs on your machine, which is the same reason nothing you say leaves it. See the whole machine.
No server in the loop on the free plan.
Questions about Google Docs
Can I write a whole document by voice?
Yes. Sentences land one after another at your cursor. Speaking runs about three times faster than typing the same words, so the draft arrives while you still have the thread of it.
Does it handle punctuation?
Sentences arrive already punctuated, so you never say comma or full stop out loud. Pro adds a cloud polish that drops the filler and collapses self-corrections.