HoldSpeak for Windows and Mac
Hold a key, speak, and your words appear.
HoldSpeak is a free dictation app. Hold a key, say what you want to type, let go, and the text appears wherever your cursor is.
It runs on your computer. Nothing you say leaves it.
SpeedHow fast it is
Ten seconds of speech in under a tenth of a second.
On a computer with a graphics card, HoldSpeak turns 10 seconds of speech into text in 0.084 seconds.
No graphics card? It still works.
InstallThree steps
Installing it on Windows.
- 1Download and open the installer.Click Download for Windows above, then open HoldSpeak_0.3.1_x64-setup.exe from your downloads.
- 2Get past the Windows warning.Windows will say the app is from an unknown publisher. Click More info, then Run anyway, and follow the installer.
- 3Let it download the speech model once.The first time HoldSpeak opens, it downloads its speech model, about 485 MB. After that, hold the key and speak.
On a Mac? Open the downloaded HoldSpeak file and drag HoldSpeak into Applications. Allow Microphone and Accessibility when asked, then quit and reopen it. Hold fn+F9 to talk.