Features
One key. Everywhere. Nothing leaves your PC.
Most dictation tools ask you to change how you work — open their window, dictate into their box, copy the result out. InkBeepAI removes that entirely: it types into whatever already has your cursor, and it never touches the network to do it.
The gesture
Hold a key. Speak. Release. The text appears at your cursor. That is the entire interface, and it is deliberately the entire interface.
Works in every app
Browsers, Gmail, Word, Outlook, Slack, Notion, terminals, code editors, form fields, search boxes. If you can type there, you can dictate there — InkBeepAI sends real text to whatever has focus, so there is no per-app integration to wait for.
No window, no focus steal
The overlay is a small orb that cannot take focus. Your cursor stays exactly where it was, your text selection survives, and nothing you were doing is interrupted.
Hold-to-talk or toggle
Hold the key while you speak, or press once to start and once to stop. Whichever suits the length of what you dictate.
Remappable hotkey
Ctrl+Win by default. Change it to a key you actually have free — Right Alt is a popular choice.
Esc cancels
Changed your mind mid-sentence? Esc drops the recording and anything still transcribing. Nothing is inserted.
Starts with Windows
Lives in the tray, ready from login. There is no app to launch before you can talk.
Speed you do not wait for
Release the key and the sentence lands in about a second. No spinner, no upload, no round trip, no rate limit, no queue behind other users. The model is already loaded in memory on your machine before you start speaking.
Because there is no server, the speed does not change when your connection is bad, when you are on hotel Wi-Fi, or when a provider is having a busy afternoon.
The details that decide whether you keep using it
Dictation tools are usually abandoned over small friction, not big failures. These are the ones that mattered enough to build:
- Your clipboard survives. InkBeepAI inserts text via the clipboard and then puts back exactly what you had copied before. Dictating never costs you the thing you were about to paste.
- Transcripts stay out of Clipboard History. Windows keeps the last 25 clipboard entries and, with sync switched on, uploads them to your Microsoft account. InkBeepAI explicitly tags its payload so Windows excludes it from both. Without that, every privacy claim on this site would be false by a side door.
- Chained dictation does not lose sentences. Release and immediately press again and both transcripts land, in order. Insertion waits for the new recording rather than racing the key you are physically holding.
- Punctuation and capitalisation are handled so the output reads like writing, not a transcript.
- It tells you when your microphone is too quiet — while you are still speaking, not after you have dictated a paragraph into a mic that could never have picked it up.
- It checks your processor before it fails. Unsupported CPU? You are told at startup, in plain language, instead of hitting a cryptic error later.
Privacy that is checkable, not asserted
Speech recognition runs on your own processor. The model ships inside the download — roughly 142 MB of it — and nothing is fetched at runtime, ever.
- Audio is captured, transcribed and discarded in memory. Never written to disk, so there is no cache, temp file or recording to recover.
- Logs record timings and character counts. Never the text.
- No account. No sign-in. No profile. You paste a licence key once.
- The only network request the app ever makes is a licence check every two weeks, carrying your key and an anonymous machine ID.
The test: disconnect from the internet completely and keep dictating. Nothing changes. Full explanation, and how to verify it yourself →
Yours, permanently
One-time purchase
A perpetual licence for the version you bought — no subscription, no renewal, no expiry date. Future major versions may be a separate purchase; this one stays yours regardless. What that covers exactly.
Licences verify offline
Your licence is checked against a cryptographic signature held on your own machine. The server is only needed to activate a new machine.
Designed to outlive us
If our servers vanish, your app keeps working. It is built so that silence from the licence server never blocks a paying customer — that is a deliberate design rule, not a happy accident.
Move it to a new PC free
Replaced your laptop? We free the old slot. Reinstalling on the same machine costs nothing and uses no slot at all.
Buy for one device or a hundred
Licences cover . The same app at every tier — the only difference is how many machines one key activates. See the ladder.
14-day refund
No questions asked. If it is not what you wanted, say so and the money goes back.
What it does not do
Stated here rather than discovered after you pay:
- English only in this version. Multi-language is on the roadmap.
- No voice commands. It types what you say; it does not drive your applications or edit by voice.
- No custom vocabulary yet, so unusual proper nouns and specialist jargon may need correcting.
- It cannot transcribe recorded audio files — live speech only.
- It cannot type into windows running as administrator (Task Manager, elevated PowerShell). Windows blocks that for every tool that does not demand admin rights, which is a protection, not a defect.
- Windows only today. macOS is the next platform.
- Needs a processor with AVX2 — Intel Core 4th generation (2013) or newer, AMD Ryzen / FX "Excavator" (2015) or newer.
If several of those are dealbreakers, a full dictation suite is probably the better purchase — we say so here too.
Common questions
Does it work without an internet connection?
Completely. Speech recognition runs on your own processor and the model ships inside the download. The only network request InkBeepAI ever makes is a licence check every two weeks, carrying your licence key and an anonymous machine ID — never audio, never text.
Which applications does it work in?
Any application you can type into: browsers, Gmail, Word, Outlook, Slack, Notion, terminals, code editors, search boxes and form fields. InkBeepAI inserts real text into whatever window has focus, so there is no per-app support list.
Will it overwrite my clipboard?
No. InkBeepAI inserts text via the clipboard and then restores exactly what you had copied beforehand. It also tags the transcript so Windows keeps it out of Clipboard History and out of cloud clipboard sync.
How fast is it?
About a second for a normal sentence. There is no upload, no queue and no rate limit, so it does not slow down on a poor connection or at a busy time of day.
Is it a subscription?
No. It is a one-time purchase with a 14-day refund window. Your licence verifies offline, so the app keeps working even if our servers go away.
Can I use one licence on more than one computer?
Yes — how many depends on the tier you buy, from a single device up to a hundred. Every tier is the same app. If you replace a machine, contact support and we free the old slot at no charge.
What languages does it support?
English only in this version, which is what keeps it small and accurate. Multi-language is on the roadmap.
Talk instead of typing
One-time purchase, 14-day refund, no subscription, no account.