Press Ctrl + Win in any app, talk, press again, and your words appear right where your cursor is. Recognition runs on your own PC — your voice is never uploaded, never stored on anyone's server, and never used to train anything.
Press the keys and talk.
Press again, and it's already there.
InkBeepAI types into whatever has your cursor. There is no plugin, no integration and nothing to set up per app.
Product names and logos are trademarks of their respective owners, shown here only to identify applications InkBeepAI can type into. InkBeepAI is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any of them. Anything running as administrator — Task Manager, for instance — is blocked by Windows itself, for every app that doesn't ask you for administrator rights.
Turn off your Wi-Fi and keep dictating. Same speed, same accuracy, nothing missing. A cloud dictation tool stops dead at that point; InkBeepAI cannot tell the difference.
Nothing here is a mock-up of a setting you have to find. Unplug the network and dictate — that is the whole test.
Point a network monitor at it and dictate for an hour if you want the thorough version. There is nothing to see.
Speech recognition runs entirely on your machine. Your voice and your words are never uploaded, never stored on a server, never used to train anything — there is nowhere for them to go.
Browsers, email, Word, Slack, terminals, code editors. InkBeepAI types into whatever has your cursor, unless that window is running as administrator; and the occasional application that ignores a Ctrl+V paste takes the typing option in Settings instead.
Release the key and your sentence lands. No spinners, no cloud round-trips, no rate limits, and never behind another user's request. English is quick on the processor alone; other languages need a graphics processor to keep up.
A tiny tray app with an elegant voice orb that appears while you talk. No windows to manage, nothing stealing focus from your work.
Teach it that “my email id” means your actual address. Speak three words, get the whole string — expanded on your machine, never sent anywhere. Plus the hotkey, activation mode, auto-stop, microphone and text-output switches. See the settings.
InkBeepAI puts your clipboard back after inserting text — the text, formatting, images or files you copied before dictating are still there after. Formats that belong to one application, such as Excel cells, come back as their text and formatting; if that is all the clipboard held, your transcript is left on it instead.
Pay once for a perpetual licence to this version — no renewal, no expiry date. Your licence is verified offline against a signature on your own machine, so the app keeps working with no internet and keeps working if our servers ever go away. Exactly what that covers.
Not Windows 7, 8, 8.1, or 32-bit Windows. On an Arm PC (Snapdragon / Copilot+), Windows 11 24H2 or newer, fully updated.
Intel Core 4th generation ("Haswell", 2013) or newer, or AMD Ryzen / FX "Excavator" (2015) or newer. Some budget Celeron and Pentium Silver chips lack AVX2 whatever their age — InkBeepAI will tell you at startup rather than misbehaving.
8 GB recommended. Both speech models ship inside the download, so nothing is ever fetched later. About 910 MB once installed — most of it is the two models.
English needs no graphics processor; on a PC that has one it now uses it. The other 98 languages use a much larger model and want a graphics processor — the one built into the processor counts, as does a separate card. We have measured speed on one laptop, with Intel Iris Xe graphics; older or weaker graphics are slower. InkBeepAI times itself whenever it loads the larger model and tells you if your PC cannot keep up, and offers to put you back on English. More on languages.
Built-in laptop mics work fine. No special hardware required for English.
Everything InkBeepAI needs is bundled in the download — there is no .NET runtime, redistributable, or other prerequisite to install first. Not sure about the processor? Buy with confidence: if InkBeepAI won't run on your PC, we refund you.
Free to download and install. It asks for a licence key when you activate — already bought? Your key is in your email.
On a locked-down work PC? Download the portable zip — unzip it anywhere and run InkBeepAI.exe, no installer required. Want to check the file first? SHA-256 checksums for both.
If your browser blocks the download.
Chrome and Edge warn about files that have not been downloaded by many people yet.
It is a comment on how common the file is, not on what is in it — every release from a small independent developer starts this way.
In Chrome: open Downloads (the tray or arrow at the top right), find InkBeepAI in the list,
click the three dots (⋮) beside it, choose Keep, then Keep anyway in the box that appears.
In Edge: open Downloads, hover over InkBeepAI, click the three dots (⋯),
choose Keep, then Show more and Keep anyway.
Would rather not argue with the browser? The portable zip is the same app and is usually let through without a warning — unzip it anywhere and run InkBeepAI.exe.
Either way you can confirm you got exactly what we published: compare the file against our SHA-256 checksums.
Windows may then say “unrecognised app” the first time you run it. That is a second, separate warning — Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, reporting that it has not seen this file run many times yet, not that anything was found wrong with it. Click More info, then Run anyway. Both warnings fade as more people download the same release.
One-time purchase. No subscription, no per-seat renewal. Every tier is the same app — more devices, nothing else changes.
Everything runs on your machine, at every tier. No account, no upload, and no mechanism by which we could see what you dictate — the paid tiers differ only in how many devices one key activates.
On your card statement this appears as LINK.COM* NEXTGENOMNI. InkBeepAI is a product of . Stripe’s Link is the merchant of record, which is why its name and not ours appears on the charge. Prices include VAT or sales tax where it applies — the amount shown is the amount you pay.
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Yes. Your speech is processed on your own machine and never leaves it. InkBeepAI talks to one server, ours: once when you activate your key, then a licence check every two weeks. Each request contains your licence key and up to three anonymous hardware hashes — never audio, never text, never anything you dictated. Pull your network cable and InkBeepAI keeps working exactly the same. Here is exactly how, and how to verify it yourself.
No, and you never have to. Press Ctrl + Win once, speak, and press it again when you are done — nothing to hold. While it is listening you can also click the tick under the orb to insert, or the X to cancel, and Esc cancels without inserting anything. If you would rather hold the key down, switch Activation to “Hold to talk” in Settings; both work, and the choice is yours.
Three ways, and they all do the same thing:
To throw a recording away instead, press Esc or click the X. Nothing is inserted either way.
Windows Voice Typing (Win+H) is free and fine for casual use, but recognition happens on Microsoft's servers, so it needs an internet connection and your speech leaves your PC. InkBeepAI runs on your own PC. Full comparison here, including when you should just use the free one.
Dragon is a full professional dictation suite — voice commands, custom vocabulary, training. InkBeepAI is one keypress that works the same wherever you already type, with nothing to set up. Side-by-side comparison, including where Dragon is the better choice.
Either. The installer is the easy path and needs no administrator rights. The portable zip is there for locked-down work machines — unzip it anywhere and run InkBeepAI.exe. Both contain exactly the same app.
It is — while you are dictating, and only then. Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Norton and others have a microphone-protection feature that pops up whenever any app opens the mic; Zoom and Teams trigger the same notice. InkBeepAI opens the microphone when you start dictating and closes it the moment the audio has been captured.
What matters is where that audio goes: nowhere. Recognition runs on your own PC, and the only server InkBeepAI ever talks to is our licence server — once when you activate your key, then a check every two weeks carrying your key and up to three anonymous hardware hashes. If you'd rather not see the notice, allow InkBeepAI in your antivirus's microphone settings.
Chrome and Edge flag files that few people have downloaded yet. It is a statement about how common the file is, not about what is in it — every release from a small independent developer starts with no download history.
Chrome: open Downloads, click the three dots (⋮) next to InkBeepAI, choose Keep, then Keep anyway.
Edge: open Downloads, hover over InkBeepAI, click the three dots (⋯), choose Keep, then Show more and Keep anyway.
Or skip it entirely: the portable zip is the same app and usually downloads without a warning. Either way, the SHA-256 checksums let you confirm the file is byte-for-byte what we published.
No. That warning is Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, and it means Windows has not seen this file downloaded enough times yet to have built up a reputation for it — not that anything was found wrong with it. It appears on almost every app from a small independent developer.
To continue: click More info, then Run anyway.
The warning disappears by itself as more people download the same file. If you would rather verify before running, every release is published with its SHA-256 checksum so you can confirm the file you downloaded is byte-for-byte the one we published.
No. Everything InkBeepAI depends on is bundled in the download. There is no framework, runtime, or add-on to install first, and nothing gets downloaded in the background afterwards.
Whatever your tier says — . Every tier is the same app; the only difference is how many machines one key activates. Uninstalling does not delete your licence, so reinstalling on the same machine is free and does not use up a slot.
Yes. Email support with your licence key and we'll free the old machine's slot so your replacement can activate. There's no charge and no limit on doing this for genuine hardware changes.
Yes, and you keep the same licence key — we just raise the number of devices it covers, so nothing you've already set up needs reactivating. Email support and you pay only the difference between the two tiers.
99, all offline, both speech models inside the download. You choose one and it stays chosen — one language at a time, never a mixture, never a translation. We measured 25 of them ourselves against recordings of native speakers: 16 passed our bar and we publish the error rate for each, and 9 missed it and are named on the page with their figures. The remaining 83 are not verified — they run, and the app says so when you pick one, rather than being counted as a feature. Languages other than English want a graphics processor to be quick; English does not need one. The full table and the method.
30 days, no questions asked. Payments are processed by Stripe, so refunds land back on your card automatically.
Your app keeps working. Licences are verified offline with cryptographic signatures; the server is only needed to activate new machines. We built it so paying customers can't be stranded.
No — and nor does any other dictation tool that doesn't ask you for administrator rights. Windows deliberately blocks normal programs from sending keystrokes into windows running as administrator, which is what stops malware doing the same thing. The applications you work in — browsers, email, Word, Slack, terminals, your editor — take dictated text normally; the occasional one that ignores a Ctrl+V paste has the typing option in Settings.
InkBeepAI bundles several open-source components, all under the MIT Licence. They're listed with full attribution on our licences page, and the same notices ship inside the app next to InkBeepAI.exe.
No. InkBeepAI is a Windows program, and iOS does not allow an app to listen for a hotkey or type into other apps, so a phone version would have to be a different thing altogether. The honest explanation.