Beep is offline dictation for Windows. Hold Ctrl + Win in any app — Gmail, Word, Slack, your code editor — talk, release, and your words appear right where your cursor is. Everything runs on your own PC.
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.
Anywhere you can type, you can dictate: browsers, email, Word, Slack, terminals, code editors. Beep types into whatever has your cursor.
Release the key and your sentence lands in about a second. No spinners, no cloud round-trips, no rate limits.
A tiny tray app with an elegant voice orb that appears while you talk. No windows to manage, nothing stealing focus from your work.
Beep restores your clipboard after inserting text — what you copied before dictating is still there after.
Pay once. The app keeps working even fully offline — and it's designed so it never stops working if our servers ever go away.
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 — Beep will tell you at startup rather than misbehaving.
8 GB recommended. Everything Beep needs ships inside the download, so nothing is fetched later. About 320 MB once installed.
Built-in laptop mics work fine. No GPU and no special hardware required.
Everything Beep 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 Beep won't run on your PC, we refund you.
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Yes. Your speech is processed on your own machine and never leaves it. The only network request Beep ever makes is a licence check every two weeks, containing your licence key and an anonymous machine ID — never audio, never text, never anything you dictated. Pull your network cable and Beep keeps working exactly the same.
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 Beep.exe. Both contain exactly the same app.
No. Everything Beep 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.
Your key activates up to two machines. Replacing a PC? Contact support and we'll free up a slot. Uninstalling does not delete your license, so reinstalling on the same machine is free.
This version is English-only — that keeps it small and very accurate. Multi-language is on the roadmap.
14 days, no questions asked. Payments are processed by Stripe, so refunds land back on your card automatically.
Your app keeps working. Licenses 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. Everywhere else — browsers, email, Word, Slack, terminals, your editor — works normally.
Beep 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 Beep.exe.
Not yet — and it would work differently, because iOS does not allow an app to listen for a hotkey or type into other apps. Here's what we're actually planning.