use case · email

Dictate email. Reply at talking speed.

Replying is where the day goes — another message, another few paragraphs. Most people speak three to four times faster than they type, so speak them: the words land right in the draft, ready to fix and send.

free · unlimited · nothing sends itself · Windows 10/11

gmail, outlook, or the mail app on your desktop

Put the cursor in the reply box and press Ctrl ` . Gmail or Outlook in a browser, Outlook or Thunderbird on the desktop, the Mail app that came with Windows — the shortcut does not care which. It types wherever the cursor is, the subject line included.

Your words arrive as ordinary editable text. Fix a name, cut a sentence, add the link you forgot. Nothing goes out until you press Send yourself.

from spoken to sendable

Spoken sentences arrive with detours and "ums". The Polish voice mode tidies the grammar and drops the filler before the words land, so a quick spoken reply still reads like a written one. It runs on the built-in local model or an Ollama server you already have; Pro can send it through your own OpenAI or Claude account instead.

Prefer every word exactly as spoken? Leave the mode off. Want a house style? Add a mode of your own — one that keeps replies short and warm, say — and give it its own shortcut.

a few habits that make it quick

  • Cursor first, then shortcut. The words go wherever the cursor is when you press it.
  • Short reply, hold the key; long reply, tap it. Push-to-talk and toggle are both there, and a hybrid decides from how long you hold.
  • Read it once. Dictation is fast; the read-through is where you catch the wrong name.
  • Reuse an answer. Hover the button for recent transcripts and paste one again — handy for the reply you send five times a week.

when the email is about something on screen

A wrong line on an invoice, an order that looks off, a page that will not load — some emails exist only to describe a thing you are looking at. Press Alt ` , drag over that part of the screen, circle the line while you say what is wrong, and paste into the draft. The marked-up screenshot and your transcribed words arrive together — no saving a file, no hunting for the attach button, no typing up what the picture already shows.

questions

Does it work in Outlook on the desktop?

Yes. It types at the cursor in any app — Outlook, Thunderbird, the Windows Mail app, or Gmail and Outlook in a browser.

Is there a limit on how much I can dictate?

No. Dictation is free and unlimited: no word caps, no monthly allowance, no trial clock.

Can it send the email for me?

No — and on purpose. By default the words simply land in the draft; you read them over and press Send yourself.

Does what I dictate get uploaded anywhere?

No. Speech becomes text on your device; audio is never uploaded and the app tracks nothing about you. What reaches your outbox is what you chose to put in the draft.

Download free

Free and unlimited, so a long inbox costs nothing extra. Related: writing by voice, voice for support teams and all use cases.