From the tray or the window
Left click records a new message, middle click records and pastes at the cursor; the actions can be swapped. The icon shows recording and processing by colour.
WINDOWS 10/11 · OFFLINE
You spoke.
It is written.
Speech turns into text on your own machine. Click the tray microphone, talk, and take the finished text from the clipboard.
Free · MIT · no account · no cloud
LIVE CAPTUREREC
“The idea appeared — and it is already written down. No switching between windows and no sending your voice to a server.”
LOCAL ENGINE100% ON DEVICE
01Click
02Speak
03Paste the text
CAPTURE
You see the words
while you are still talking.
Transcription runs in parallel with recording. Long text wraps across lines, and after you stop only the last fragment is processed.
Whisper and GigaAM
Pick multilingual Whisper, SenseVoice for Asian languages, or Russian GigaAM CTC/RNN-T. A model is downloaded only when you ask for it.
Quiet history
Expand and copy past results. Long lists are rendered lazily and stay responsive.
Private by design
Audio never leaves the machine while it is being recognised. No account, no subscription, no cloud processing.
CONTROL WITHOUT FRICTION
Settings apply instantly.
No Save button. Microphone, mouse button actions, global hotkeys, sounds, volume, language and autostart change in place. If a model is still downloading, the selection applies once it is ready.
- Microphone picker that avoids silent virtual cables
- Three global hotkeys: record, append and paste at the cursor
- Download progress and cancellation
- Automatic language detection where the model supports it
- Rotating logs with a button that opens the folder
GET VOICE BUTTON 0.2.6
One small tool.
All your speech under your control.
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Installer
Installs for all users, adds a Start menu shortcut and uninstalls cleanly through Windows.
Download setupNO INSTALLATION
Portable ZIP
Unzip and run voice-button.exe. Keep voice-button-ui.exe next to it — both files are in the archive.
Download ZIPSource code is under the MIT License. The build ships ONNX Runtime (MIT), sherpa-onnx (Apache-2.0) and whisper.cpp (MIT); the full license texts are in THIRD-PARTY.txt next to the executables. Models are not bundled: the app only offers links to download them.