Dictation for email
Windy Word turns your speech into text on your own computer. Use it to write email by talking, in the mail program you already use.
How to dictate an email
Open the message you want to write. Click where the words should go, so the cursor is blinking there. Start dictation with the Windy Word keyboard shortcut. Then talk.
Windy Word turns what you say into text and puts it wherever your cursor is blinking. If the words cannot be typed for you, they are copied and you can paste them.
A quick reply, a long update, a message you have been putting off: say it the way you would say it to the person. Then read it over, change anything you like, and send it yourself when you are ready.
Privacy
Email is often private. With a local model selected, your audio and your words never leave the machine. There is no upload to opt out of, because there is no upload. If you later choose to store transcripts in Windy Cloud, that is a decision you make deliberately, for the files you pick.
Sending the message is still the job of your mail program, and that works the way it always has.
Without a connection
The app works offline once it is installed and you have signed in. Airplane mode, a subway, a cabin with no signal: it all works, because the transcription happens on your processor.
So you can dictate a message with no signal. Your mail program will still need a connection to send it.
More than one language
Some people write to family in one language and to colleagues in another. Windy Word understands about 99 languages for speech. You talk, it works out which language you are speaking and writes it down in that language. You never set an input language.
Good to know
- Price. It is free, and it stays free. What we ask for is an account: an email address, and a phone number if you want a second way back into it.
- Privacy. With a local model selected, your audio and your words never leave the machine. We do not train on your voice.
- Offline. The app works offline once it is installed and you have signed in.
- Languages. Windy Word understands about 99 languages for speech. You never set an input language.
- Computers. Windy Word runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
A free Windy account is all you need to download.