Dictation for notes

How to dictate a note

Open a note in the notes app you already use. 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.

Meeting notes, a list of things to do, a journal, an idea for later: say it as it comes. You can tidy the note afterwards.

Think out loud

You do not have to sit at the keyboard. Put on a headset and dictate while you pace the room. Speak naturally and your words become text, in the language you spoke.

Privacy

Notes can be personal. 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. We do not train on your voice.

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.

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.