SayOnce: Voice Dictation Software SayOnce: Voice Dictation Software

SayOnce: Offline Voice Dictation Software for Windows

Voice Dictation Software for Windows allows you to unput text 4x faster. Just hold a hotkey and speak instead of typing text. Convert your audios and vides into text for quick reading..

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4x faster than typing! SayOnce is a Voice dictation software for Windows that allows you allows you just hold the hotkey and talk. Your speach will be pasted at the cursor position in Word, Slack, or your IDE. Local processing. Free to try. Lifetime PRO plan available.

How to Start Dictating on Windows?

Download & Install.

1. Download & Install

1. Download & Install

Install the Voice Dictation Software. Wait a bit while on-device recognizer (about 500 MB once) being downloaded.

Hold the Hotkey.

2. Hold the Hotkey

2. Hold the Hotkey

By default, hold Ctrl + Win. Talk and release. At the bottom of the screen you will see dictation widget. Get text at default window.

(Optional) Configure Presets, Snippets and Dictionary.

3. (Optional) Configure Presets, Snippets and Dictionary

3. (Optional) Configure Presets, Snippets and Dictionary

On the Dictation tab, choose Prose, Code, or Email to configure puncuation and error fixing level. Automate input with Snippets.

Use Files Tab for Batch Transcription.

4. Use Files Tab for Batch Transcription

4. Use Files Tab for Batch Transcription

Add MP3, MP4, AVI, MOV files to convert into text using drag and drop or Add files button. Click the Start button. Get extracted text into clipboard or find it at output folder.

Why Use SoftOrbits Voice Dictation Software?

Many teams use cloud-based dictation tools for vibe coding, mail, tickets, and messaging.

Lightning-Fast Dictation.

Lightning-Fast Dictation

No visible input delay or waiting on most modern PCs. No multi-second delays that occur when transcription data is sent to the cloud.

No Need to Pay Monthly

One-time payment available for unlimited usage. Avoid another monthly subscription, or use the free version to try it out.

No Need to Pay Monthly.
Dictionary, Snippets, and Presets.

Dictionary, Snippets, and Presets

A personal dictionary and voice snippets allow you to say short words that will be expanded into longer text according to your task. Use different presets for coding, writing, and emailing.

All Popular Languages

25+ speech languages by default. 100+ more can be downloaded via an alternative model. 20+ UI languages.

All Popular Languages.

Cloud Dictation Subscriptions vs SayOnce

TopicCloud appSayOnce
Where your voice is recognizedSends your voice to vendors serversAll your data stay on your PC
Pricing modelMonthly or annual subscription onlyOne-time home license available
Works of offlineNoYes
Can transcribe large filesNo or expansiveYes
Free tierDaily or weekly world limitsFree daily limits (see FAQ)
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Global Hotkey to Paste at the Cursor

Push-to-talk uses a system-wide binding (default Ctrl+Win). Multiple methods of text inejction and configurable hotkey behaviour.

Prose, Code, and Email Presets

Are you typing text and need to format punctuation, paragraphs, filter wrong words? Our you are vibe coding and want to avoid auto formatting braking your code?

Snippets

Add your termins and product names into dictionary. Say 'My address' and get your reall address inserted insted."

Batch Video and Audio Transcription

Save hours of time listening videos and audios and looking for fragment you need by using automatic text extraction from your local audio and video files

Who Uses Voice Dictation Software?

For developers and power typists

Vibe code, type prompts and chat in Cursor or VS Code increasing your productivity multple times. Concentrate on task not at typing.

For writers

Write Word, Google Docs, or Outlook when Prose or Email presets is enabled.

For office work

Transcribe meetings saved as MP4 or MP3 and get searchable text files. No daily limits.

Supported Audio and Video formats for Transaction

Drag-and-drop media files to convert them into text.

CategoryExtensionsNotes
Uncompressed audio.WAV, .WAVEDirect PCM-style sources from recorders or exports
Common compressed audio.MP3, .M4A, .AACPodcasts, voice memos, and phone exports
Video.MP4, .MOV, .MKV, .WEBMExtract adio track and save them into text
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SayOnce: Voice Dictation Software

SayOnce: Voice Dictation Software

Languages
File Size

12 Mb

Version

1.0

Last updated on

24/03/26

$ 19.99

🖥️ System Requirements

  • Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7 (32/64 bit)
  • Intel i3, AMD Ryzen 5 or above
  • 4 GB of RAM or above
  • NVIDIA® GeForce® series 8 and 8M, Intel® HD Graphics 2000, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX 5600, AMD Radeon™ R600, Mobility Radeon™ HD 4330, Mobility FirePro™ series, Radeon™ R5 M230 or higher graphics card with up-to-date drivers
  • 1280 × 768 screen resolution, 32-bit color
  • 1 GB of free hard disk space or above

🙋 Frequently Asked Questions

No. All your voice and files are processed locally using speach to text AI model. We do not send records to 3rd parity servers or clouds.License activation still uses the network like other SoftOrbits products.

No. We use fine tuned models that work quick anought on CPU. GPU aceleration will be used if available to make it lighting fast.

You will have daily limit in 36 successful dictations. Nag screen will be also shown 3 times daily. Purchase a PRO version to remove those limit.

Speech recognition includes 25 European. You may download alternate model for 100+ language support.

Release the hotkey before changing current app. Put corsor at the right position.

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