Accessibility
VibeVox turns speech into text in the program you are working in: e-mail, Word, the browser or a chat. It is made for everyone, but it helps most those who find typing on a keyboard hard, slow or painful.
Who it helps
Pain or limited movement in hands and arms
You speak instead of typing. A recording starts and stops with one key or a mouse side button, and in hands-free mode a single press is all it takes to get going.
Reading and writing difficulties
Words arrive spelled, with full stops, commas and capital letters. You can think about what you want to say and leave the spelling alone.
Low vision
Less time with your eyes on the keyboard and the screen. The Settings window follows the text size you chose in Windows, and has a light and a dark theme.
Blind and screen reader users
NVDA and Windows Narrator read the Settings window aloud: every switch says its name, whether it is on, and what it does. Short sounds tell you when a recording starts and ends.
One key, or just your voice
You choose what starts dictation: a single key, a key combination or a mouse side button. Press once to start and once more to stop.
With Pro you can also hold the key while you speak, or switch on hands-free mode (beta). Then you press once and VibeVox keeps listening: each phrase starts when the camera sees your lips move and the microphone hears you, and ends when you pause. After three minutes without speech, listening switches itself off, and you can change that time. Hands-free mode needs a webcam.
Sound instead of screen
A short sound marks the start of a recording, another its end, and errors have a sound of their own. You know what is happening without looking. The volume can be adjusted, and the sounds can be switched off.
Norwegian, offline, on Windows 10 and 11
The built-in Norwegian dictation in Windows exists only in Windows 11. VibeVox works on both Windows 10 and 11, and the recognition itself runs on your computer, without the internet. Norwegian has its own model from the National Library of Norway: a free add-on pack of about 0.7 GB that downloads once, and 25 other languages are included from the start. We recommend 8 GB of memory.
Tips for screen reader users
Change the hotkey
The default is two quick presses of Ctrl, and Ctrl makes a screen reader stop speaking. Choose a function key, a key combination or a mouse side button instead, under Settings → General.
Follow the sounds
The small window that shows a recording in progress is not read aloud. The start and end sounds give you the same message.
"Ctrl+V" means the text is in place
When VibeVox pastes the text, your screen reader may say "ctrl+v". That is normal: the text has arrived.
What is free
Dictation is free and stays free, with no daily limit, and each recording can last up to one minute. Pro is one payment of €29 and adds hands-free mode, recordings of up to five minutes, push-to-talk, Auto Enter and your own word lists, among other things. The first time you install VibeVox, you get 14 days of Pro for free, no card needed.
Test it with us
Do you use a screen reader, work as an occupational therapist, teacher or adviser, or know someone who struggles to write? We would like to hear what works and what does not, and we will fix what we can.
Write to us on the support pageStart dictating
for free
Every paid feature is unlocked for your first 14 days. No card, no account.