Voice to text for your whole computer v1.6

Say it once.
It's typed.

Hold a key, speak, and let go. Lazytype writes clean, punctuated text right where your cursor is — in any app, any language, with realtime preview while you speak.

macOS 12+ · Windows 10/11 · Free 14-day trial · No signup
left Ctrl held
What you say
What Lazytype writes
Ctrl hold  ·  speak  ·  release 0.7s
100+ languages Sub-second transcription Realtime live preview Works in every app Windows & macOS No card to start
words dictated
by all Lazytype users, ever
hours of typing saved
at an average of 40 WPM
The case for talking

Your hands are the slow part.

Most people speak about three times faster than they type, and never lose their train of thought hunting for keys. Lazytype turns that speed into finished text.

Typing~40
words per minute, average
Speaking~130
words per minute, comfortable pace

Average speaking pace comfortably outpaces even fast typists — and you never lose the thread of a thought.

How it works

Two minutes to set up. Then you forget it's there.

Install & launch

Download the app. A small microphone sits in your system tray, quietly ready whenever you are.

Choose your plan

Bring your own free Groq key with a one-time license, or subscribe and let us handle the transcription. No key, no setup.

Hold, speak, done

Press and hold the left Ctrl key, say your sentence, and let go. The text lands wherever you were typing — while a live preview shows every word as it arrives.

In your apps

It types where you're already working.

No window to copy from. Hold the key, talk, and clean text lands straight in the app you're in.

Gmail
Slack
Google Docs
Notion
Translate
Gmail
Listening · hold left Ctrl
New in v1.6

Watch your words land before you finish.

A floating preview bar shows each chunk the moment Lazytype hears it — while you're still speaking. See where you're going, catch a mistake mid-sentence, or just watch your thoughts arrive in real time.

  • Words stream in chunk by chunk as you speak
  • Catch mistakes before they land in the app
  • Final clean text types automatically when you release
  • Toggle on or off in tray settings
Email — New message
Hi team,

This quarter we want to focus on
What's inside

Small app. Surprisingly capable.

01 / 05

Faster than the keyboard

Runs Whisper large-v3-turbo on Groq, roughly 216× real time. A short sentence is back before your hands reach the keys.

02 / 05
v1.6 — new

See it land in real time.

A floating preview bar shows each chunk as it streams in. Catch a mistake or change direction — while you're still mid-sentence. Final clean text lands when you release the key.

03 / 05

Talk in one language, type in another.

Speak Dutch and get English text straight in your email — no copy-paste, no translation tab. AI translates and cleans up filler words at the same time. Any of 100+ language pairs.

04 / 05

Lives in every app

Not a window you paste from. Text appears in whatever has focus: mail, chat, docs, your editor — or the terminal.

05 / 05

Private by design

Audio is sent only to transcribe a clip and never stored. Switch to the on-device engine to work fully offline — no network, no cloud.

Lazytype
recording…
0.0s whisper-large-v3-turbo · groq
Notion — Meeting notes
Action items:
🇳🇱 Dutch
🇬🇧 English
you said
Stuur het voorstel naar Maria voor vrijdag, en cc ook het team.
AI translate
typed in your email
Please send the proposal to Maria by Friday, and cc the team as well.
Gmail
Hi Sarah,
Thanks for your
Slack
#general
Can we reschedule
Notion
Action items:
Listening
Your mic
transcribe only
Groq API
Audio is not stored. Text returns to you only.

100+ languages

Speak naturally in any of them. Lazytype detects your language automatically, with standout accuracy in English and Dutch.

Fully customizable hotkeys

Choose from Left Ctrl, Right Alt, Ctrl+Shift, F8–F10, and 10+ other combos. Assign different behaviors to each key.

v1.6

Realtime live preview

A floating bar shows words as they stream in — while you're still speaking. Catch mistakes before they land.

Yours to tune

Full settings dashboard: engine, language, postprocessing, hotkeys, history. One tray-click away, nothing buried.

v1.4

Context-aware tone

Reads the window around your cursor — email, chat, doc — and adjusts the tone: formal for email, casual for Slack.

Voice commands

Say "scratch that" to undo, "new line" or "new paragraph" to format as you go — hands never leave the keyboard.

Voice macros · v1.5

One app, three different superpowers.

Assign different AI behaviors to different hotkeys. One key dictates clean text, another translates as you speak, a third reshapes the last thing you wrote.

default
Left Ctrl

Dictate

Hold, speak, release. Lazytype transcribes your voice and types clean, punctuated text right where your cursor is.

🎙 "send the the deck to maria before noon and cc finance"
✓ Send the deck to Maria before noon, and cc finance.
translate
Right Alt

Translate

Speak in your native language and get translated text instantly — in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, or any target you set.

🌐 NL → EN   "stuur het voorstel voor vrijdag naar sarah"
✓ Please send the proposal to Sarah by Friday.
command
Ctrl+Shift

Command

Hold the key, speak a command like "make it shorter" or "make this formal" — Lazytype rewrites the last dictation. No keyboard, no clipboard.

⚡ "make this more concise"
✓ AI rewrites the last dictation in place.

All three hotkeys are fully configurable in the settings dashboard — choose any key combination you like.

Pricing

Try it free. Keep it your way.

Every plan starts with a 14-day trial, all features included. No card to start.

Personal
€25 once
Pay one time, use it forever. You bring your own free Groq key.
  • One-time payment, no subscription
  • Use your own free Groq key
  • All features, Windows & macOS
  • Offline on-device engine included
  • Realtime preview, voice macros, all v1.6 features
Start 14-day trial or start a 14-day trial

Prices include VAT where applicable · No card to start · Personal includes a 14-day money-back guarantee

Put your keyboard on a diet.

Download Lazytype, talk for a day, and see how much typing you don't miss.

macOS 12+ · ~35 MB · 14-day free trial · No signup required
FAQ

Good questions.

Personal is a one-time €25 license where you bring your own free Groq key, which takes about two minutes to set up. Pro is a subscription where we host the transcription for you, so there's no key and nothing to configure. Both include every feature — realtime preview, voice macros, context-aware tone — and the full 14-day trial.

Realtime preview (added in v1.6) shows your words in a floating bar as you speak — chunk by chunk, before you even stop. You can see where you're going, catch a mistake mid-sentence, or simply watch your thoughts arrive. When you release the key, the final clean text types into your app. You can toggle it on or off in the tray settings.

Voice macros (added in v1.5) let you assign different AI behaviors to different hotkeys. One key can dictate clean text, another can translate as you speak, and a third can run a command on the text you just wrote — like "make this shorter" or "make it formal". Everything is configurable in the settings dashboard.

Yes. Fourteen days, all features, no payment method required to begin. If it doesn't earn a place in your day, you simply stop.

It runs OpenAI's Whisper large-v3-turbo on Groq's inference hardware, around 216 times faster than real time. A few seconds of speech is transcribed in well under a second.

Audio is sent only to transcribe a clip and is not stored or reused. If you'd rather nothing leave your machine, switch to the built-in on-device engine and work fully offline.

More than 100, detected automatically. Accuracy is excellent in English and Dutch, and you can have your speech translated into another language as you dictate — or assign a dedicated translate hotkey for instant on-the-fly translation.

Yes — Lazytype is available for both Windows and macOS. Download the .dmg, drag it to Applications, and grant Accessibility, Input Monitoring, and Microphone permission in System Settings once. Same hold-to-talk flow, pastes with Cmd+V.