Turn a thought into a draft you can review.
Let the thought come first.
Hold F9 and speak.
Let’s take this one step at a time. The important thing is to get the idea down.
Hear selected text, one word at a time.
Some ideas are easier to follow
when we hear them.
Take your time with the words.
There is more than one way
to find your way through.
You can come back to it.
Image text. Handwritten notes.
Generated samples · Handwriting results vary
Press Ctrl + Alt + X once, then drag around the words. Windows recognizes them locally; an online voice reads them aloud.
Starry Night: the selected first line, “The night sky swirls”, is part of the painting’s pixels. The painting sits inside an article page. Handwriting: “Take one small step.” is the selected first line of the note.
Both samples and their word positions were checked with Windows OCR. These generated samples use silent, guided timing at about 195 words per minute, not recorded speech. Handwriting results vary with legibility. OCR language packs and an internet connection for reading are required.
Your voices, drafts and reading controls. All close at hand.
Light, dark, and high-contrast themes
Adjustable text size
Draft history, saved on your device
Hold F9 to dictate. Shift + F8 opens draft review. F5 reads selected text in supported apps. F6 pauses or continues reading; F7 goes to the previous sentence and F8 to the next. Ctrl + Alt + X starts the crop tool; press once, then drag.
Yes. Dictation becomes a saved draft. Edit, listen back or copy it, then choose insertion as a separate action.
Reading aloud and dictation need online services. Screen text recognition runs locally and depends on installed Windows language packs.
Drafts stay on your computer. Selected and cropped reading text stays in memory. Online voice services process the audio or text needed for speech.
The current word is accented while the surrounding screen dims. Exact word focus depends on available text positions and speech timing.
Voread for Windows is in development. The planned subscription is US$4 per week. A public installer is still in preparation.