Speak anywhere. It types for you.
H-I Voice lives in your tray. Press the hotkey in any app, say what you mean, and the same speech model that powers chat dictation writes the words straight into the field you were already in.
Requires a Pro or Ultimate plan, or prepaid API credit. Compare plans
Download
Get H-I Voice
Download the Windows installer or portable build below. Your AI voice desktop app for voice computer and voice automation workflows.
How it works
Three keys and your voice
There is no window to switch to and no transcript to copy. The app watches for one hotkey and writes into whatever already had your cursor.
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Press the hotkey
Ctrl + Space by default, in any application. A white frame lights the edge of the display you are working on so you know it is listening.
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Say what you mean
The frame reacts to your voice while you talk. Press Esc at any point to throw the take away: nothing is typed, and no further audio is sent.
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The words land
Press the hotkey again and the text appears in the field you were already typing in. No window ever steals your focus.
Details
Built to stay out of the way
Two ways to trigger
Toggle mode presses once to start and once to finish. Hold mode records only while the key is down, and a tap shorter than 320ms latches recording on instead of discarding what you said.
The microphone is not held open
The input device is opened when a take starts and released the moment it ends or is cancelled, so your operating system never shows H-I Voice using the microphone while it sits idle in the tray.
Audio is not kept
Speech is captured in memory, encoded, sent for transcription in pieces while you talk, and dropped. No recording is written to disk or kept after the text comes back. The text of recent takes stays on your computer as a history you can clear or switch off. The optional polish step sends the transcript, and by default the name and title of the window you are typing into, to a chat model on your account.
Rebindable hotkey
Any combination with a modifier, or a bare function key. A modifier is required on purpose: a global shortcut swallows the key everywhere, so binding Space alone would stop you typing spaces in every application.
Insert or type
Text is inserted with the clipboard by default and the previous clipboard contents can be restored afterwards. Applications that block paste can be switched to synthetic typing.
Runs on login
Optionally starts hidden with your session and parks in the tray. Closing the window never quits the app; the hotkey keeps working until you quit from the tray.
Tokens
What it costs to talk
H-I Voice uses the Hi Voice speech model, metered exactly like everything else on your account. The app requires a Pro or Ultimate plan, or prepaid API credit on a free account.
Pro and Ultimate
Drawn from your subscription allowance, shown under the API key split.
Prepaid credit
$2.00 per 1M audio tokens in, $8.00 per 1M transcript tokens out.
Free accounts
Not supported in the desktop app. Dictation inside web chat stays free.
Roughly
About 2,400 audio tokens per minute of speech, plus the transcript.
Before you install
Worth knowing
A Pro or Ultimate plan, or prepaid credit
Sign in from the app with your Hashed Intelligence account, or paste an API key. The app checks your plan at sign-in and tells you straight away if the account cannot use it. Free accounts without prepaid credit are not able to dictate through the desktop app; dictation inside web chat is unaffected.
On Windows, the Store version installs without a warning
Apps from the Microsoft Store are signed by Microsoft, so Windows installs H-I Voice from there without asking. The installer and portable build on this page are not yet signed with a purchased Authenticode certificate, so Windows may show SmartScreen on first launch: choose More info, then Run anyway.
macOS asks for two permissions
Microphone, to hear you, and Accessibility, so the transcribed text can be pasted into the app you were using.
Linux needs a paste helper
Install xdotool on X11 or ydotool on Wayland if text does not land in the focused field. Hold-to-talk is Windows-only; toggle mode works everywhere.
Stop typing what you could say.
H-I Voice is a free download. Using it needs a Pro or Ultimate plan, or prepaid API credit on a free account.
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