Guides

Understand the tool. Make it part of your day.

Practical explanations for the questions that come before and after your first dictation. Start with setup, then choose the workflow and data controls that fit your needs.

01

Getting started

Your first voice-typed sentence, step by step.

Set up Whispek voice typing on Windows: install, choose a microphone and speech language, check the shortcut and dictate a first sentence.

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02

Choosing a workflow

Voice typing and transcription overlap. The job is different.

Understand voice typing, speech-to-text and transcription. Choose a tool for writing a draft, converting a recording or keeping a conversation record.

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03

Privacy guide

Local history and cloud processing are different things.

Understand what Whispek sends for speech recognition and AI processing, what stays in local history, and how dictionary learning and deletion controls differ.

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04

Free dictation software

Choose free voice typing by the work you need done.

Compare free voice typing options on Windows: built-in dictation, browser notepads and Whispek Free. Check included features, limits and your writing workflow.

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05

Language settings

Set the language you read and the languages you speak.

Keep Whispek display language separate from speech recognition. Use automatic detection or up to four service-supported language hints, and fix unavailable choices.

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06

Troubleshooting

Find the step where voice typing stopped.

Find why voice typing failed: shortcut, microphone, processing or text insertion. Check Windows permissions, input focus, sign-in and allowance, then recover your text.

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07

Whisper & Windows dictation

Whisper voice typing on Windows: choose your workflow.

Looking for a Whisper Windows app? Compare local Whisper tools with cloud dictation, including setup, offline use, text fields and cleanup.

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Choose free voice typing software

Distinguish a trial, a free plan, built-in dictation and browser notepads. Choose by included tools, recurring allowance and where you write.

Free dictation software for Windows: how to chooseWhispek Free features and allowance

Get started

Install the current Windows app, choose your microphone, check the shortcut and create a short draft. Includes recovery steps for a missing microphone or text that does not appear.

Voice typing or transcription?

Learn the difference between writing into a text field, converting speech into text and keeping a record of a conversation. Choose by the job you need done.

Understand voice typing privacy

Separate the questions of where data is processed, where history is saved, which information is shared and how you can control it. Local history does not mean offline processing.

Choose a Whisper workflow on Windows

Compare the Whisper model, local implementations, finished desktop tools and cloud dictation. Start with the task you need: transcribing a recording or writing into an app.

Whisper voice typing on Windows: apps and alternatives

GOOD QUESTIONS

A few things worth knowing.

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Are these guides for the current app?

The setup guidance describes the current Windows app. Mac is planned and does not yet have public installation instructions.

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