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What VoiceWink is

VoiceWink is voice-to-text for Windows 11. Type at the speed of speech. Press a hotkey and talk. The text lands where your cursor is, in any app. With App Mode, AI enhancement rewrites what you said for the app you are in: an email in Outlook, or a clean prompt for a coding agent such as Claude Code. Say “generate an image” and you get a picture instead.

Speech-to-text runs on the user’s own PC by default (NVIDIA Parakeet or Whisper, on the graphics card or the CPU). AI enhancement runs on the user’s PC too, with built-in AI models. It can also use the user’s own AI server, such as Ollama or LM Studio, or a cloud provider with the user’s own key. Voice-to-image uses the user’s own API key, at the provider’s prices. VoiceWink runs no cloud transcription service, and there is no VoiceWink account.

Facts sheet

ProductVoiceWink: voice-to-text for Windows 11 with per-app AI enhancement
PlatformWindows 11 (x64 & arm64). Per-user install, no admin rights; the installer is signed by DV Studio through Microsoft Trusted Signing and keeps itself up to date.
PriceOne-time: $25 (1 PC) · $39 (2 PCs) · $49 (3 PCs). Prices in USD, VAT included, billed in USD at checkout; for euro customers approx. €22 / €34 / €42, depending on your bank’s exchange rate. No subscription. Updates are free when released.
Try before buying7-day full-featured trial that starts inside the app: no key, no email, no card. 30-day money-back guarantee after purchase.
Built-in speech modelsNVIDIA Parakeet (25 European languages) and Whisper (100 languages); GPU acceleration through Vulkan when a graphics card is available, CPU otherwise.
Built-in AI enhancementRewrites the dictated text on the user’s PC with built-in AI models, downloaded once in the app. It can also use the user’s own AI server, such as Ollama or LM Studio.
Optional cloud, bring your own keyTranscription: OpenAI, Groq, Deepgram, ElevenLabs. AI enhancement: Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Groq, Mistral, OpenRouter, Cerebras. Voice-to-image: OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter. Keys are stored encrypted on the user’s PC and go only to the provider the user chose.
PrivacyOn the user’s PC by default. Nothing leaves the machine unless the user turns on a cloud feature or their own AI server, apart from the license check, the update check, a few one-time counts (for example when an installation or a free trial starts), and the download of a chosen speech or AI model. Crash reporting is opt-in. Full policy: privacy.
Source codeGPL v3: github.com/dvstudio-app/VoiceWink. The paid license buys the signed Windows build, with updates free when released; self-compiling is free.
OriginA Windows app inspired by VoiceInk (macOS, also GPL v3), built in .NET and WinUI 3.
PublisherDV Studio (Dieter Verlaeckt), Belgium. support@dvstudio.app
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VoiceWink is voice-to-text for Windows 11: press a hotkey, talk, and the text lands where your cursor is. With App Mode, AI enhancement rewrites what you said for the app you are in: an email in Outlook, a clean prompt for a coding agent. Say “generate an image” and you get a picture. Speech recognition and AI enhancement run on the user’s own PC by default, with built-in models; the optional cloud features use the user’s own API keys at the provider’s prices. VoiceWink is sold once, from $25, with a 7-day trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee, and its full source is published under GPL v3. It is built by DV Studio, a one-person software studio in Belgium.

Who builds it

Portrait of Dieter Verlaeckt

I’m Dieter Verlaeckt, a solo developer in Belgium, and I build VoiceWink for my own daily use: dictating to coding agents all day, I wanted VoiceInk on Windows, found nothing like it, and built it. DV Studio is my trade name. No funding, no team.

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