Productivity

Vowen

The voice interface for your computer.

Vowen is an on-device speech-to-text app for Mac and Windows that goes well past "speak, get text." Most voice tools stop at dictation and formatting. Vowen treats your voice as an input layer for the whole machine. Dictation. Hold a hotkey and talk into any app with a cursor. 100+ languages transcribed natively, live translation to English, filler words and false starts stripped before the text lands, custom vocabulary for the words only you say, and per-app custom instructions so one sentence arrives casual in Slack and formal in email. Unlimited, with no per-word caps. Runs locally by default, so your audio never leaves your machine - or bring your own cloud key when you want more accuracy. Command mode. Hold a different key and talk about what's in front of you. Vowen reads your selection, the active window, or a region you drag to capture, does the work, and types the result right at your cursor. "Reply to this email, polite but firm on the deadline." "Summarize this PDF into five bullets." "Explain what this error means." Meeting notes. Vowen detects when you're on a call and offers to record. You get speaker-labelled transcripts, summaries structured by your own templates, and a chat interface to ask any meeting what was decided and who owns what. Exports to Obsidian, PDF, Markdown, SRT/VTT, or any webhook. Workflows and utilities. Build trigger phrases that open apps, folders and sites, or run scripts on your machine. Native utilities do by voice what used to take clicks: set timers, translate, convert media, compress images, merge PDFs, extract colours. Connectors. Link Linear, Notion, GitHub, Vercel and more over MCP, so a spoken command can search, create and update in the tools you already use - plus computer use, webhooks, and any OpenAI-compatible or custom API endpoint. It's for anyone whose hands are the bottleneck: engineers prompting AI editors, writers drafting at talking speed, founders who need every call on record, students turning lectures into notes. No account required, works offline, and no subscription.