You think faster
than you type.
Hold a key, talk, and Loquent types what you said into whatever app you're in, without the ums and false starts. Start with "Hey Lucy" and it writes the reply for you. It also records meetings and writes the notes.
Free with a Loquent account (Google or email). Offline dictation has no word limit.
3x
faster than typing
~150
words a minute, spoken
49
languages
Typical rates. In a Stanford study, people entered text about 3x faster by voice than by keyboard (Ruan et al., 2016).
Trailer
Meet Lucy
Lucy lives inside Loquent. In under two minutes she shows you dictation, "Hey Lucy", meetings and sharing. Turn the sound on to hear her.
Dictation
Talk, and it types where your cursor is
It works in any app you can type in. Watch the pill at the bottom: it listens, tidies up what you said, and pastes it.
Hold Ctrl+; and talk. When you let go, the tidy version is pasted where your cursor is: no ums or repeated words, and the punctuation is added for you.
Polished or Express
Polished fixes grammar, punctuation and filler words. Express types exactly what you said with no AI step, so it is the fastest.
Dictionary and snippets
Add names and terms so they come out spelled right. Say a snippet, like "my address", and the text you saved for it is pasted.
History
Your recent dictations stay in the app, so you can copy one or paste it again later.
Audio is not kept
Dictation audio is never saved. In offline mode it never leaves your computer.
Meetings
Windows Mac ChromeMeeting notes you can share
Loquent records both sides of a call, writes down who said what, and turns it into a summary. Then send a link, and people read it in their browser.
Start recording before the call. Your microphone is labelled You and the call is labelled Them, and the transcript fills in while people talk.
Both sides of the call
Your microphone and the sound of the call are recorded together, so the transcript has everyone in it.
Play it back, fix it
Click a timestamp to hear that moment, or click a line to fix a word. The desktop app exports TXT, Markdown or SRT.
Three kinds of notes
A summary, a list of action items, or detailed notes by topic. A short chat gets a short summary, not made-up tasks.
Shared without the audio
The link carries the title, summary and transcript. The recording stays on your computer.
On a Mac, hearing the call needs macOS 13.2 or later and the Screen & System Audio Recording permission.
Where it works
Windows, Mac and Chrome
One free account signs you in on all three, and your dictionary, snippets and settings come with you.
Windows
Windows 10 or 11
- Hold Ctrl+; in any app and talk.
- Dictate offline on your computer or through the cloud.
- Records meetings: your microphone and the call audio.
Mac
macOS 12 or later
- Hold Fn in any app and talk. Until you allow Accessibility, Ctrl+Shift+Space works instead.
- Dictate offline on your Mac or through the cloud.
- Records meetings. Hearing the call needs macOS 13.2 or later and the Screen & System Audio Recording permission.
Chrome extension
Chrome, Edge, Brave
- Press Ctrl+Shift+Space on any website. The same pill shows up in the page.
- Records a meeting in a tab, like Google Meet or Zoom and Teams in the browser, with your microphone. Alt+Shift+M starts it. Meetings are saved in your browser.
- Nothing to install on the computer. It always uses the cloud, so it counts toward the free 2,000 words a week.
It types into anything with a text cursor. A few of the places people use it:
Gmail
Slack
VS Code
GitHub
Notion
Outlook
Discord
Microsoft Word
Google Docs
Figma
Telegram
WhatsApp
Microsoft Teams
Excel
Terminal
Obsidian
Linear
Jira
Chrome
Firefox
ArcOffline mode
What offline mode asks of your computer
Every account can dictate offline, for free and with no word limit. In offline mode your computer does the work that our servers would otherwise do, and here is what that means in practice. Every model below is available on the free account.
A one-time download
The first time you use offline mode, Loquent downloads a speech model (142 MB for English). An AI model for cleanup is optional and starts at about 0.6 GB.
A burst of work each time you talk
When you stop talking, your processor or graphics card runs flat out for a moment to turn the audio into text. On a recent computer that takes a second or two. On an older or low-power laptop it can take several seconds, and you may hear the fan.
Memory while it runs
The models stay loaded while Loquent is in offline mode, so they use roughly their download size in memory. Switch to the cloud and they are unloaded.
Don't want your computer doing this work? Switch to the cloud and our servers do it instead: 2,000 words a week on the free account, unlimited on Pro.
Speech models (turn your voice into text)
| Model | Download | Languages |
|---|---|---|
| Tiny Fastest, makes more mistakes | 75 MB | English |
| Basedefault The default. Good for everyday English | 142 MB | English |
| Small Smallest one for other languages | 466 MB | 49 |
| Medium Accurate, but slow without a graphics card | 1.5 GB | 49 |
| Turbo Most accurate. Needs an NVIDIA graphics card on Windows, or Apple silicon on a Mac | 1.6 GB | 49 |
AI cleanup models (optional)
| Model | Download |
|---|---|
| Small Fixes punctuation and filler words. The smallest download. | about 0.6 GB |
| Medium Recommended. | 1.1 to 1.3 GB |
| Large Best offline results, and the size to use for offline translation. Needs a powerful computer. | 2.4 to 2.8 GB |
What cleanup does, with an example
The same sentence, tidied by the small offline model and by the cloud.
"So um basically I was like thinking about, you know, the uh meeting tomorrow and I think we should probably like discuss the budget stuff and um maybe also talk about the um new hire situation"
"So basically I was thinking about the meeting tomorrow and I think we should discuss the budget stuff and also talk about the new hire situation."
"I was thinking about tomorrow's meeting. We should discuss the budget and the new hire situation."
Pricing
Free to start. Pro if you use it a lot.
Everyone uses Loquent with a free account. Dictating offline, where your own computer does the work, is unlimited. Dictating through the cloud, where our servers do it, is 2,000 words a week for free and unlimited on Pro.
Beta pricing. Subscribe now and you keep this price.
Billed in Philippine pesos: ₱299 a month or ₱2,999 a year. Your bank converts it, so the amount in dollars can move a little.
Free
Free accountUnlimited offline. 2,000 cloud words a week.
Sign in with a free Loquent account (Google or email), then pick who turns your voice into text. Offline, your own computer does it: nothing you say leaves it and there's no limit, but it downloads a model once and works hard for a second or two each time you talk. Cloud, our servers do it: quick and accurate even on an old laptop, for 2,000 words a week (roughly 15 to 20 emails).
- Unlimited offline dictation
- 2,000 cloud words a week
- Meeting notes and share links
- 15 dictionary words, 10 snippets
Good for: Most people, and anyone who wants to dictate offline.
Pro
or $48 a year, about 2 months free
The free account, without the limits.
Same servers, same models and the same speed as the free account. Pro removes the limits: no weekly cap on cloud words, and as many dictionary words and snippets as you like. Cancel anytime.
- Unlimited cloud words, in the app and the Chrome extension
- Unlimited dictionary words and snippets
- Download shared meetings without the Loquent branding
Good for: People who dictate through the cloud every day.
Free and Pro, side by side
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Offline dictation (your computer does the work) | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Cloud dictation (our servers do the work) | 2,000 words/week* | Unlimited |
| Offline speech and AI cleanup models | All | All |
| AI cleanup, "Hey Lucy" and translation | ||
| Meeting notes (Windows, Mac, Chrome) | ||
| Share a meeting with a link | ||
| Download shared meetings without Loquent branding | ||
| Dictionary words | 15 | Unlimited |
| Snippets | 10 | Unlimited |
| Languages | 49** | 49** |
* A dictation counts as cloud if any step of it used our servers. Offline dictation never counts. The same 2,000 words cover the app and the Chrome extension, and meetings transcribed in the cloud count too. The Chrome extension always uses the cloud.
** In the cloud, all 49 work straight away. The default offline speech model only understands English. A bigger download (466 MB or more) covers all 49.
Not sure which one?
- Just trying it? Start with the free account and upgrade later if you need to.
- Newer computer, or you want nothing to leave it? Use offline mode. It's free and has no word limit.
- Older laptop, or you want the best accuracy? Use the cloud. The first 2,000 words each week are free.
- Hitting the 2,000-word limit most weeks? That's when Pro is worth it. If you only hit it now and then, offline dictation keeps working until the week resets.
FAQ
Questions & answers
The things people usually ask before downloading.
Try it on your next email.
Free to download. Sign in with a free Loquent account (Google or email), then choose whether your computer or our servers turn your voice into text.
Windows 10/11 & macOS 12+ · Chrome, Edge, Brave