Koegaki vs Windows Voice Typing

If you are online, the document is not sensitive, and you only dictate occasionally, Windows voice typing is free and already installed. Use it.

Your voice stays on your PC. Windows voice typing sends your speech to Microsoft's servers to be recognised. Koegaki runs the speech model locally, so it works on a plane, behind a corporate firewall, and on documents you are not allowed to send anywhere.

Hold-to-talk. Hold Ctrl+Alt+D, or a shortcut you choose, speak, and release. There is no bar to open; releasing the key ends capture, and Koegaki then transcribes and inserts what you said. A program running as administrator is the exception: Windows does not let an ordinary app type into it, so Koegaki copies the text for you to paste.

Custom words and replacements. Add a name as a custom word and Koegaki writes it your way when it hears it split, hyphenated or with a different apostrophe, though a lone lowercase letter, as in “x code”, usually stays a word of its own. With the English speech model, the default, custom words also help Koegaki hear your names and terms, not just spell them: words on your list are recognised more often, and they still never leave your PC. Say a short word and a replacement types the full phrase. The spelling and the replacement are rules applied on your PC, the same way every time.