Teaching at the board
No tablet, no stylus, no fighting handwriting recognition mid-sentence. Say the equation and it appears, clean, on the shared screen your students are already watching.
Saying “integral from zero to infinity of e to the minus x squared dx” is faster than typing it. VoiceTeX listens, formats, and pastes the result where your cursor is.
Right now, the desktop app is the only way in.
sum from n equals one to infinity of one over n squared equals pi squared over six
\[ \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n^2} = \frac{\pi^2}{6} \]Anywhere you would rather think out loud than hunt for a backslash.
No tablet, no stylus, no fighting handwriting recognition mid-sentence. Say the equation and it appears, clean, on the shared screen your students are already watching.
The hard part of a proof is the thinking, not the typing. Keep the argument moving out loud and let the notation catch up, instead of breaking your train of thought to remember an environment name.
Nobody types LaTeX at the speed of a lecturer. Dictate between slides and leave with notes that compile, rather than photographs you will never transcribe.
Repetitive strain, an injury, a condition that makes a keyboard painful. Mathematical typesetting is among the most punishing things to type, and dictation removes the keyboard from the loop entirely.
A keyboard shortcut starts dictation from anywhere. Say the formula out loud, the way you would to a colleague.
Speech recognition runs on your own computer. Your audio goes nowhere — only the recognised text is sent to be formatted.
The result is pasted straight into Overleaf, VS Code, or any editor. Nothing to install on their side.
Nothing to integrate. The desktop app pastes LaTeX at your cursor, exactly as if you had typed it — so every editor already works, without knowing VoiceTeX exists.
Dictate with the shortcut, and the LaTeX lands in the editor at your cursor. One Ctrl+Z undoes it. It arrives through your clipboard, so whatever you had copied is replaced. A dedicated extension comes with Premium and does not need the clipboard — but nothing waits on it.
Same shortcut, same result, in any file. The Premium extension adds a status bar and inserts through the editor API — useful, not required.
Anywhere text can be typed, LaTeX can be dictated. Useful when you write about mathematics outside a LaTeX editor.
There is no list to be on. If the cursor blinks, the dictation lands there — the app never needs to know which program is in front.
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The desktop app transcribes locally, so no recording ever leaves your computer. Only the resulting text is sent for formatting. That holds on every plan sold today. Server-side transcription is planned for Premium and does not exist yet; the day it does, it will be the one case where audio leaves your machine, and this page will say so.