Download VoiceTeX
The desktop app for Windows. Dictating needs a plan, from €29 a month. If you would rather see it work first, a one-off €1.99 buys 15 dictations.
Windows 10 and 11 · 73 MB
Downloading is free. Dictating is not: the app needs an account and a plan, from €29 a month. If you would rather see it work first, a one-off €1.99 buys 15 dictations and renews into nothing. Take one before you install and nothing will stop you.
Before you click
You will need an account, and a plan
On first launch the app shows a code and opens your browser to approve it — nothing to copy. Speech recognition then runs on your own machine, but turning it into LaTeX goes through our server, and that server checks your account: without a subscription or a trial it refuses the very first dictation. Take one first and the whole thing takes a minute.
Windows will warn you
We have not bought a code signing certificate yet, so Windows shows a blue “unrecognised app” screen. Click “More info”, then “Run anyway”. We would rather tell you that here than let it surprise you.
What stays on your machine
Your voice never leaves it — and neither does what you dictated. The app keeps a local history of every dictation, in plain text, for 90 days, then drops the older ones by itself. You can read it in the window, or erase all of it from the settings, at any time.
First launch downloads the speech model
About 500 MB, once. That model is what lets the app transcribe on your own machine instead of sending your voice anywhere.
Once it is running
- A window opens with what you have dictated so far and how much of your plan you have used. Behind the gear: your shortcut, your microphone, a live preview of the words as you speak them, and your plan. Close it and the app keeps running in the system tray — double-click the icon to bring it back. It checks for new versions on its own and downloads them in the background; nothing is installed until you click to restart.
- Press Ctrl+Alt+D, say your formula, press Ctrl+Alt+D again.
- The LaTeX is pasted where your cursor is, in whatever you were writing in. It gets there through your clipboard, so whatever you had copied is replaced — the Premium extensions insert without it.
Stuck on one of these steps, or nothing happens when you press the shortcut? Tell us which step, and what your screen shows. Write to us
macOS and Linux builds do not exist yet. Most of the app is portable Python, but three pieces call Windows directly — the single-instance lock, the beeps, and the way the live-dictation capsule avoids stealing focus. Each degrades cleanly elsewhere and each needs its own equivalent. It is work, not a redesign.