Speak anywhere Windows
lets you type. Your voice never
leaves your machine.
Hold a hotkey, talk, release — your words are transcribed on your own computer and pasted into whatever app you're in. No cloud, no account, no subscription.
By purchasing, you agree to the ALAN Echo License Agreement.
✓ One-time purchase · 30-day money-back guarantee
✓ Works in airplane mode — turn off Wi-Fi and dictate
Three keys, one breath, done.
Hold the hotkey
Press and hold Ctrl+Shift+Space in any Windows app — your email, a doc, a terminal, the Explorer rename box.
Say the sentence
Talk normally. The bundled speech model listens on your machine — there's no round-trip to a server, so there's nothing to wait for.
It pastes itself
Let go. The transcribed text lands at your cursor, cleaned up and ready. Cancel a take with Ctrl+Shift+X.
Speaking is roughly three times faster than typing — the sentence is at your cursor before you'd have finished the first clause.
Private by architecture.
The model runs on your computer.
100% on-device dictation: the speech model runs on your computer. Your audio and transcripts never leave your machine — there is no upload code in the dictation path, no telemetry, and no analytics in the app. The only network calls Echo ever makes are the ones you'd expect: license activation, optional update checks, and optional model downloads. Never your voice.
Turn off Wi-Fi. Dictate.
Everything works. That's the whole audit — you don't need to take our word for it, and you don't need a network inspector. If it runs with the network off, nothing left the machine. (You'll only need a connection to activate a license or download an optional model.)
Built for the way you actually work.
Fast on ordinary hardware
Roughly one second for short dictations on a modern laptop CPU. No GPU required — the work happens locally, so there's no cloud latency to wait on.
Auto-paste anywhere
Email, docs, chat, terminals, code editors, CRM fields, the rename box in Explorer — anywhere Windows lets you type, Echo can put text.
Filler-word cleanup
Three levels of cleanup quietly trim the ums, uhs and you-knows as you speak — so what lands at your cursor reads like writing, not a transcript.
A local transcript library
Every dictation is saved and searchable on your machine. Find an old paragraph in seconds; export the lot to CSV or plain text whenever you like.
Lives in your tray
Resident in the system tray with a mic picker and a dark or light theme. Out of the way until you hold the key — then instantly there.
A tunable engine
Swap in larger Whisper models when you want more accuracy. Drop one in and Echo loads it automatically — the engine grows with your needs.
Have an NVIDIA card? One click makes Echo several times faster — a free 440 MB pack it downloads and installs itself.
Works without it on any CPU. AMD/Intel Vulkan pack available in beta.
Software you own is becoming a niche product. This is one.
$89, once. About seven months of a typical cloud dictation subscription — except it runs forever, offline, on your terms. No renewal that can lapse, no price that can creep, no servers that can have an outage on your deadline.
Own it once. Dictate forever.
- ✓Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit
- ✓Bundled English speech model — offline out of the box
- ✓A license for every machine you personally use
- ✓All 1.x updates included
- ✓Instant delivery — key in your account
- ✓30-day money-back guarantee
By purchasing, you agree to the ALAN Echo License Agreement.
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- ✓Everything in Individual, per seat
- ✓Centralized license management
- ✓Silent MSI install — dictation is 100% on-device
- ✓Volume discounts that scale with seats
- ✓Consolidated invoicing & priority support
Download free to try — 5 dictations per day, 50 total. Buy to unlock unlimited dictation. 30-day money-back guarantee on every purchase.
What it asks of your machine.
English included out of the box; 9 more languages in beta via a free multilingual model download. On an NVIDIA card, GPU acceleration is one click in Settings — AMD/Intel Vulkan pack available in beta.
Questions, answered plainly.
+Why does Windows warn me when I install?
+Is my audio ever uploaded?
+What happens right after I pay?
+I got a new computer — does my key still work?
+How accurate is it, and can I use a bigger model?
+Do you support my GPU?
+What languages does it support?
+Is there a subscription or an account?
+Is there a free trial?
+Does Echo work on Mac?
+What's the refund policy?
Your voice. Your machine.
Your software.
By purchasing, you agree to the ALAN Echo License Agreement.
✓ One-time purchase · 30-day money-back guarantee