Productive Voice Buy $39
Coming soon · Windows 10/11 · $39 one-time

Pay once. Dictate anywhere
on Windows.

Productive Voice is a $39 lifetime dictation overlay. Your keys, your data, no subscription. Speak into any app: email, docs, code, chat.

Buy for $39 Try free for 30 days

About $2.30 a month to run. You pay Deepgram directly, on your own key: 10 minutes of speech a day, at about $0.008 a minute.

One-time payment
30-day free trial, no card
No account needed
Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit
Screen recording: Productive Voice on Windows
A real recording of the app on Windows: start, listen, stop, and the text lands at the cursor. 15 seconds, no sound. For this take, a script supplied the sentence in place of a live microphone. Raw dictation, with no AI formatting.
Press CtrlShiftSpace from anywhere, even fullscreen video calls.
Example · Optional formatting

From raw transcript to a tidy email.

An example of AI formatting, which is optional and runs through your own AI provider key, such as OpenRouter.

—▢×
Raw transcript
What you say 00:00:08
hey sarah um could you send me the q2 numbers when you get a chance also let's sync about the launch on thursday i was thinking maybe two pm yeah and uh make sure to loop in marcus from product okay thanks
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Formatted output: Email style
What gets pasted Formatted
Subject: Q2 numbers + Thursday launch sync

Hi Sarah,

Could you send me the Q2 numbers when you get a chance?

Also, let's sync about the launch on Thursday at 2pm. Please loop in Marcus from product.

Thanks!

Listening
USP 01 · Workflow

Never leave the
window you're in.

Productive Voice is a floating pill that lives over every app on your screen. Word, VS Code, Outlook, your browser: it doesn't matter. Hit the hotkey, speak, and the text lands at your cursor.

Stays out of your way The pill floats on top. Your active window stays focused the whole time.
Starts on the first syllable Your words stream in real time via your own Deepgram key. No waiting for the recording to end: transcription begins on the first syllable.
Lands at your cursor Text appears exactly where you'd have typed it. No window switching, no copy-paste dance.
View all features
—▢×
VS Code: README.md
# Installation
Download the Productive Voice installer, run it, and the overlay is ready. The installer sets up the global hotkey and starts with Windows automatically.
—▢×
Outlook: Reply
To: sarah@studio.com
Subject: Q2 budget review
Hi Sarah, attaching the updated forecasts.
—▢×
Slack: #design-review
@marcus
Heads up, the v2 mocks are ready
Dictating
Your machine Trust boundary
Microphone
Captured on press
Productive Voice app
Local binary
Encrypted history
AES-256-GCM at rest
Audio · TLS
Text · TLS
Your API accounts BYOK
Deepgram
Transcription · your key
OpenRouter
Formatting · your key
Provider of choice
Swap any time
Not in path
Productive Voice servers Account database Telemetry Audio storage Transcript logs
Bypassed
USP 02 · Privacy

Your voice never
touches our servers.

Productive Voice is Bring-Your-Own-Key. Your audio goes directly from your microphone to Deepgram, under your own account. We never see it. We never store it. We're just the pipeline.

AES-256-GCM encryption at rest Your API keys and history are encrypted on this PC, with a key derived from its machine ID. This protects them at rest, not from software that already runs under your Windows account.
No usage analytics No analytics, and no crash reports sent anywhere. The app does check your licence and look for updates. What you dictate is yours alone.
Read the privacy architecture

The app's licence checks are separate and are described in the Privacy Policy.

Early users

"It feels like cheating."

"We rolled Productive Voice out across our engineering team after the trial. The two-stage pipeline is what sold us: Deepgram for accuracy, an LLM for formatting. Pull request descriptions, Jira comments, and Slack threads now take a third of the time."
Marcus Reinholt
Marcus Reinholt
Engineering Lead, Halberd Systems
"I dictate clinical notes between patients. The BYOK model was non-negotiable for me: I can't have patient audio sitting on a third-party server. Productive Voice was the only tool I tried that met both privacy and speed requirements."
Dr Anya Patel
Dr Anya Patel
GP, Wellfield Practice
"Style snippets are the killer feature. One hotkey for client email tone, another for casual Slack. I haven't touched the keyboard for a long-form message in about six weeks."
Tomás Echevarría
Tomás Echevarría
Senior PM, Lyrebird Analytics
vs. Others

Dictation you buy once, not rent.

Most alternatives charge every year or cost far more. Productive Voice is $39, once.

A true-to-scale comparison. A single $39 block stands beside a stack of $15 monthly discs. The stack passes the block after 11 weeks, and reaches $180 after 1 year, $540 after 3 years and $900 after 5 years.

Compared with a subscription at $15 a month ($180 a year), such as Wispr Flow Pro billed monthly. Transcription runs on your own Deepgram key, which Deepgram bills to you directly at about $0.008 a minute: about $2.30 a month for 10 minutes of speech a day.
You save $309 over 3 years against Wispr Flow Pro billed yearly: $123 for Productive Voice ($39 once, plus about $28 a year to Deepgram) against $432 ($144 a year). That is Deepgram at 10 minutes of speech a day, for raw dictation. Optional AI formatting adds a little more. Deepgram's $200 signup credit would cover that usage for about 7 years.

Prices checked on 10 November 2026.

Buy for $39 Try free for 30 days
Compare six dictation tools
Price
Platform
One-time?
Your keys?
Overlay?
Productive Voice
$39 once
Windows
Wispr Flow
$144–180/yr
Mac, Windows, iOS, Android
Superwhisper
$85/yr or $250 once
Mac, Windows, iOS, Android
VoiceInk
$25–49 once
Mac and iOS
Dragon
About $699
Windows
Windows Voice Typing
Free
Windows

Prices and platforms checked on each vendor's own site on 10 November 2026. Dragon prices are from resellers. Superwhisper's keys and lifetime option are on its Pro plan. Verify before purchasing.

Side by side: vs Wispr Flow · vs Dragon · vs Superwhisper

See detailed feature comparison
Common questions

Answers before you ask.

Built for people who want to know exactly what they're buying.

Do I need a subscription?
No. $39 once, lifetime updates included. There is no monthly or annual fee to us.
What does dictation cost after that?
You pay Deepgram directly, at about $0.008 a minute of audio: about $2.30 a month for 10 minutes of speech a day. New Deepgram accounts currently get a $200 credit, about 430 hours of speech. We never bill you for usage; we are not in that transaction at all.
What is an API key and is setup hard?
An API key is a password-like string you copy from Deepgram's website and paste into Productive Voice's setup screen. No coding required. See the step-by-step guide with screenshots.
Where does my audio go?
From your machine directly to your own Deepgram account over TLS. We run no servers for audio or text, and we collect no usage analytics. Your audio never passes through anything we operate. The app contacts our licence server to check your licence, and GitHub to check for updates. No audio or text is sent to either.
What is the refund policy?
14-day refund, no questions asked. Full details at Refund.html. Payments are processed securely by Stripe.
More answers (7)
Do I need an AI or LLM key too?
No. With just the Deepgram key and Raw dictation mode switched on in Settings, speech is transcribed and pasted directly, no LLM involved. If you want AI formatting styles (email tone, code comments, bullets), you can optionally add an OpenRouter, Anthropic, or OpenAI key later.
Does it work on Mac or Linux?
Windows 10 and 11 only today. A Mac build is on the long-term roadmap but has no committed date.
How many machines can I use it on?
One device per licence key. If you need to move to a new machine you can deactivate and reactivate your licence.
Is there a trial?
Yes: 30 days, fully featured, no credit card required. Download the installer and the trial starts on first run.
Does Productive Voice work in every Windows app?
Yes: any app that accepts a text cursor accepts Productive Voice output. That includes Word, Outlook, Slack, Discord, Notion, Excel cells, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, browser address bars, and every text field in every native or web app we've tested. The exception is an app running as administrator: Windows blocks the paste unless Productive Voice also runs as administrator.
Will the hotkey clash with my existing shortcuts?
The default is Ctrl + Shift + Space. You can rebind it in Settings → Advanced → Recording Shortcuts. A shortcut must include Ctrl, Shift or Alt. Productive Voice does not check whether another app already uses a combination, so if the hotkey does not respond, pick another.
Why $39 once instead of a subscription?
Because the heavy lifting is done by Deepgram, which you pay directly. We are not running transcription servers on your behalf. Charging monthly for software you have already installed would be a markup with no underlying cost. Build it well, charge fairly, move on.
A note from the founder

Why I built Productive Voice.

R. Tanaka, founder of Productive Voice

I hand-typed the same Slack updates, code comments, and client emails for years. Every dictation tool I tried was a server-side privacy nightmare, a subscription trap, or so badly formatted I spent as long editing.

Productive Voice is what I wished existed: one hotkey, your own API keys, your audio going to your own Deepgram account. Pay once, own it forever. No tracking, no account, no AI hype.

If it's not exactly that for you, email me for a 14-day refund, no questions asked.

R. Tanaka · Founder, Productive Voice
Tokyo · 2026

Skip the subscription markups.

$39 once: lifetime licence, one device, all future updates. 30-day free trial, no card. 14-day refund.

Buy for $39 Try free for 30 days

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