Voica lives in your menu bar (or tray). Press a key, speak — and text with proper punctuation appears right where you're typing. In the cloud via Groq Whisper, or fully offline on your device.
Mac (13+, Apple Silicon) and Windows · free — bring your own Groq key or the local model
A switch right in Settings. Both engines are fast and add punctuation — choose what matters more: no disk space used, or no audio sent to the cloud.
Fast, accurate recognition on Groq's servers (whisper-large-v3-turbo). Nothing to download, zero disk footprint. Needs your own (free) Groq key and a connection.
Sber's GigaAM model runs entirely on your device — fast, no internet, no key. Audio never leaves your computer. Native Russian recognition with punctuation out of the box. One-time model download: ~400 MB on Mac, ~200 MB on Windows.
Why it's rare: native-Russian on-device dictation is an almost empty niche. Western apps target English; GigaAM is Sber's open model, strong on Russian.
Audio goes only to Groq for recognition — or nowhere at all with the local engine. Your key is kept in a protected file on your device. No backend, no telemetry, no accounts. Open source under MIT — see for yourself.
The default shortcut is Right Option on Mac, Right Alt on Windows. Your choice of mode: hold while speaking, or press once.
The menu-bar (tray) icon shows it's recording. Speak naturally — Voica handles the punctuation.
A second later the text is in your active field — and always on the clipboard, just in case.
Periods, commas, question marks, quotes, the letter ё — no manual cleanup.
Your names and jargon, plus AI fixing: "kubernetis" → Kubernetes.
Text lands right in the field — or an editable window, your choice.
Every transcript at hand: copy, play back the audio, delete.
Mixed speech is recognized; the UI follows your system language.
MIT, no cloud dependencies beyond your own Groq.
For the cloud engine, yes. The local engine works fully offline — no internet, no key, and audio never leaves your device.
Voica is free and open source under the MIT license. The cloud engine needs your own free Groq key; the local engine needs no key at all.
Russian and English, including mixed speech. The local GigaAM model is especially strong on Russian and adds punctuation out of the box.
Audio goes only to Groq for recognition — or nowhere at all with the local engine. No backend, no telemetry, no accounts; your key is kept in a protected file on your device.
macOS 13 and later (Apple Silicon) and Windows 10/11.
Yes. Both engines automatically add periods, commas, question marks and quotation marks — no manual cleanup.
Cloud is fast and accurate with nothing to download, but needs a key and internet. Local is private and offline, but the model downloads once (~400 MB on Mac, ~200 MB on Windows).
The app isn't signed with a developer certificate yet, so your system asks once: on macOS use “Open Anyway” in Privacy & Security, on Windows confirm the SmartScreen prompt. After that Voica opens normally.
Download and open it — drag to Applications (Mac) or run the .exe (Windows) — paste your Groq key, or switch on the local engine and work offline.
Mac 13+ (Apple Silicon) · Windows 10/11 · the app isn't signed yet — your system will ask once on first launch.