Shortcut
Start where your hands already are.
Hold a key, tap a toggle, double-tap a modifier, or let auto mode listen for speech.
Dictate into the app you already use.
Speak once and DuckType puts the finished text at your cursor. It works across desktop apps, with shortcuts, styles, local models, your own keys, or hosted AI.
Cursor workflow
From speech to cursor without a transcript detour.
DuckType treats dictation as input, not as another document you have to manage. Start a recording, speak the thought, let the selected style run, then continue in the app that already has your attention.
Speech
Talk in a normal sentence.
DuckType records the utterance from your desktop without needing a browser extension.
Style
Apply a style before insertion.
Use a built-in style, custom style, or one-off restyle to shape the result before it lands.
Insert
The text appears at the cursor.
DuckType can paste normally or type keystrokes for remote desktops and paste-resistant apps.
Every app
If the app accepts typing, it can accept your voice.
DuckType inserts text at the operating-system level. Automatic mode uses clipboard paste for normal apps and typed keystrokes for remote desktops or apps that block paste, so it does not need a special integration for each app.
Chat and AI
Draft prompts, replies, and long-form instructions without breaking flow.
ClaudeChatGPTGeminiPerplexity
Code and terminals
Dictate commit messages, issue notes, shell comments, and agent instructions.
Claude CodeCursorVS CodeTerminal
Notes and docs
Capture rough thinking into the document or note that should own it.
DuckType NotesObsidianNotionApple Notes
Browsers
Fill text fields, support forms, CMS editors, and web apps from the desktop.
SafariChromeArcFirefox
Remote desktops
Use typed keystrokes when remote sessions block clipboard paste.
CitrixWindows AppWindows 365Remote Desktop
Messages and mail
Speak quick replies, then edit in place before sending.
SlackDiscordMailMessages
Ways to start
Pick the trigger that disappears into muscle memory.
Short thoughts, long drafts, and hands-free stretches want different controls. DuckType lets you map dictation to the gesture that fits the moment.
Hold to record
Hold Fn while you speak, release when you are done.
holdFn
Start and stop
Tap once for longer dictation, tap again to finish.
tapCtrlSpace
Double-tap
Double-tap a modifier key when a chord would get in the way.
doubleShiftShift
Auto mode
Voice activity detection splits speech and pastes each utterance.
listenVAD
What lands at the cursor
You said
um can you write a short update saying the windows build is live and smart screen is expected on first run
Styled
The Windows build is live. SmartScreen is expected on first run.
Formatted
Windows build is live. First run may show SmartScreen. Click More info, then Run anyway.
Output
Raw transcription is only the first draft.
Styles and skills can rewrite, translate, or format text before DuckType pastes it. Language settings and dictionaries keep the output closer to how you actually write.
Regional spelling
Pick the variant once and stop correcting the same words by hand.
color to colour
analyze to analyse
Your vocabulary
Add names, acronyms, and product terms that generic models miss.
+ TanStack Start
+ Cloudflare Workers
+ Acme onboarding
Romanization
Keep original script and readable Latin text close together.
東京 tokyo
你好 ni hao
한국 hanguk
Control and ownership
Choose where transcription runs and where the history lives.
Use local models for privacy, your own provider keys for unlimited usage, or hosted AI when you want the setup handled. Your dictation history stays usable.
Offline models
Run local transcription on-device when the audio should stay on your computer.
Bring your own key
Use OpenAI, Groq, Deepgram, ElevenLabs, Mistral, or Cloudflare directly.
Hosted AI when useful
Use DuckType-hosted transcription and skills when speed matters more than setup.
Undo the last paste
If a dictation misfires, remove the inserted text without digging through the field.
History on disk
Search past dictations, copy them again, or feed them into another workflow.
100+ languages
Switch language by shortcut and code-switch mid-sentence when that is how you speak.
After dictation
The transcript can become the next thing.
Dictation is often only the input step. DuckType can run skills on the result, translate it, generate text-to-speech audio, and keep those outputs connected to the original text.
source transcript
Please turn this into a launch update, translate it for the French site, then generate an audio version for the changelog.
Skill
launch update
Translate
fr-FR
Speech
audio saved
Run saved skills
Turn a dictation into a summary, bug report, meeting follow-up, commit message, or any prompt you save.
Skill: release note
Translate the result
Send the same text through a translation skill when the output needs to land in another language.
English to French
Text-to-speech
Generate spoken audio from a transcription or skill result when the final asset needs to be heard.
Voice: product update
Keep every output
Dictations, skill results, translations, and generated speech can stay attached to the same source text.
History: source plus outputs
Put voice where your cursor already is.
Download DuckType and dictate into the apps you use every day.