Step 1
Voicy is a privacy-focused speech-to-text app. It adds the most advanced dictation technology to your Windows & Mac computer and allows you to write with your voice everywhere.
Step 2
Complete the setup (2-minutes)
and select your keyboard shortcut.
During the Voicy setup, you can select a keyboard shortcut to use to start and stop your recordings. It's the easiest way to use dictation on your computer.
Step 3
Start dictating to Voicy
Once Voicy is installed, you can use talk to text everywhere on your computer. This includes all of your apps and every website in your browser too!
Lilyspeech Alternative: Why Voicy is the Better Choice in 2025
While Lilyspeech served its purpose as an early voice-to-text tool, Voicy represents the next generation of dictation software.
Unlike Lilyspeech, which is limited to Windows and relies on older Google Chrome speech technology with noticeable transcription delays, Voicy works seamlessly across Mac, Windows, and all major browsers.
Voicy's AI-powered engine delivers transcriptions with automatic punctuation, grammar correction, and intelligent formatting.
Beyond basic dictation, Voicy offers powerful features like built-in ChatGPT voice commands, text translation, and an edit mode that lets you refine any text with your voice.
Privacy matters too: while Lilyspeech's free version collects user data for market research, Voicy takes a privacy-first approach, immediately deleting your recordings and transcriptions.
How can Voicy offer perfect accuracy at this low cost?
Lilyspeech uses Google's transcription software, which has drastically fallen behind the latest speech-to-text models.
The latest advancements in AI have given us incredibly fast, accurate, and privacy-friendly transcription technology.
We are able to offer this technology at a low price because we don't employ hundreds of sales, marketing, and engineering staff.
We like to stay small, keep our costs in check, and offer you a great product at a fair price.
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