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Productive Voice vs Windows voice typing

A Windows voice typing alternative
for daily dictation.

You already have voice typing on Windows. Press Win H and it works. Productive Voice is for people who dictate often and want more control over the text. Here is where each one is the better choice.

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No card for the trial · $39 once · 14-day refund

At a glance

Feature
Productive Voice
Windows voice typing
Price
$39 once, plus Deepgram usage
Part of Windows 10 and 11. Nothing to buy
Hotkey
Ctrl Shift Space
Win H
Needs internet
Yes, audio goes to your Deepgram account
Yes, per Microsoft (online speech recognition)
Where your audio goes
Straight to your own Deepgram account
To Microsoft, which says it uses Azure Speech services
Custom dictionary
Yes: Yes, stored on your PC
Not mentioned on Microsoft's page
AI formatting
Optional, with a model of your choice on your own account
Fluid dictation on Copilot+ PCs only, English only
Voice commands
Voices reformat what you said
Yes, such as "Delete that" and "Press Enter"

Choose Productive Voice if

  • You dictate every day and want a tool tuned for it.
  • You want a custom dictionary for names, jargon and technical terms.
  • You want AI formatting that you control, on your own account.
  • You want your audio to go to an account you control.

Choose Windows voice typing if

  • You dictate now and then. It is already on your PC, so there is nothing to buy or set up.
  • You write short messages and a few corrections are fine.
  • You want no extra account. Productive Voice needs a Deepgram account, which takes a few minutes to set up.
  • You dictate in many languages. Microsoft lists about 60 locales for Windows 11.

What it costs

Windows voice typing is part of Windows, so there is nothing extra to pay. Productive Voice is a $39 licence. After that you pay Deepgram directly, at about $0.008 a minute. At 10 minutes of speech a day that is about $28 a year. New Deepgram accounts get a $200 credit, which covers that usage for years. The AI formatting is optional and uses your own account, so it adds a little more.

So the real question is not price. It is whether the extra control is worth $39 and a Deepgram account to you. The 30-day trial has no card, so you can test that on your own work.

What you get for $39

  • A hotkey that works in any Windows app. Press Ctrl Shift Space, speak, and the text lands at your cursor.
  • A custom dictionary. Fix the words that dictation keeps getting wrong, such as names and technical terms. It is stored on your PC.
  • Raw dictation or formatted text. Voices turn the same speech into an email, a note or a commit message, using your own AI account.
  • No account with us, no telemetry. Audio goes from your PC to your own Deepgram account. We run no servers for audio or text.
  • Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit. 30-day free trial with no card, and a 14-day refund.

See every feature · How your data flows · Set up a Deepgram account · Requirements

Try it for 30 days.

Full-featured, no card. Keep Windows voice typing as well if you like. If Productive Voice is not right for you, there is nothing to cancel.

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Checked against Microsoft's support pages on 14 November 2026: Use voice typing to talk instead of type on your PC. Verify before you decide, as Microsoft can change it. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft. Productive Voice is not affiliated with Microsoft.

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