Fast, private, on-device dictation for Windows.
Press a hotkey, speak, and your words are typed into any app — email, Word, browser, chat. Speech recognition runs 100% on your computer: no cloud, no account, no character limits.
- 🌍 25 languages with automatic detection (English, German, French, Spanish, Hungarian, …)
- ⚡ Near real-time: text appears the moment you pause
- 🔒 Private by design: works fully offline after the first model download
- 📦 9 MB download; the speech model (~465 MB) is fetched automatically on first run
⬇ Download FastPen for Windows (free) · also on the Microsoft Store
Unzip anywhere and run FastPen.exe. Requires Windows 10 (1803+) or 11, 64-bit,
and a microphone. The Store build installs signed by Microsoft and updates
automatically (new versions may arrive there a few days after the ZIP).
Website: fastpen.app
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