Hold your hotkey, talk naturally, and release. Untether strips stutters, formats clean sentences, and types directly into any app in ~300ms. Zero subscriptions. 100% private.
Real-time Output Pasted at Cursor:
"We've finalized the Q3 API roadmap. Latency dropped by 45% following the deployment of hardware-accelerated endpoints, and team documentation is now updated across all engineering repositories."
Speak like a human.
Read like a polished writer.
Human speech is messy—full of "ums", false starts, and trailing thoughts. Untether uses lightning-fast LLM refinement to deliver crisp, professional prose every single time.
"Hey John, um, just wanted to ping you about the invoice, like, we noticed that payment for last month hasn't cleared yet, could you check with finance whenever you get a minute? Thanks!"
"Hi John, following up on last month's invoice as our records indicate the payment is still pending. Could you please confirm the status with your finance team? Thank you."
Built for professionals who think faster than they type.
Untether lives in your Windows tray, never gets in your way, and delivers immediate dictation whenever your cursor is focused.
Powered by Groq's hardware LPU running Whisper-Large-v3-Turbo. Speak a 30-second paragraph and watch it materialize in half a second.
Hold Ctrl + Shift anywhere. Untether works seamlessly across Notion, Slack, Discord, VS Code, Word, and web browsers.
Zero intermediary servers. Audio streams encrypted straight from your computer to Groq over TLS under your personal API key. We never touch or store your voice.
Going off-grid or handling confidential documents? Switch Untether to 100% local faster-whisper mode running directly on your CPU or Nvidia GPU.
Access your built-in local studio dashboard to tune transcription prompts, choose microphone inputs, configure post-processing, and test models in real time.
No heavy Electron bloat. Built natively for Windows 10/11 with low memory footprint (<60MB background idle) and instant keyboard hooking.
Simplicity by design.
No complicated accounts, no monthly recurring bills, and no SaaS lock-in.
Download and run the standalone Untether-Setup.exe. It bundles everything you need including Python runtime, audio hooks, and desktop shortcuts.
The setup wizard provides a direct 1-click button to generate a free Groq API key (takes 30 seconds). Groq gives you generous free usage every single month.
Zero credit card required for Groq tier
Place your cursor in any application. Hold Ctrl + Shift, speak your thoughts, and release. Untether cleans and pastes the text instantly.
Most modern voice apps require you to funnel all your private thoughts, patient records, or business emails through their proprietary cloud servers. Untether is architected completely differently:
Frequently Asked Questions
Untether does not charge annoying recurring monthly subscriptions. You download the desktop application and supply your own Groq API key, which has a generous free tier that allows thousands of dictations per month at zero cost.
No. Groq offers a generous free tier with zero monthly cost and no credit card required to get started. For 95% of users, the free tier limit is more than enough for daily voice dictation.
Yes. The default hotkey is holding Ctrl + Shift. Inside Untether Studio, you can configure your own key combinations, adjust push-to-talk delays, or toggle between hold-to-talk and click-to-toggle modes.
Untether includes templates for clinical formatting (SOAP notes). However, Untether is a general-purpose productivity utility and not an FDA/CE certified medical device. Clinical professionals must always review and verify all generated text before signing off.
Windows 10 or Windows 11 (64-bit), an active microphone, and an internet connection for Groq mode. (For offline local Whisper mode, an Nvidia GPU with CUDA is recommended, though standard multi-core CPU is also supported).
Download Untether v1.0.0 for Windows today. Experience typing without touching your keyboard.