Hold a key. Talk. It’s already written.
Brassens listens while you speak, then puts finished writing exactly where your cursor was — in whatever app you were already in. No window to switch to, nothing to paste, nothing to tidy up afterwards. AI dictation and speech-to-text on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.
ok so um, Marion the, uh, the Verdon migration is slipping — it’s not Friday it’s the Monday after and I still need, sorry, we still need the storage quota signed off before, uh, before we can cut over
Marion, the Verdon migration is slipping — it’s not Friday, it’s the Monday after. We still need the storage quota signed off before we can cut over.
One key does the writing. Eleven things stand behind it.
The same app on the same machine — nothing to install per feature, nothing to connect. Betas are labelled as betas.
Dictation
Hold the key, speak, release. Text lands at your cursor, in any app.
Meetings
WINDOWS · BETACalls record and transcribe on their own, with who spoke and for how long.
Files & links
DESKTOP · BETADrop in audio, video or a link and get the text back, timestamped.
Transform
BETAHesitations and restarts removed, punctuation and paragraphs added. On desktop, say “new paragraph” and the line breaks.
Dictionary & snippets
Your proper nouns and jargon spelled right, everywhere. One trigger word writes a whole sentence.
Per-app modes
The tone follows the app: a short line in chat, a written email in your mail client.
SuperTab
WINDOWS + MACOS · BETAAs you type, the rest of the sentence appears in grey. Tab accepts it.
Memory
BETATell it once how a name is spelled or that you prefer bullets, and it uses that. Nothing is kept without your say-so.
History & stats
Every dictation is kept and searchable, and the time you saved is measured.
Local mode
DESKTOPEverything is transcribed on your machine, no network involved. One action erases it all.
Command Mode
WINDOWS + MACOS · PREVIEWAsk for something to happen rather than be written. Every step is logged. Still a preview: it still gets things wrong.
Android
ANDROID · BETADictate in one tap from the floating pill. Your modes and dictionary follow you.
It writes with you, not just for you.
Dictation is the loud half. The quiet half is SuperTab: while you type, Brassens offers the rest of the line in grey, right after your cursor. Tab takes it. Anything else ignores it and it disappears — nothing to learn, nothing to dismiss.
Thanks for the quick turnaround — I’ll read it through tonight and send you notes tomorrow.
It only speaks up when it has something worth offering. Silence is the default state, and the grey text never touches your document until you press Tab.
Direct answers to the questions people actually ask.
Brassens covers AI dictation, voice typing, meeting transcription, and dictionary/snippet workflows — and says plainly which parts are still betas, and which platform each one runs on.
+−What is Brassens?
Brassens is an AI dictation and speech-to-text app you write through: you speak, and clean text lands in the app you were already using.
It covers desktop voice typing, meeting transcription, media transcription, searchable history, and dictionary/snippet workflows that remember your vocabulary — and, in beta, it finishes your sentences as you type, remembers how you write, and can act on a spoken request.
+−What is the best AI dictation app for Windows?
The best AI dictation app for Windows depends on your workflow; Brassens is built for people who want one shortcut, accurate vocabulary, and text inserted directly into any Windows app.
It focuses on clean post-speech insertion, app-aware modes, custom words, snippets, and a Windows App Installer package path with automatic updates, with meeting capture, sentence completion and spoken commands available as Windows betas.
+−Can Brassens finish my sentences while I type?
Yes, in beta. As you type in a supported field, Brassens shows the rest of the sentence in grey after the cursor, and Tab accepts it.
This is SuperTab, experimental on Windows and macOS and not built for Linux. The model can run entirely on your machine, so a suggestion can arrive without your text leaving the device.
+−Can Brassens transcribe meetings?
Yes, as a Windows beta. Pick the call apps and meeting sites to watch, and Brassens records the call and turns it into a searchable transcript on its own.
The transcript tells speakers apart and keeps a renamed speaker named across the whole conversation, shows talk-time per person, and can be written straight into a notes folder you choose.
+−Does Brassens remember how I write?
Your dictionary and snippets are remembered as a matter of course; a separate beta lets Brassens keep short notes about your names, projects and style, and use them when it writes up what you say.
Those notes stay on your device and are never synced, every suggested one waits for you to approve, edit or reject it, and the whole thing pauses while privacy mode is on.