Voice-powered productivity for Windows - Dictate text anywhere and have any text read aloud with natural voices.

Tap the microphone and speak - your words are typed automatically wherever your cursor is. Perfect for:

• Writing emails and documents
• Messaging and chat
• Taking notes
• Any text input field

Copy any text to your clipboard, then tap "Speak Clipboard" to hear it read aloud using natural-sounding Microsoft neural voices. Great for:

• Proofreading your writing
• Accessibility
• Multitasking while listening
• Learning and comprehension

• Speed Control - Adjust playback speed from 0.5x to 2.0x
• Device Selection - Choose your preferred microphone and speaker
• Offline Speech Recognition - Uses Vosk for privacy-focused, offline voice recognition
• Desktop Shortcuts - Optional desktop and Start Menu shortcuts on first run
• Portable - Run from USB drive without installation

• Windows 10 or Windows 11
• Microphone (built-in or USB)
• Speakers or headphones

1. Download SpeakAnywhere.exe from Releases
2. Download the Vosk model (see below)
3. Run the executable

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/nicedreamzapp/SpeakAnywhere.git
cd SpeakAnywhere

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Download Vosk model (required)
# Place in _resources/vosk-model-small-en-us-0.15/

# Run
python speak_anywhere.py

Speak Anywhere uses Vosk for offline speech recognition. You need to download the model:

1. Download from: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models
2. Get: vosk-model-small-en-us-0.15 (40 MB) or larger models for better accuracy
3. Extract to: _resources/vosk-model-small-en-us-0.15/

1. Launch - Run SpeakAnywhere.exe or python speak_anywhere.py
2. Wait for splash - The app loads the speech model (first time may take a moment)
3. Setup options - Choose to create desktop shortcuts if desired
4. Dictate - Tap the microphone icon, speak, and watch your words appear
5. Listen - Copy text, tap "Speak Clipboard" to hear it read aloud
6. Close - Click the X button to exit

• Say "new line" to press Enter
• Say "period" or "comma" to insert punctuation

# Install PyInstaller
pip install pyinstaller

# Build executable
pyinstaller --onefile --noconsole --icon="_resources\SpeakAnywhere.ico" --name="SpeakAnywhere" --collect-all vosk --collect-all cv2 speak_anywhere.py

The executable will be created in the dist/ folder.

SpeakAnywhere/
├── speak_anywhere.py      # Main application
├── LICENSE.txt            # License agreement
├── README.md              # This file
├── requirements.txt       # Python dependencies
├── _resources/            # App resources (hidden folder)
│   ├── SpeakAnywhere.ico  # App icon
│   ├── splash_video.mp4   # Splash screen video
│   ├── splash_audio.mp3   # Splash screen audio
│   └── vosk-model-*/      # Speech recognition model
└── dist/                  # Built executable (after build)

• Vosk - Offline speech recognition
• Edge TTS - Microsoft neural text-to-speech
• PyAudio - Audio I/O
• Tkinter - GUI framework
• PyAutoGUI - Keyboard automation
• Pygame - Audio playback
• OpenCV - Video playback for splash screen

Copyright (c) 2024 Nice Dreamz LLC. All Rights Reserved.

This is proprietary software. See LICENSE.txt for details.

Matt Macosko Nice Dreamz LLC info@nicedreamz.wholesale.com

For issues and feature requests, please open an issue on GitHub.