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Cantari Scribe · for Windows

Speak. It writes.

Hold a key, say the sentence, release: clean text lands wherever your cursor is. Your manuscript, an email, a chat box. Dictation software for Windows built for people who write for a living, and it comes free with every Cantari account: no second subscription, no per-word meter.

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Free with every Cantari account · real free minutes every month · early beta · Windows 10+ · most PCs want the main download; ARM machines take the second · not yet code-signed, so Windows asks once before it runs

Gouache painting: a writer at his desk by a dusk window, his spoken words flowing as an ink line onto the page
How it works

Three steps, no mystery.

Scribe is a thin shell over the same engines and meter as your studio. One cookie-free pairing, one hotkey, done.

Connect once

Scribe shows an 8-character code and opens cantari.io; you approve it while signed in. No password is ever typed into the app.

Hold Ctrl+Space

A small pill appears with a live meter of your real mic level. Speak as long as you hold, up to a minute per take.

Release. Placed.

The take transcribes on the same path as the studio's speech-to-text tool and the text lands at your cursor, in whatever app has focus.

One account, both directions

Write by voice. Hear it performed.

Scribe writes down what you say; the studio reads back what you wrote. Same account, same plan, same allowance: about 1,000 characters is about a minute, whichever direction it travels.

Voice in

Draft a chapter on your feet, answer email without touching the keyboard, capture the sentence before it escapes. Dictation minutes count against your plan’s allowance, and the free tier includes a real taste.

Voice out

When the draft is ready, the studio performs it: five engines, acted delivery, audiobook chapters, exports you own. The loop closes on the same account.

Straight answers

Scribe questions, answered plainly.

Where does my audio go?
On release, the take goes to cantari.io and through the same disclosed transcription processor the studio's speech-to-text tool uses, then the text comes back to your cursor. Audio is not written to disk on your machine, and the full processor list lives in the privacy policy.
Why does Windows warn when I install?
The beta installer is not yet code-signed, so SmartScreen asks once before running it. Signing is in progress; until then the warning is expected and honest, not a malfunction.
What does it cost?
Scribe itself is free with every Cantari account, including Free accounts: there is no Scribe subscription and never a per-word charge. Dictation draws from the same monthly allowance as the studio, so Free accounts get a real taste every month and Creator or Studio accounts get hours. We say it that way on purpose: free app, honest meter, no asterisk.
Which Windows versions work?
Windows 10 and 11, with installers for both regular PCs (x64) and Windows on ARM. If you grab the wrong one, Windows simply refuses to run it, nothing breaks; the installer bundles the WebView2 runtime setup for older Windows 10 machines that lack it.
Can I change the hotkey?
Yes: Ctrl+Space, Ctrl+Shift+Space, or hold-F9, switchable in settings. Sounds and launch-at-startup are toggles too.
What about accuracy numbers?
We do not print accuracy percentages we have not measured. When we publish one, it will carry the date and the method, like every number on our benchmark.
Is Scribe a Wispr Flow alternative?
If you are comparing, here is the honest shape of it. Wispr Flow is a mature, polished dictation product with Mac, iPhone, and team features, and it deserves its reputation. Scribe is younger and narrower on purpose: Windows only, push to talk, included with a Cantari plan instead of its own subscription, and built for writers who also want their drafts performed back as audio. If you live on a Mac or need team admin features today, Flow is the safer pick; if you write on Windows and want one allowance for dictation and narration, that is exactly what Scribe is for.
Is this general voice to text for Windows, or just for writers?
It types anywhere Windows lets you type: documents, email, chat, code comments, browser fields. We build it writer-first (that is who Cantari serves), but nothing about it is locked to writing apps.

Want the long version? The docs walk every step: setting up Scribe, how it works, and troubleshooting.

Your fastest first draft is the one you said out loud.

Download Scribe, connect your account, and hold one key. The studio will be waiting to read it back.

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