Why I built Voconly — and why voice might become our next keyboard

I've spent most of my career building companies, but for a long time, I wasn't writing code myself.

Then AI changed something for me.

It gave me the ability to build again.

Not just to have an idea and hand it to a team — but to actually turn an idea into a product myself.

While building with AI, I noticed something interesting: I was still spending a huge amount of time typing.

Ideas, prompts, emails, documentation, notes...

Typing is powerful, but speaking is much more natural.

That's why I started building Voconly.

Voconly is a local-first, open-source AI voice input assistant for Windows.

You speak. It turns your voice into text. And AI can further polish, translate, organize, or transform what you said.

But one thing was important to me from the beginning:

Your voice should stay yours.

That's why Voconly is designed to run locally, with offline speech recognition and support for multiple ASR models.

I'm still early in this journey, and Voconly is evolving quickly.

I'd genuinely love to know:

Do you use voice input in your daily workflow?

And if you do — what's the one thing current voice typing tools still get wrong?

I'd love to learn from you.