Willow Voice
Voice dictation that actually works
4.9•10 reviews•1.7K followers
Voice dictation that actually works
4.9•10 reviews•1.7K followers
Willow is an AI-powered voice dictation tool that lets you write anywhere on your computer using your voice. Speak naturally, and Willow automatically formats your text, corrects mistakes, and removes filler words. Thousands of people use Willow every day to replace up to 90% of their typing for emails, Slack messages, brainstorming, prompting AI tools, and more.
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Willow Frontier Pro
Launched this week
Willow is launching two new voice AI models: Willow Frontier Pro and Willow Frontier Mini.
Frontier Pro is our most powerful dictation model. It is built for people who want fast, accurate, and polished writing anywhere they work.
Frontier mini is lightweight and completely free to use. On our free plan, users get unlimited access to this model. It's faster and more accurate than other AI dictation tools.
Free
Launch Team
Wispr Flow
Willow Voice
Willow Voice
@kenyarmosh Great question. On our Pro plan, we actually do support local models, so you can run Willow offline without relying on a network connection!
Willow Voice
@allan_guo @kenyarmosh Yeah! It's just a local quantized model
"you are not becoming the product" is a bold line to open with, and it made me curious rather than reassured. one review here specifically calls out a competitor for holding privacy certifications and not using dictation data for training, as a differentiator. now that Frontier Mini is free and unlimited, what's the actual model for staying sustainable on that tier, is voice data from free users used to improve future models, and if so is that opt-in or just disclosed in the terms somewhere. genuinely asking because unlimited free dictation has to be paid for by something
Willow Voice
@galdayan For us, what we actually monetize is Willow Scribe!
When you onboard, you'll see two modes: normal dictation and Scribe. Scribe is our intent-to-text product that helps with phrasing and other situations where raw voice dictation isn't the right fit. On the free tier, you get 20 Scribes, and that's what we're monetizing today.
One interesting thing we've noticed is that people who use Scribe are much more likely to activate, convert, and refer friends, so giving everyone unlimited dictation has actually been a pretty good top-of-funnel strategy :)
@lawrenceliuu makes sense on the funnel side, appreciate the numbers. the part I was actually asking about is separate though: is free-tier voice data used to train or improve future models, opt-in or just in the terms? that's the thing that actually determines whether unlimited free dictation is subsidized by conversions or by the data itself
Willow Voice
@galdayan It's opt-in. You'll see this during onboarding. If you choose Privacy Mode, we collect zero data, ever. We only collect data if you explicitly opt in during onboarding. There's no hidden opt-in in the free tier or buried clause in the terms. We wouldn't do that
@lawrenceliuu that's a clean answer, appreciate you actually addressing it instead of talking around it. zero data by default with an explicit opt-in is the right default, most voice tools bury this in the terms instead. good luck with the launch
Are you mainly aiming at general text dictation, or does the product handle developer-y dictation too, like punctuation-heavy sentences, variable names, or speaking edits into a coding workflow?
Willow Voice
@crystalmei You bet. Willow is integrated really well with AI IDEs. It handles developer language naturally, including variable names and technical jargon. It can even recognize and tag file names correctly, so those workflows feel seamless.
No, you are not becoming the product" is a smart line :)
voice dictation feels like one of those habits that is still weird for a few days, then suddenly typing everything starts to feel slow. I've been using voice more and more for rough ideas, messages, and prompts, and the biggest difference is whether the output feels clean enough to use immediately. making unlimited dictation free is a pretty strong move. if Frontier Mini is genuinely fast and accurate, I can see a lot of people trying voice for the first time without overthinking it.
curious how Willow handles different writing contexts. does it adapt formatting differently for Slack, emails, docs, and AI prompts, or is the cleanup mostly the same everywhere?
Willow Voice
@andrasczeizel Yeah, exactly! We adapt formatting based on the context. Slack, email, docs, AI prompts, and more all have very different writing styles, so the formatting isn't the same across surfaces. If you use Scribe, for example, you'll notice it behaves differently in emails versus ChatGPT.
For ChatGPT, we'll often automatically optimize the prompt to help you get better results. The same idea applies to dictation in general. Willow is designed to be highly context aware, so it adjusts both formatting and rewriting based on where you're writing.
Been using it for a couple days and the filler word removal actually works well, my rambling thoughts come out pretty clean. Way faster than typing for long slack messages.
Willow Voice
@arindemirevm1u That's awesome. Have you tried using Scribe for the longer Slack messages? It's a lot easier when you're rambling, and it cleans it up.
Willow Voice
@luki_notlowkey We're faster, more accurate, and most of all, free. Take a look at our technical breakdown :)
https://willowvoice.com/blog/introducing-willow-frontier-pro
the free-for-everyone move is the right call. voice dictation just became infrastructure like keyboard input.
real q: does willow do multi-speaker attribution yet? most creative work is 2+ people talking through ideas and losing "who said the thing that landed" is where good ideas die uncredited.
Willow Voice
@thenameisarian We have really strong primary/secondary speaker differentiation. We're mainly used for single speaker roles