For years, voice AI really only worked if English was your first language. Everyone else had to adapt: accents were treated as errors, other languages came second, if they were supported at all, and the real productivity benefits were limited to a small group of users.
With the new Soniox Desktop App, that era ends. This launch brings full parity with our mobile app and advances our core idea: you should be able to work, think, and use your voice in your own language everywhere, not as a feature but as the default.
From the beginning, Soniox has focused on solving what most speech systems avoided: achieving native speaker accuracy across languages, and not just English. Voice becomes truly useful when it fits naturally into daily work, and desktop is where that impact is largest — writing documents, attending meetings, developing ideas, and communicating throughout the day. The new desktop app brings everything you could do on mobile into workflows designed for longer, focused work sessions.
One app for everything you do with voice
The new Soniox Desktop App brings together three capabilities that previously required multiple tools:
Smart Scribe
Capture conversations, meetings, and ideas as they happen with live transcription, structured summaries, and reasoning across 60+ languages. On desktop, Smart Scribe becomes a thinking tool: capture meetings while working in other apps, turn discussions into structured notes instantly, and review or refine content without breaking your flow.
Translator
Speak naturally with people who speak different languages. Soniox translates from any language to any language in real time. Desktop translation enables new workflows such as international meetings without switching tools, seamless multilingual conversations, and communication where everyone speaks their own language. You don’t translate into English first, you communicate directly.
Voice Typing
The fastest way to write on mobile and desktop is no longer typing. Soniox Voice Typing on desktop has been significantly improved with new styles and formatting designed for real-world writing, from short messages to long documents. Most people speak 3–4× faster than they type, and now that speed advantage works across your entire computer, in your language.
The end of English-first software
This update is not about adding features. It’s about removing a limitation that has existed across software for decades. Voice AI should not require you to adapt to the system, the system should adapt to you. Soniox supports 60+ languages with speaker-native accuracy, enabling writing in your native language at full speed, multilingual conversations without friction, and global collaboration without language hierarchy. For the first time, voice productivity is not limited by language.
Built differently
Soniox developed the entire stack — speech models, translation systems, and real-time infrastructure — allowing us to optimize latency, accuracy, and reliability end-to-end instead of stitching together multiple providers. The result is something that simply didn’t exist before: Smart Scribe, Translator, and Voice Typing in one app, one account, one workflow, free to start with free credits added every week.
Voice is the new interface
The new desktop app is another step toward a larger shift. Voice is becoming the primary interface for computing, not just commands, but thinking, writing, collaborating, and reasoning in real time. The goal remains simple:
Understand every conversation in any language, anytime.