Bolo — speak anywhere in Windows
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Hold a key. Speak. Let go. The text lands at your cursor.
Bolo is push-to-talk dictation for Windows. Hold a global hotkey in any app, speak (English, Urdu, Roman Urdu, or a mix), release, and Bolo pastes clean text at the caret. While you hold, a warm animated listener watches; on release it writes with a tiny pen, then slips away with a soft chime. It runs from the system tray — no Bolo servers storing your audio, and no telemetry.
Get the app
At a glance
- Compact animated overlay: listen rings → pen on notebook → hide with sound
- Works in Word, browsers, Slack, email, terminals — wherever the caret is
- Default hotkey Ctrl+Win; speak, release, paste
- Urdu / mixed speech → English, or keep the language you spoke
- Long takes cut on pauses and transcribe while you keep talking
- Settings for mic, language, cleanup, dictionary, history, and privacy
What you need
The NSIS installer is per-user and does not need an administrator account. A global keyboard hook and simulated paste only work in apps running at the same privilege level, so an elevated window (for example a terminal opened as Administrator) will not receive dictation.
Run it
npm install
npm run tauri dev
Bolo starts in the tray. The settings window opens on first launch when this build has no built-in key and none is stored, or when you left-click the tray icon. A build with a built-in key does not ask for one. Right-click the tray icon for Settings and Quit. Closing the settings window hides it; the app keeps running.
Hold Ctrl + Win (the default), speak, and release. Ctrl + Space and a few other chords are presets in Settings.
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