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Voice input for studying — speak notes and text without switching your writing app.

Whether you are reading a source, drafting an essay, or just catching a quick thought: WhisPaste lets you speak the text straight to where the cursor sits — in Word, Google Docs, Obsidian, or your editor, without dropping out of your reading and thinking flow.

Capture a thought without breaking your reading flow

When you are reading a source, the key thought rarely arrives at the keyboard — it lands mid-sentence in the text in front of you. Instead of clicking away from the book or PDF to type into a notes window, place the cursor in your note, press the hotkey, and speak the thought. The excerpt appears right where it belongs, and you stay in the source.

Works in Word, Google Docs, Obsidian, and your editor

WhisPaste is not a plugin for one specific writing app — it inserts wherever the cursor is. Lecture notes in Obsidian, the term paper in Word, an email to your supervisor, a post in the course forum: the voice input behaves the same everywhere, whatever mix of tools your writing day calls for.

Longer writing sessions without tired hands

An essay or a thesis chapter takes hours — and the first draft often feels slower than your thinking actually is. Speaking the rough text instead of typing it keeps pace with your thoughts, spares your wrists on long writing days, and takes the edge off the blank page. Polish and formatting come afterwards, at your own pace — WhisPaste just gets it all down first.

  1. Open the document and place the cursor where it belongs

    Open your note, your essay, or the forum field and click where the text should go — editor, Word, or browser, it does not matter.

  2. Press the hotkey and speak

    Hold your configured hotkey and speak the thought, the excerpt, or the paragraph. Release when you are done — the transcription runs locally on your machine.

  3. Review the transcript and keep writing

    The text appears right at the cursor. Skim it, adjust a word if needed, and carry on in the flow — no window switch, no copy-paste from a separate app.