Loqua

Loqua is context-aware voice typing and dictation software built for Mac and Windows. It converts natural speech into polished, ready-to-use writing, understands what is on your screen, offers read-aloud when you would rather listen than read, and lets you trigger everyday actions by voice. Its stated purpose is to help people move from thoughts to being done — less typing, less context switching, and more time in flow. Loqua is aimed at anyone who would rather think than type: professionals who write all day, developers and engineers, product managers, designers, marketers, founders, writers, researchers and students. The keyboard has long been the bottleneck between having an idea and getting it written down. Traditional keyboard typing runs at roughly 45 words per minute, while Loqua's dictation runs at 220 words per minute — a difference the company presents as saving up to 3 hours per day. Raw speech, however, is rarely usable as written text: it is full of filler words, repetition and half-finished sentences. Loqua removes filler words, cuts repetition and refines phrasing in real time so that what lands on screen is ready to send. A second problem Loqua targets is context switching: stopping work to open another app, look something up, translate it or rewrite it breaks concentration. Loqua aims to keep people inside the app they are already working in. The core of Loqua is dictation with real-time cleanup. When you speak, Loqua strips out filler words, trims repetition and refines your phrasing, so the sentence that appears on screen reads as if it had been carefully written rather than spoken. This happens in real time, which means you do not have to go back and re-read everything you just said. Loqua also recognises structure in speech and builds it automatically: if you think in bullets but speak in blocks, Loqua derives lists, headings and hierarchy on its own, so you do not have to dictate formatting out loud. For anyone who writes long documents, meeting notes or structured updates, this removes the tedious formatting pass that normally follows dictation. Capture to Ask addresses the moments when the answer is on your screen but you cannot figure it out. Using a shortcut, you select any part of the screen — a table, a chart or anything else — then speak your question. Loqua returns an answer, an analysis, a translation or a summary without you having to switch apps. It is a three-step flow the company describes as Capture, Ask, Know. Related to this is Ask and Edit: highlight anything, whether it is a product description, a draft or a note, speak your instruction, and Loqua rewrites it on the spot. There is also a simpler ask-anything path — hit a shortcut, ask a question out loud, and get an instant answer without leaving your current app, which is useful when you are stuck mid-task. Translation lets you speak in your own language and deliver in someone else's, with native phrasing in nearly 100 languages, returned instantly. That makes it practical for international teams, multilingual correspondence and anyone writing in a second language. Command to Go turns your voice into a hands-free command hub: with a shortcut you can set reminders, open apps, search routes, place calls and send texts, so you can manage small tasks without jumping between applications. AI Podcast read-aloud works in the opposite direction — select text and Loqua reads it aloud, which the company suggests for morning news and multitasking, effectively giving you a hands-free text-to-speech assistant. Loqua's approach is to sit globally on top of your existing workflow rather than replace it. You invoke it with one shortcut in any text field, so it works in tools like Terminal, Slack, Notion, email, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, VS Code, Teams, Figma, Obsidian, GitHub and many more, with your voice landing right where your cursor is. The company describes the experience as no switching and no waiting, with a zero-latency feel that makes the tool easy to forget about. Loqua is built by a dedicated voice AI team with full model iteration capabilities, and the roadmap includes meeting transcription, multimodal capabilities and a Skill Market. Users report that Loqua adapts tone automatically — shifting register between, for example, a message to a CEO and a Slack message to a team — by understanding the context it is typing into. The benefits the company and its users describe are time and flow. Because dictation runs at 220 words per minute rather than 45, and because cleanup and formatting happen automatically, people report writing that used to take an hour finishing in minutes — one user summarises 30-minute writing sessions becoming 5-minute speaking sessions, and another says PRDs written by voice save at least an hour a day. Beyond speed, Loqua reduces the proofreading burden: users report they have stopped going back to check output, even when dictating framework names, library names and acronyms. For people with repetitive strain injury, Loqua is described as making work possible again rather than merely faster. Non-native English speakers say it makes their writing sound native, and international users say translation is instant and natural. Concrete use cases appear throughout the site. Product managers write PRDs, standup notes, sprint recaps and stakeholder updates by speaking. Engineers dictate coding notes, documentation and terminal input, and use it in Slack, Notion and their IDE. Designers keep their hands on Figma and narrate case studies and design processes. Content strategists and marketers draft LinkedIn posts, email campaigns, blog outlines and ad copy by voice and then polish from there. Founders and executives who context-switch all day speak thoughts into whatever app is open, and heavy email users cut correspondence time. Consultants talk through client debriefs to get clean summaries, UX researchers dictate research notes between interviews, and PhD candidates use the cleanup and formatting for academic writing. Sales teams use translation to send emails in a different language from the one they speak. Loqua runs on Mac and Windows as a desktop application you download from the site, with a 14-day free trial. It advertises support for a very broad set of applications — among them Google Docs, Word, Notion, Slack, Gmail, Figma, VS Code, Teams, Obsidian, Google Sheets, Zoom, Excel, GitHub, Terminal, Discord, Outlook, IntelliJ IDEA, PowerPoint, GitLab, WhatsApp, Telegram, Stack Overflow, OneNote, Canva, Photoshop, LinkedIn, Google Slides, X, Sketch, Reddit, Illustrator, Confluence, Evernote, Facebook, Adobe XD and Google Keep. There is also a developer programme: maintainers of public open-source projects can apply for a Developer Grant giving free access. The site states that thousands of professionals use Loqua every day. Loqua's core promise is that your thoughts should not have to slow down for a keyboard. By combining high-speed context-aware dictation, automatic cleanup and structure, screen understanding, translation, voice editing and voice-triggered actions in one shortcut-driven tool, it turns rough ideas into ready-to-use writing and keeps work moving inside the apps you already use.