Why We Don’t Charge $144/year to Rent Your Own Voice
The economics of speech-to-text, the death of subscription extortion, and the 3-step dictation protocol for ADHD and fast thinkers.
Speech APIs Cost Fractions of a Cent
Venture-backed transcription apps charge $12 to $15 every month ($144 to $180/year) for something that costs them approximately $0.004 per minute via models like Deepgram or local Whisper.
If you speak for 10 minutes a day, the actual raw compute cost is about $1.20 per year. Charging $144 is a 12,000% markup designed to fund sales teams, venture dividends, and lock your cognitive output behind recurring tollgates.
- $144 – $180/year forever
- Cancelling locks you out of your historical transcripts
- Audio and text fed into training datasets
- Corporate, sterile interfaces with blank-page pressure
- Free unlimited daily web dictation
- Option to Bring Your Own API Key (zero markup)
- $49 Supporter Pass or $39 one-time Mac app (own it, don't rent it)
- Transcripts stored locally on your device with zero tracking
The 3-Step ADHD & Fast-Brain Protocol
When you have a fast, non-linear brain, typing with your fingers is too slow. The gap between thought speed (250+ wpm) and typing speed (60 wpm) creates working memory bottlenecks and executive dysfunction paralysis.
Tap the bouncing ghost and speak whatever is in your head. Do NOT worry about grammar, full sentences, "ums", or chronological order. Speak at full conversational velocity.
TalkType’s AI structuring cleans filler words, identifies key action items, and generates neat markdown bullet lists or polished prose depending on your style.
Don’t organize notes in complex nested folders you’ll never open again. Tap "Copy" and send it straight to Slack, an email draft, Obsidian, or your project tracker.
🛡️ Your Thoughts Are Not Training Data
When you dictate personal journals, therapy notes, or sensitive business strategy, your audio should never be logged or used to train public language models.
Talk It Out. Free Your Brain.
No subscriptions. No logins. No blank-page terror. Just tap the ghost and talk.