Hi Mom, I'll be home by 9 tonight, so don't cook dinner for me.
Hold a key. Speak. It's typed.
Boli turns your voice into clean, ready-to-send text in any app on your Windows PC.
Right Ctrl Hold and talk
Manali trip plan
- Day 1: reach by noon
- Day 2: Solang Valley
- Day 3: head back home
Hey team, the client call has moved to 4:30. Please join five minutes early.
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- My laptop setup for college
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Your words, cleaned up and typed where your cursor is.
01 / Features
Small things that make dictation feel like typing.
Six of them, all on by default.
Speak any language
Boli understands 99 languages and writes in the one you speak.
No more um
Filler words and false starts are removed; "Friday, no wait, Thursday" becomes Thursday.
Matches the app
Code terms in editors, one clean command in terminals, casual in chats, proper layout in email.
Lists, numbers, maths
"Two kilo" becomes 2 kg, spoken lists become bullets, maths becomes notation.
Your words, spelled right
Add names and jargon to your dictionary once.
Never loses your words
If the internet drops, the recording is saved; retry it from the tray.
Speak in any of the 99 languages that Boli's speech engine, Whisper large-v3, supports.
English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Turkish, and 87 more.
02 / How it works
Three steps, one key.
No window to open, no button to click.
- Step 01
Hold Right CtrlOr Right Alt, F8, F9
- Step 02
Speak naturallyUms, false starts and corrections get cleaned up.
- Step 03
Release, it's typedLet go, and the text is typed where your cursor is.
Fast, accurate, everywhere.
What you said, and what Boli typed, in ten different apps.
pip install requests --upgrade
The new logo files are in the Drive folder. Can everyone check them by tomorrow evening?
To-do
• Pay electricity bill
• Submit assignment
• Call the bank about my card
Ohm's law: V = I × R. 2 A × 5 Ω = 10 V.
# This function retries the upload 3 times.
Dear Sir,
I would like to take leave on Tuesday and Wednesday for my sister's wedding.
Thanks,
Arjun
Hi Neha,
Just checking if you got the form I sent yesterday. Let me know if anything is missing.
The project uses Python and PySide6. It records your voice, sends it to Groq and types the clean text back.
Hey, what time does the match start? I'll reach by 7:30.
03 / Install
Install in about five minutes.
Most of it is waiting on the first download.
- 1
Download BoliSetup.exe and double-click it. It installs in under a minute.
- 2
Click through the installer. Boli opens when it's done and adds a Desktop shortcut.
- 3
Get a free Groq API key at console.groq.com (sign in → API Keys → Create) and paste it into Boli.
- 4
Open Notepad, hold Right Ctrl, say something, let go.
Windows may show a SmartScreen warning because Boli is new. Click More info → Run anyway.
On Linux (Ubuntu, Debian): download Boli-amd64.deb, double-click it and click Install. Then open Boli from your apps. Other Linux? Get the AppImage.
The app itself
One small window: your key, your language, your history.
04 / Privacy
Your words stay yours.
Your key stays on your PC, encrypted with Windows. Downloading hex model locally keeps all your data stays entirely on your computer,using groq api key sent your audio only to Groq for transcription and is not stored by Boli.History is saved only on your PC, and you can turn it off or clear it.
05 / FAQ
Questions, answered.
The five we are asked most.
Is it free?
Downloading the Hex model gives you lifetime free usage with unlimited words, whereas Groq's API key has usage limits.
Does it work offline?
Downloading the Hex model allows it to run completely offline whereas using Groq's API requires an internet connection.
Mac?
Boli runs on Windows and Linux now. Mac is planned.
My laptop is old. Will it run?
Yes, it is built for 4 GB RAM laptops because the heavy work runs in the cloud.
Admin apps?
For apps opened as administrator, Boli copies the text and you press Ctrl+V.