An Aqua Voice alternative where the dictation is wired to an assistant
Aqua Voice is fast AI dictation. Fasrad adds the same hold-and-speak flow, then turns the words into the email sent or the task created.
Aqua Voice gives you fast, clean dictation and ends at the transcript. Fasrad matches the speed with Whisper transcription and AI cleanup, then shapes the words into an email or a list and spells your contacts' names right. The sentence can also become something your assistant does.
Fast dictation is table stakes. What happens to the text is the point
Aqua Voice does one thing well: you speak and get fast, AI-cleaned text. That's the baseline now, and Fasrad clears it. Hold a key in any browser tab, talk, release, and Whisper-transcribed, punctuated text lands in whatever field had focus. The difference is what the text is connected to. In Aqua the transcript is the finished product. In Fasrad it's one move of an assistant that knows your contacts, shapes the words into an email or a list, and can take the next step on its own.
What you get past the transcript:
- It shapes what you said. Speak an email and it comes out Hello Dana, … Thanks, Ana, with greeting, body and signoff. Speak three points and you get bullets. A quick line comes back as a clean sentence. It reads the shape and formats it, and it never paraphrases.
- Names you actually use, spelled right. Your CRM contact names and your agent's name are seeded to the transcriber, so "Dana" stays Dana and "Niamh" survives intact.
- Dictation that becomes action. The same hold-to-speak handle opens your assistant. "Send Dana the revised quote" can go from voice to a drafted, sent email.
- Free and in the browser. You don't pay for a separate dictation subscription, and the only install is the free Fasrad Scanner extension. It runs in Chrome or Firefox on any OS, with mic permission once.
Fasrad's Voice lands text in browser fields: Gmail, Docs, your CRM, a form, a chat. If your writing happens in a browser, that's exactly where it works.
It starts at the clean transcript and keeps going. Same speed in, a lot more on the way out.
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Frequently asked questions
How does dictation work?
Install the free Scanner browser extension and allow the mic once. Then hold the dictation chord (left Ctrl + Shift) in any tab, speak, and release. Whisper transcribes, a cleanup pass punctuates and shapes it, and the text lands in whatever field had focus.
Is it as fast and clean as Aqua Voice?
Yes. It's fast Whisper transcription plus an AI cleanup pass that fixes punctuation and capitalization and strips "um / uh" and false starts. The text comes back ready to send.
Does it format, or just clean?
It formats. The cleanup pass detects whether you meant an email (with greeting and signoff), a short message, bullets or a paragraph, and shapes it. It never paraphrases or adds words you didn't say.
Will names and jargon come out right?
Yes. Your CRM contact names and your agent's name go to the transcriber as a vocabulary hint, so the proper nouns you use come back spelled correctly.
What can it do that a dictation app can't?
Act on what you said. The same hold-to-speak handle opens your assistant, so a spoken sentence can become an email drafted and sent, a note filed or a task created.
Does it dictate into native desktop apps?
No. It lands text in any field in the browser. If your email, docs, CRM and chat live in browser tabs (most do), that's exactly where it works. Native desktop apps are out of scope.
Is there a separate cost?
No. Voice is part of Fasrad, one feature of the assistant you're already using.