Turn long recordings into clean text.
Cue transcribes while you record — and then does the next step. Lectures, interviews, and voice memos become clean, punctuated text you can search, summarize, translate, or turn straight into the follow-up work.
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…so the deadline moves to Thursday, and design review stays on Monday.
Two open questions: pricing page copy, and who owns the launch email.
Let's get the draft out today so legal has time to look at it.
— transcribing live on your desktop
44% lower median polish latency in the published benchmark
Featured in Google DeepMind's Gemmaverse — see the Gemma 4 dictation case study
What people transcribe with Cue
Lectures & talks
Record an hour-long lecture and leave with a transcript you can question: "what were the three arguments?"
Interviews & research
Stay in the conversation instead of typing. The transcript lands as a document you can quote and summarize.
Voice memos & drafts
Think out loud on a walk. Cue turns rambling audio into structured notes you can actually reuse.
Recording meetings? See meeting notes without a bot →
Live transcript, not an upload queue
Most audio-to-text converters make you record somewhere else, export a file, upload it, and wait. Cue transcribes on your desktop while you speak — the text streams in live, and the recording stays with your notes.
When the session ends, the transcript is a starting point, not a dead end. Ask Cue to summarize it, pull out decisions, translate a section, or draft the follow-up email — in the same window, without copying text between tools.
A faster measured text-polish step
Google DeepMind's Gemmaverse profile reports that running Gemma 4 locally for Cue's text-polish step cut median polish latency by 44%, lifted feature usage by 30%, and dropped marginal inference cost for that step to zero in the published May 2026 benchmark. Read how the benchmark path maps to the desktop dictation workflow →
Voice transcription FAQ
Is Cue voice transcription free?
Cue is free to start. Cue Plus is $19.99/month.
How long can a recording be?
Cue is built for long-form sessions such as lectures, interviews, and working sessions. The transcript streams live while you record, so you are not waiting for a file to upload afterwards.
What is the difference between voice typing and transcription?
Voice typing inserts short dictated text into the app you are using. Transcription captures a long recording as a document you can search, summarize, and reuse. Cue does both from the same hotkey.
Which languages does Cue transcribe?
Cue supports voice input in the languages currently available in the app. Check Cue before relying on a language for your workflow.
Turn the next recording into useful text.
Start with Cue on Mac or Windows, then dictate, transcribe, and continue the work in the app already in front of you.
They hear what you said.
Cue sees what you're doing.
And does the thing, in supported apps.