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Free & open source · No subscription · You supply the AI keys

Speak once. Get it typed, rewritten, translated, or read back.

FewType puts three everyday scenarios in one small Windows app: talk instead of typing, have ebooks read aloud in a natural voice, and turn long scripts into speech files. Free and open source — you connect the AI services you choose. No subscription, no key bundled.

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Native UI, four built-in themes

Moss, Frost, Midnight, Ember — pick the mood that fits your desktop.

Moss theme — voice input screen
Moss
Frost theme — ebook reading screen
Frost
Midnight theme — long-text TTS screen
Midnight
Ember theme — settings screen
Ember

Who is FewType for?

Three scenarios, three kinds of people — you'll probably recognize yourself in at least one.

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Voice typing — talk instead of typing

Press a global hotkey anywhere, speak, and your words land where your cursor is.

  • Chat and talk to AI faster — no more typing it all out
  • You care how your replies sound — define your own tone, AI rewrites before it lands
  • Speak one language, output another — translation straight into the text box
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Ebook reading — let your ears do the work

A browser extension reads your ebooks in a natural voice, not a robot.

  • You want a human-sounding voice and refuse robotic text-to-speech
  • Long focused reading tires your eyes — pair your eyes with your ears
  • Chores, eyes busy — read with your ears in the fragments of the day
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Long-text TTS — for creators

Paste a long script, pick a voice, get a natural audio file. A companion feature — a lifesaver for spoken-content producers.

  • Voice-over creators who don't want to record every long script themselves
  • Digital presenters and virtual hosts that need clean speech audio
  • Podcast drafts, video voice-over, audiobook samples, listening-practice materials
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Download

Portable ZIP

v3.1.24 · no install needed

Unzip and run. Includes the browser extension folder for ebook reading.

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All releases: github.com/Ray1979ANYWAY/FewType/releases · Report an issue · Free & open source (MIT)

Open source — and honest about limits

FewType is an indie project. It doesn't pretend to be a mature team product, and that's part of the deal.

What you should know

  • You bring your own AI key — that's what keeps FewType free. No subscription, nothing bundled. Pick a built-in provider (Groq, Volcengine or SiliconFlow), get a free key, paste it in Settings — about two minutes, with step-by-step guides in each scenario. Your key never leaves your machine.
  • Free, open source (MIT), no account, no tracking. The code, the builds, the roadmap — all public.
  • Not code-signed. The note below explains what to expect on first run.
  • Built and maintained by one developer, driven by real use and GitHub issues. Scope is honest: voice typing, ebook reading, long-text speech.
About the Windows first-run message
FewType is a free, open-source personal project and doesn't yet pay for expensive enterprise code signing. On first install, Windows SmartScreen may show a message. It's safe: click "More info""Run anyway". All your data and keys stay on this machine — the program never records your raw dictation audio.

Voice Typing — talk instead of typing

Press a global hotkey in any app, speak, and your words land exactly where your cursor is. Beyond plain dictation, FewType can rewrite your words in a tone you define — with built-in style examples to start from — and translate them into another language before they hit the screen.

🗣️ Dictation that works everywhere

Chat windows, browsers, terminals, documents — one hotkey (Ctrl+Win, or double-press Ctrl) starts recording and your speech is typed where the cursor sits. No switching apps, no copy-paste.

FewType custom hotkey settings

🌍 Speak one language, output another

Say it in Chinese, get English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese or Korean in the text box. The translation goes straight to the screen — no second window to manage.

FewType speech translation to Spanish

✍️ Your tone, fully custom

Describe the voice you want, or let AI write the prompt for you — funny, deadpan, literary, whatever fits. "Karwai Wong" (a cinematic monologue) and "Formal" (numbered, professional) are built-in demos to show what's possible. The tone is yours, and it's applied before your words land.

FewType writing style demo

📄 Messy notes → clean documents

Speak several things at once and the built-in Formal style structures them into numbered points — a sloppy thought becomes a document-ready paragraph.

FewType formal style demo

What you need to do

It's really just two steps. The keys live on your machine and are never bundled with the app.

  1. Install FewType on Windows 10/11 — the installer or the portable ZIP both work.
  2. Get one API key from a provider built into the app. Choose whichever suits you:
    Groq — fast, free tier, works worldwide Volcengine (火山引擎) — best for mainland China SiliconFlow (硅基流动) — domestic, free tier
  3. Paste the key in Settings — the app opens the provider dialog automatically the first time you press the hotkey.
  4. Press the hotkey and talk. Dictation, translation and styles all work from that moment on.
💡 Translation and style features use an LLM key from the same provider — the settings dialog will point you to the exact field. No server setup, no configuration file to touch.
⏱️ Free tiers & rate limits: every provider caps requests per minute (Groq's limit is plenty for personal use), and Volcengine also offers a generous free quota.
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Ebook Reading — let your ears do the work

A browser extension reads your ebooks aloud in a natural human voice — sentences flow continuously, no robotic breaks. Works with Google Play Books and Koodo Reader.

How it works: the desktop app runs the AI voice engine; the browser extension grabs the page's book text in one click and streams it to be read aloud.

🗣️ A voice that sounds human, not robotic

FewType uses natural neural voices with tuned sentence segmentation and synthesis, so paragraphs read smoothly and continuously — the way a real narrator would.

FewType ebook reading demo

👀 Give your eyes a break

Long focused reading tires the eyes fast. Read with your ears during chores, or any moment your eyes are busy elsewhere.

FewType ebook reader interface

🌏 Voices that match the book

The reader picks the voice that matches the book's language automatically, so words with multiple pronunciations are read correctly in context.

What you need to do

One install, then load the extension in your browser. That's it.

  1. Install FewType — the FewType-extension folder ships inside the install directory (and inside the portable ZIP).
  2. Load the extension in Chrome or Edge: open chrome://extensions → enable Developer modeLoad unpacked → select the FewType-extension folder.
  3. Run FewType (it acts as the local bridge for the extension).
  4. Open your ebook on Google Play Books or Koodo Reader, click Start Reading in the extension popup — the page starts reading aloud, following along with a highlight.
💡 Don't use ebook reading? Just skip the extension step — nothing else is affected. The reader supports Chrome and Edge; if you only read on one device, load it there once.
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Long-Text TTS — scripts into speech

Paste a long script, pick a voice, and get a clean natural-sounding audio file. A companion feature that saves creators hours of recording.

🎙️ From script to audio file

Paste your draft, choose a language and a voice, hit generate — the app splits the text intelligently and synthesizes it into a single audio file in your output folder.

FewType long-text TTS demo

🌍 Auto-translation before speaking

Input and output language differ? FewType translates the text first, then reads it — so you can paste English and get a Spanish voice-over without translating by hand.

FewType long-text TTS interface

🎚️ Voices, speed, volume

Hundreds of neural voices across many languages, with adjustable speed and volume. Preview before you generate, then export to a file.

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