Launch announcements, Champions Program news, new features, and behind-the-scenes engineering from the Brethof Voice Pro team.
The most-asked question before launch was "when macOS?". Answer: in active development. Apple Silicon native build with Metal acceleration comes first, Intel follows. Target Q3 2026 — and we are opening a closed beta in Q2. Here is what is being built and how to sign up.
Read post →Fine-tuning is not in Voice Pro v1.0 — we disabled it when we switched the inference engine to GGUF. Training still runs in PyTorch, but the converter from PyTorch checkpoint to GGUF model is not production-ready yet. Rather than ship a feature that silently produces broken models, we are waiting until the pipeline is solid. Target: Q3 2026, with a guided UI.
Read post →After months of engineering, Voice Pro v1.0 ships today for Windows and Linux. 36 languages, fully offline transcription, hotkey-anywhere dictation, and a one-time price with no subscription. Here is what made it into the launch build and what we are working on next.
Read post →The Champions Program opens today and runs until May 16. Fifty free Personal licenses per supported language — 1,800 total — plus 70% off for every qualifier who does not land in the top 50. Here is how it works and why we are doing it this way.
Read post →We listened to early feedback from writers, consultants, and translators who felt the old "personal use only" line was confusing. The Personal license at $49 now explicitly covers solo and freelance commercial use. Business license ($149/seat) is for teams. Here is what changed and why.
Read post →Voice Pro now speaks, transcribes, and presents itself in 36 languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Croatian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Malay, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese. Here is how the app picks the right one and what "fully translated" actually means.
Read post →Voice Pro's ASR backend runs on llama.cpp with GGUF-quantised Qwen models instead of ONNX Runtime. The result: a smaller install (83 MB exe vs 400+ MB), faster cold-start, and no more fighting with CUDA/DirectML wheels on every platform. Here is the engineering story behind the switch.
Read post →Every major dictation product sends your voice through someone else's server. We think that is the wrong default. Your voice is the most personal data you generate — medical notes, legal drafts, private journals, work secrets. Here is why Voice Pro has no cloud mode, no "optional telemetry", and no account requirement to transcribe.
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