Is Zahvox free for technology professionals?

Yes. Zahvox runs in your browser at /tool with no signup, no download, and no card required. You can use it every day at zero cost. Paid tiers only unlock advanced cleanup and history, and are opt-in.

Does Zahvox work offline for technology teams?

No, not today. Zahvox is a browser-based tool and needs an internet connection to process speech. An offline desktop build is planned but not shipped. For now, use Zahvox on any device with a working browser and mic.

Can Zahvox handle industry jargon in technology?

Zahvox uses general-purpose speech models, so common industry terms transcribe well but rare acronyms may need a quick edit. Custom vocabulary is on the roadmap. Most users add a short glossary and correct once, then reuse the cleaned text.

How accurate is voice to text for technology work?

Real-world accuracy is around 92 to 97 percent in a quiet room with a decent mic. Background noise, thick accents, or rapid speech lower that. The built-in cleanup pass fixes filler words, repetition, and false starts, so the final draft reads cleanly.

Why is voice to text not working in my browser?

Nine times out of ten it is a mic permission. Open your browser site settings, allow microphone for the Zahvox tab, then reload. If it still fails, close other apps holding the mic (Zoom, Teams, Meet) and try again. Chrome, Edge, Safari and Brave all work.

Does Zahvox work on iPhone and Android?

Yes. Open the Zahvox tool page in Safari on iPhone or Chrome on Android, tap the mic, and start speaking. There is no app to install. iOS 15 and up, and Android 10 and up, are both supported.

Can I use Zahvox for pull request descriptions?

Yes. Speak the summary, motivation, and testing notes into Zahvox, copy the cleaned text and paste it into the PR body. Many engineers keep a personal template in a scratchpad and dictate into each section.

Does Zahvox integrate with GitHub, Linear or Jira?

Not with direct API integrations today. Zahvox outputs clean text you paste into any tool. Native integrations are on the roadmap but not shipped. For now, copy-paste is fast and works everywhere.

How does Zahvox compare to Otter.ai for engineering teams?

Otter is built for recording and transcribing full meetings, which is useful but heavy. Zahvox is the opposite: short, intentional dictations for the documents you actually ship (PRs, RFCs, postmortems). Most engineers use both: Otter for the meeting record, Zahvox for the write-up afterwards.

Is voice-to-text accurate enough for technical vocabulary?

For prose about your system it hits 92-97% accuracy in a quiet room. Rare acronyms and product names sometimes need a quick correction. The trick is to dictate the explanation in plain English and paste actual code, error messages and identifiers from your editor.

Can I use Zahvox during a live incident?

Yes. Keep a browser tab open in the incident channel workflow, dictate observations as they land, and copy the timeline into the postmortem doc after resolution. Faster and more accurate than trying to type between context switches.

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Voice-to-text for technology

Ship written thinking as fast as you ship code.

Technology teams write constantly: PRDs, RFCs, code review comments, stand-up recaps, changelogs, incident reports. Zahvox lets engineers, product managers and technical leads dictate that writing instead of typing it, then hands back a cleaned draft.

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~90s

Time per PR description

Down from 8-12 minutes of typing for a full explanation.

150 wpm

Speaking speed

Roughly 3x the pace of a fast typist writing prose.

0 min

Setup

Browser tab. No install, no signup, no IDE plugin.

Free

Cost

Free forever tier. No card, no per-seat fees.

Where Zahvox fits in technology

Most technology work is thinking, and most thinking already happens out loud in stand-ups, whiteboard sessions and 1:1s. The bottleneck is turning that thinking into readable text. Zahvox closes the gap. Open the tool, speak your reasoning, and get a paragraph you can paste into a Notion doc, GitHub PR, Linear ticket or Jira comment. It works in any browser on any laptop, so it does not touch your build pipeline or IDE.

Speak, don't type

Open the tool, hit the mic, start talking. No signup, no download.

Cleaned in seconds

Filler words, false starts and repetition are stripped automatically.

Paste anywhere

The output is plain text. Works in every CMS, CRM, PSA and doc tool.

Writing technology do every week

These are the tasks Zahvox handles well for technology professionals. Pick one from your week and try it in the free tool.

Design documents and RFCs
Stand-up and retro recaps
Pull request descriptions
Incident write-ups and postmortems
Ticket comments and handovers
Internal changelogs and release notes
Onboarding docs and runbooks

Three workflows that pay back this week

The whiteboard-to-doc flow

After a design session, open Zahvox on your phone, speak the decisions out loud in the order you discussed them, and paste the cleaned text into your RFC template. A 40 minute meeting becomes a shareable doc in five minutes.

The stand-up recap

Right after stand-up, dictate a two paragraph summary for anyone who missed it. Post it in the team channel before your next meeting starts.

The incident postmortem draft

While the incident is fresh, dictate the timeline, root cause hypothesis and follow-up items. Edit later with data, but capture the story now.

Say this, get that

Real prompts you can speak into the tool right now, and the kind of cleaned draft you get back.

PR description

You say

"This PR moves the auth token refresh into a background worker. The old version blocked the login request for up to two seconds when a refresh was needed. Testing notes: I ran the auth suite and hit the login endpoint 500 times in a loop with no dropped tokens."

You get

A three-paragraph PR description: what changed, why, and how you tested it. Cleaned of filler, ready to paste into GitHub.

Incident postmortem draft

You say

"At 14:22 we saw a spike in 500 errors on the checkout API. Root cause looked like a stuck database connection pool. We restarted the pool at 14:31 and errors cleared by 14:33. Follow-ups: add pool-size alert, run a load test."

You get

A timeline, root cause paragraph and follow-up list you can drop straight into your postmortem template.

Where technology lose time

Design decisions get forgotten because nobody wrote them down
PRs ship with two-line descriptions and no context
Incident postmortems get delayed and lose nuance
Deep-work time is spent on documentation typing, not building

How Zahvox changes the day

Zahvox turns spoken engineering thinking into first drafts of the written artefacts your team actually needs. It does not replace your IDE, your git tooling or your issue tracker. It replaces the fifteen minute typing tax you pay every time you have to convert a conversation into a document. Engineers report that a full PR description takes 90 seconds by voice instead of ten minutes by keyboard, and the description is longer and clearer.

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Works with the technology stack

Zahvox is a browser tool. The output is plain text, so it drops into every app your team already uses.

GitHubGitLabLinearJiraNotionConfluenceSlackLoomVS CodePagerDuty

Zahvox vs. typing vs. generic dictation apps

A fair, honest comparison for anyone weighing the options.

Criteria	Zahvox	Typing	Generic dictation
Best for	Short, intentional writing (PRs, RFCs, postmortems)	Everything, slowly	Long-form dictation
Setup	Open browser tab	None	Signup, install
Handles code snippets	Paste real code alongside dictated prose	Copy from IDE	Usually mangles them
Works with GitHub/Linear/Jira	Paste into any tool	Yes	Paste into any tool
Cost	Free forever	Free	$10-30/mo