Record a voice note
How to speak a note with the microphone in the bottom bar or on a word or passage, and how LuceVoce writes down your words on your device.
- Windows
- Partly
- Mac
- Partly
- iPad
- Partly
- iPhone
- Partly
When it is easier to say a thought than to type it, record a voice note. LuceVoce writes down your words on your device and keeps them as the note's text, so the note can be read, searched and exported like any other. The recording itself is not kept.
Speak a note on the sentence being read
- While a book is open, press the microphone (Note) in the bottom bar. With a keyboard, press V.
- Speak. Reading pauses while you do. A small card shows the time, how loud you are and your words as LuceVoce hears them.
- Choose Save to keep the note, or press the microphone again. Choose Cancel to drop it. With a keyboard, Enter saves and Esc cancels.
The note goes on the sentence being read, with nothing else to tap. If the book was reading, it carries on once the note is saved or cancelled. A note can be up to five minutes long; at five minutes it saves itself.
The first time, your device asks whether LuceVoce may use the microphone and speech recognition.
Windows
On Windows, your words are written down by a speech model you download once; it stays on your computer. Until a model is there, the microphone does not appear.
- Open Settings > Study and find Voice notes.
- Under Speech model, choose Download beside one: Base (about 140 MB, the fastest, for clear speech), Small (about 470 MB, recommended) or Medium (about 1.5 GB, the most accurate, slow on most computers).
Once it says On this computer, the microphone is in the bottom bar. Remove frees the space again.
Mac
The microphone is in the bottom bar, between the skip buttons and the sleep timer.
iPhone and iPad
The microphone is in the bottom bar with the other large buttons, labelled Note.
Speak a note on a word or a passage
- Click a word, or press and hold it on a touch screen, or select a passage.
- Choose Voice note, beside Note.
- Speak, then choose Save or Cancel, as above.
Choose the language you speak in
LuceVoce writes down your words in your device's language unless you choose another. Open Settings > Study, and under Voice notes choose The language you speak in. Automatic (this device's language) is the default; on Windows it is Automatic (recognised as you speak).
What is kept
- The words you said become the note's text. You can edit it, search it and export it like any other note.
- The recording is not kept: only the words.
- Your words are written down on your device. Nothing you say is sent anywhere.
- The note reaches your other devices through sync like any note.
Good to know
- If no words were heard, no note is made and a message says so.
- If speech recognition is off for LuceVoce in your device's settings, or your device can't write down that language by itself, no note is made and a message says why.
- Without access to the microphone nothing is recorded; the card says so and offers Open settings.
- Voice notes made with LuceVoce 0.34 to 0.36.2 kept their recording. They still have a Play the recording button wherever the note appears, and deleting the note deletes its recording. On your other devices those notes say Recorded on another device.
Last updated 13 November 2026