Potok transcribes Russian speech; this site has been translated into English for convenience.
In 1C:Enterprise you can dictate in ordinary phrases: you do not have to say “zapyataya” (comma) and “tochka” (period) separately if recognition places punctuation itself. In Potok (potok.now) this happens automatically, the default hotkey is Ctrl+Space, and the response time is about 0.4 seconds.
In accounting programs the text is usually short, but punctuation is still needed in it: periods at the end of notes, commas in lists. Before, this meant saying “zapyataya” (comma) and “tochka” (period) separately when dictating. Now this is not required if the recognition tool places the marks itself.
The short way
It is enough to say the whole phrase, without service words for punctuation marks. In Potok, periods, commas and capital letters are placed automatically during speech recognition, so what you said gets into the 1C:Enterprise field already formatted. The default hotkey is Ctrl+Space: hold the key, say the phrase, release, and the text appears where the cursor is, with a Potok response time of about 0.4 seconds. You do not need to say “zapyataya” (comma) or “tochka” (period) separately here: they are superfluous where punctuation is already placed by itself.
An option for a complex task
When the text has many specific terms, numeric values, or you need a structure of several items, automatic punctuation alone is not enough. It handles marks inside a sentence, but it does not place line breaks, lists and other formatting: Potok has no voice commands for this, so such elements are added by hand after the text is inserted. Specific terms and names that often occur in accounting entries are recognized more accurately if you set up a personal dictionary for them, which is in the Pro plan. If a term is still recognized wrongly, it too will have to be fixed by hand, like an ordinary typo.
| Task | Characters | Typing (200 chars/min) | Voice (900 chars/min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| chat reply | 300 | 2 min | 0.5 min |
| 1500 | 8 min | 1.7 min | |
| post or meeting minutes | 4000 | 20 min | 4.4 min |
| article | 10000 | 50 min | 11.1 min |
When the task is easier without voice
For short formalized values, such as codes, numbers and single digits, typing by hand is often faster than dictating and then checking the result. Potok is a cloud service: speech recognition runs on servers in Russia, and it does not work without an internet connection. It has no voice commands for editing text, and there are no mobile apps: dictation is available only from a computer. A similar review exists for 1C:Accounting, and a general overview is in the article on voice input in apps.
Frequently asked questions
No: Potok has no voice commands for formatting, so line breaks and the structure of the text have to be added by hand after it appears in the field.
Fix it by hand like an ordinary typo: Potok has no voice commands for editing text, and for exact terms the personal dictionary in the Pro plan helps.
Any microphone that the system sees as a recording device will do. In Potok you choose it in the app settings or in the tray icon menu; system access to the microphone is required.
Potok states about 900 characters per minute by voice against about 200 when typing, roughly 4 times faster. This is the product's own estimate, not an independent measurement.
Voice input is converting speech into text on the fly: the user speaks, and the program transcribes the sound with speech recognition technology (ASR) and inserts the resulting text into the active field: email, messenger, document. In Potok it works through a hotkey: hold it, speak, release, and the text is inserted.
Dictation pays off most for long texts written off the cuff: draft emails, notes, replies in messengers, lecture notes, and also when your hands are busy or tired (for example with RSI). For short precise edits (one-word commands, code) typing is often faster.
If you want to compare for yourself
Take one of your own tasks and dictate it in Potok. The first 14 days have no limits and need no card. Potok is a cloud service: speech is recognized on servers in Russia, and it does not work without the internet.
Download PotokOne subscription, two tools: dictation in any program on your computer and @potok_now_bot in Telegram, which transcribes voice messages, audio and video.
Built-in dictation and Potok
| Tool | Where it works | Russian language | Where speech is recognized |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows voice typing (Win+H) | Windows 10 and 11 | Windows 11 only | Microsoft cloud, does not work offline |
| macOS Dictation | macOS | yes | on the device or on Apple servers |
| Potok | Windows, macOS, Linux | primary language | cloud, servers in Russia, does not work offline |
Primary sources: 1c.ru · its.1c.ru · torg.1c.ru · its.1c.ru