Potok transcribes Russian speech; this site has been translated into English for convenience.
Voice input in industry programs such as 1C, ConsultantPlus or Garant works the same way as in any other app: the hotkey inserts text into the field where the cursor is, including specialized forms and document cards. Potok (potok.now) has a response time of about 0.4 seconds, and the personal dictionary of terms helps industry vocabulary be recognized as accurately as ordinary speech.
Industry programs (1C, ConsultantPlus, Garant, medical and accounting systems) often require entering a lot of text into forms and document cards. Voice input speeds up exactly this routine: not a separate function of the program itself, but a system hotkey that works on top of any of its windows.
What voice input in industry programs is
Industry programs are specialized software for a specific profession: 1C for accounting and document flow, ConsultantPlus and Garant for lawyers, medical information systems such as Infoclinica for doctors. Unlike universal apps such as email or notes, here there are many fields of a special format: an account number, a document date, a diagnosis, an article of law.
Voice input in such a program is not a built-in function of 1C or ConsultantPlus itself but a separate program that works on top of the system regardless of what the program itself can do. It catches the hotkey press, records the voice, recognizes the speech and inserts the ready text where the cursor is: into a comment field, an operation description, the text of a statement of claim. The program does not parse the structure of the document card: it simply types what you dictated into the active field, like an ordinary keyboard.
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Voice input by industry program
- Voice input in 1C:Accounting: Potok's personal dictionary remembers the terms and account codes that are often repeated in postings.
- Voice input in 1C:Document Flow: Potok has a response time of about 0.4 seconds, so dictating long resolutions does not slow down work with the document.
- Voice input in 1C:Enterprise: Potok is a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux, and the hotkey works the same in any 1C configuration.
- Voice input in ConsultantPlus: Potok's recognition is in the cloud, the speech goes to servers in Russia and comes back as text in the search field or in a note.
- Voice input in Garant: Potok's free plan gives 2500 words per week on one device, which is enough for one-off queries and notes.
- Voice input in Infoclinica: on its own GolosTest test Potok has a WER of 2.1%, and this applies to medical terms too if they are already in the dictionary.
Where Potok will not help
Potok will not put data into the right fields of a document card and will not check that the details are correct: it only types what you dictated into the active text field. Potok is a cloud service, recognition runs on servers in Russia; it does not work without the internet, and in 1C or ConsultantPlus the hotkey will be pressed but the text will not appear. In protected fields with a limit on text insertion the program is powerless too.
Frequently asked questions
It understands them better if the terms are added to the personal dictionary in advance: account codes, counterparty names and legal wording are recognized more accurately when the program already “knows” the word. Without a dictionary, rare terms may be recognized as similar-sounding common words.
Not always: if a field technically forbids inserting text by third-party programs, for example some forms with input checking, voice input will not work there, just as ordinary pasting through the clipboard will not work. This is a limit of the field itself, not of a specific dictation program.
By a model estimate, the average dictation speed with Potok is about 900 characters per minute versus about 200 characters per minute with ordinary typing, so speech is noticeably faster than the keyboard.
Yes: Windows has built-in voice typing via Win+H (Russian only in Windows 11, Windows 10 has no Russian; it does not work without the internet), and the Mac has system dictation in the keyboard settings. Both are free.
Any microphone 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 versus about 200 when typing, roughly 4 times faster. This is the product's own estimate, not an independent measurement.
Check it in one evening
Install Potok, dictate what you usually type and compare. 14 days of full access, no card needed. Potok is a cloud service: speech is recognized on servers in Russia, and it does not work without the internet.
Download PotokExisting recordings are transcribed by Potok's Telegram bot @potok_now_bot: send a file or a YouTube, VK Video or RuTube link and the text arrives in the chat. The Potok subscription removes the limit in the bot too.
Related software: terms compared
| Service | Platforms | Free | Price | Payment from Russia | Where speech is recognized |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Potok | Windows, macOS, Linux | Free: 2500 words per week; full access for the first 14 days, no card needed | Pro 690 ₽/mo, 499 ₽/mo when paid yearly | Russian bank cards, rubles | cloud, servers in Russia; internet required |
| SpeakFlow | Windows, Web | 30 minutes of dictation per month, free forever | 690 ₽/mo (Personal (unlimited)) | rubles directly | cloud (the data center country is not disclosed on the website) (not confirmed) |
| Diktuy | Windows, macOS | 30 minutes of dictation per month, free forever | 239 ₽/mo (Profi (monthly equivalent when billed yearly)); 2870 ₽/yr (Profi (year, billed in full)); 479 ₽/mo (Max (monthly equivalent when billed yearly)) | rubles directly (not confirmed) | cloud (the data center country is not disclosed on the website) (not confirmed) |
| Talkpad | macOS, Windows, Android | 2500 words/week on desktop, 1500 words/week on mobile, free forever; plus a 14-day Pro trial | $6/mo (Pro (billed yearly, $72/yr)); $8/mo (Pro (monthly billing)) | unknown (not confirmed) | cloud (the legal entity is registered in Australia; the website is hosted on Cloudflare; the exact location of the ASR servers is not disclosed in the privacy policy) (not confirmed) |
| Voisty | Windows, macOS | 5 minutes of transcription (to judge the quality) | $6.7/mo (Pro); $67/yr (Pro (year)); $99/one-time (Lifetime) | Visa/Mastercard/Amex cards, PayPal; whether Russian cards are accepted is not stated (not confirmed) | device (offline, local models such as Whisper Large V3 Turbo / NVIDIA Parakeet) |
| WhispeRu | Windows | 7-day free trial (no card) | 290 ₽/mo (monthly license); 1990 ₽/yr (yearly license); 4990 ₽/one-time (lifetime license) | rubles directly (payment via YooKassa) | device (offline) |
| GigaType | Windows, macOS | free with no limits: open source under the MIT license (Copyright (c) 2026 Disrupt Builders), all features are available without payment | — | not needed: there are no paid plans | device (offline, Sber's GigaAM neural network) |
| Molvi | Windows, macOS | free forever, no accounts and no payment | — | not needed: the product is free; voluntary donations are accepted via Telegram Tribute or by card on the website, amounts are not fixed | device (offline; best quality on an NVIDIA GPU, otherwise a fast model on the CPU) |
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 |
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