Potok transcribes Russian speech; this site has been translated into English for convenience.
The section for law collects materials for 3 professions, lawyer, advocate and notary: which dictation programs suit work with contracts, how to dictate text straight into Word and what to pay attention to with data confidentiality. For this Potok (potok.now) has a personal dictionary of legal terms and cloud recognition on servers in Russia.
3 professions from law, lawyer, advocate and notary, and materials for their everyday tasks are collected in this section: which dictation program suits work with contracts, how to insert dictated text straight into Word and what to consider in advance about the confidentiality of client data.
How this is used in everyday work
In legal work, voice input more often replaces not writing text from scratch but typing from memory: a lawyer dictates a contract clause that he has already formulated aloud at a meeting, an advocate a draft of a motion, a notary a standard wording into a template. The text is inserted into the active field of the same Word or another editor where the document is already open; no separate window for dictation is needed.
The specifics of such work are an abundance of set terms and phrases that must be repeated word for word: references to articles of law, standard contract wording, the names and details of the parties. A personal dictionary lets you enter such terms once and then have them recognized correctly, without spending time on manual correction of the same errors again and again.
Confidentiality here is not an abstract point. The text of contracts and client data go to a server for recognition, and in legal work this should be considered in advance, not after dictation has already started. In Potok recognition is in the cloud, processing runs on servers in Russia, and for companies with strict perimeter requirements there is a business option with deployment inside the company infrastructure and SSO.
All articles in this section (25): potok.now/dlya/pravo
| 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 |
What to open first for your task
- Dictation programs for a lawyer: for this task Potok has a personal dictionary of terms and snippets of recurring wording.
- Dictating a contract in Word: the text is inserted into the active field by a hotkey, including the Word window.
- Advocate: voice input at work: data is processed in the cloud, on servers in Russia.
- Voice input for an advocate: a free limit of 2500 words per week on one device.
- Notary: voice input at work: for business, deployment inside the company perimeter with SSO is available.
- Lawyer: voice input at work: on the GolosTest benchmark Potok has a WER of 2.1%.
Where Potok does not fit
Potok is a cloud service, recognition runs on servers in Russia, and it does not work without an internet connection: in a meeting room without Wi-Fi or in a court without a network you will not be able to dictate a document. Potok also has no transcription of already recorded files and meetings: it recognizes only what is said live while the hotkey is held, not a finished audio recording of a hearing.
Frequently asked questions
Yes: Potok inserts the recognized text into the active field of the app where the cursor is, including Word, Excel or any other editor, without switching windows and without copying by hand.
Yes: Windows has built-in voice input by Win+H (Russian only in Windows 11, Windows 10 has no Russian; it does not work without the internet), and on a Mac there is system dictation in the keyboard settings. Both are free.
Dictation is especially useful for long texts written off the cuff: drafts of 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.
Potok states about 900 characters per minute by voice against about 200 when typing, roughly 4 times faster. This is a product estimate, not an independent measurement.
Built-in system tools (Win+H in Windows, Dictation in macOS, Voice Typing in Google Docs, Gboard on Android), voice browser extensions, and also specialized desktop and web services (Potok and analogs) that work over any app through a hotkey.
By a model estimate, the average dictation speed through Potok is about 900 characters per minute against roughly 200 characters per minute in ordinary typing, so speech is noticeably faster than a keyboard.
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 PotokThe Potok subscription also includes the Telegram bot @potok_now_bot: forward it a voice message or a long meeting recording and it returns the text. Without a subscription the bot gives 60 minutes per month for free.
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) |
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