Getting Started with MurmurTone

Learn how to set up and use MurmurTone for fast, private voice-to-text transcription.

Quick Start

Get started with MurmurTone in under 5 minutes:

1. Download and Install

   Download the installer from murmurtone.com/install and run it. Follow the on-screen instructions.

2. Launch MurmurTone

   Find MurmurTone in your system tray (bottom-right of your taskbar). The icon is a small coloured dot.

3. Configure Your Hotkey (optional)

   Right-click the tray icon → Settings → General. The hotkey button shows your current combination; click it and press a new key combination to change it. Default: Ctrl+Shift+Space

4. Start Transcribing

   Press your hotkey once, speak, then pause. MurmurTone stops automatically after a couple of seconds of silence and types the transcribed text into the active window.

Basic Usage

Recording and Transcribing

By default MurmurTone uses an "auto-stop" system:

1. Press your hotkey once to start recording
2. Speak clearly into your microphone
3. Pause for a couple of seconds; MurmurTone stops and transcribes automatically
4. Your text appears in the active application

Prefer to control the stop yourself? Settings → General offers Hold to talk (record while the hotkey is held) and Toggle (press once to start, press again to stop) as alternatives to auto-stop.

Two short sounds mark the recording state (turn them off in Settings → Audio):

• Start sound: recording has begun
• Stop sound: recording ended and transcription is running

Voice Commands

Say these commands while recording to insert punctuation or control text:

See the full list in Voice Commands.

System Requirements

• OS: Windows 10 (build 19041+) or Windows 11
• RAM: 4 GB minimum (8 GB recommended)
• Disk: 500 MB free space
• Microphone: Any USB or built-in microphone
• Optional: NVIDIA GPU with CUDA for faster transcription

Next Steps

• Learn all voice commands
• Customize your settings
• Troubleshoot issues