For Writers & Creators
First drafts at speaking speed.
Most people speak 120-150 words per minute and type 40-80. Flunkey lets novels, scripts, newsletters, and posts arrive as clean first drafts — then F10 polishes them in place.
The keyboard is where flow goes to die.
Writer's block is often just typing friction: thoughts outrun fingers, corrections break rhythm, and editing starts before the draft exists. Speaking separates capture from craft.
- First drafts take 2-3x longer than the thinking behind them
- Mid-sentence corrections derail momentum instead of resolving cleanly
- Character names, places, and invented terms mistranscribed every session
- Evenings lost to retyping, formatting, and punctuation cleanup
Three jobs Flunkey takes off your plate.
Drafts that outrun block
Narrate chapters, scripts, and posts in long hands-free takes. Double-tap F8, talk it out, confirm — edit later.
“Chapter twelve opens at dawn in the harbor market, rain still falling, Mara counting coins she doesn't have”
Names spelled right, always
Teach the Dictionary your cast, places, brands, and jargon once. Transcription prefers your canon over its guesses.
“Kaelith, the Sunken Archive, photocopier lease renegotiation”
Polish passes by voice
Select a rough passage and say 'tighten this, keep my voice' or 'past tense throughout'. F10 rewrites in place; undo always works.
“tighten to half the length, keep the rhythm, fix the tense”
Your hotkeys, mapped to the work.
Capture everything
Long-form dictation into Scrivener-style editors, Docs, Word, Obsidian, and CMS fields.
How it works
F9Research beside the draft
Ask for facts, synonyms, and structure ideas without leaving your manuscript.
How it works
F10Revise by voice
Tone shifts, cuts, translations — spoken edits applied to the selection.
How it works
Frequently asked questions.
For first drafts, yes — 120-150 wpm spoken vs 40-80 typed. The skill is editing afterwards, which Flunkey speeds up with F10 voice revisions.
Not once they're in your Dictionary. Add the full canon — people, places, terms — and transcription prefers your spelling, including fuzzy typo repair.
Your text is sent only to the AI provider whose key you configured. No Flunkey servers or accounts exist, and local history wipes on demand.
Yes — select the passage, hold F10, and say e.g. 'past tense, keep my voice'. The rewrite replaces the selection; Ctrl+Z undoes it.
Free and MIT open-source. Provider usage is the only possible cost, and typical writing volumes fit inside free tiers.
Switching tools? Flunkey vs Dragon — the modern replacement.
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