Overclock Voice — speak Portuguese, send the prompt in English

Overclock Voice is a separate app for macOS, Windows and Linux (menu bar / tray): you hold the shortcut, speak Portuguese, and the text is typed straight into whatever app your cursor is already in — editor, terminal, browser, the agent's window. There are two modes. Chat hands back faithful Portuguese, the way you said it. Code hands back English: it translates the request, strips the filler out of speech, and keeps file names, commands, flags, libraries, and code snippets intact.

Don't confuse it with ClockVoice: that one is the push-to-talk inside the Overclock cockpit, with local transcription, exclusive to Boost Pro. Overclock Voice is a separate app you download, it works in any app, it transcribes in Groq's cloud with your key, and it is free for everyone until 5 November 2026 — Overclock account required to download.

AI models read tokens — chunks of text defined by a tokenizer trained mostly on English. A common English word usually fits in one token, while the Portuguese equivalent gets sliced into more chunks; accents frequently add cost, and articles, prepositions, and contractions like do, da, pelo, and naquele put more pieces into the sentence. The same request therefore tends to take more tokens in Portuguese than in English.

Code mode changes the output, not your habit: you speak Portuguese and the prompt shows up in English. How much that adds up to depends on the tokenizer of the model you're coding with — which is why this page doesn't stamp a number on it. You already dictate; the difference is the language the request arrives in.

It isn't only about counting. The same models were trained mostly on English text, and that's the language where they have the most coverage and the most consistency. By speaking Portuguese and handing over the request in English, you don't give up your language — you deliver the intent in the language the model is strongest in.

Code mode translates the intent, not the identifiers of your work: config.json stays config.json. File names, commands, flags, libraries, and code snippets stay literal. For the terms recognition usually gets wrong — the product acronym, the name of your lib, a proper noun — you add an entry to the dictionary, and that list rides along with the transcription as context.

Processing happens in Groq's cloud with your own key, which has a free tier at console.groq.com. You pay Groq directly: there's no subscription brokering that usage. The key is protected by the OS credential store (Keychain on macOS) and is never written to a config file.

The latest transcriptions stay on your computer, with no sync, and you can clear the history whenever you want.

The 1.0 release ships the core flow on three platforms:

• macOS — menu-bar app, signed with Developer ID and notarised by Apple (universal DMG).
• Windows — tray app, x64 and ARM64 installers. Not Authenticode-signed yet: Windows may show "Windows protected your PC" — More info → Run anyway.
• Linux — tray app, AppImage and .deb for amd64 and arm64. On Wayland, text goes to the clipboard instead of being typed — that is the correct behaviour, imposed by the compositor.

There's no local model and no meeting transcription in this release.

The window is a fixed date, the same for everybody: until 5 November 2026, Overclock Voice is unlocked for any Overclock account, no card — including people who only signed up and subscribe to nothing. It isn't a counter that starts when you download.

After that date, Voice stays included with Boost Pro and Ultra. To use the app you sign in with your Overclock account and use your own Groq key.