Audience
People with limited hand mobility, strain injury, tremor or low vision; accessibility and assistive technology teams; IT departments deploying assistive software under policy; clinical, legal and other regulated Windows desktops.
About Fluent
Fluent is a voice-first control layer for Windows 10 and 11. You speak or type a sentence describing the outcome you want; Fluent reads the window through the same accessibility tree that screen readers use, works out the steps, and invokes the real controls. No screenshots, no guessing at pixel coordinates, and no per-application plugin, so it drives software it has never seen before.
Speech recognition runs on the device. Destructive steps stop and ask before they run. Every action is written to an append-only, hash-chained audit log, so an administrator can reconstruct exactly what happened.
Built for people who cannot comfortably use a mouse or keyboard - strain injury, tremor, low vision, limited hand mobility - and for regulated desktops where screen content must not leave the machine unchecked.
Speech, dictation, text-to-speech, hotkeys and accessibility navigation keep working whatever the licence state. 30-day trial.
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Pricing
Starting Price:
$20/month/user
Pricing Details:
Fluent Individual - $20 per user, per month. Unlimited agent tasks, hosted planning (no API key of your own), 2 devices.
Fluent Pro - $50 per user, per month. The advanced planning model, 3 devices, priority support.
Fluent Enterprise - $99 per seat, per month. On-device HIPAA mode, verifiable audit exports, managed policy and offline install, 5 devices per seat.
30-day free trial, card required. Cancel in one click.
Fluent is an assistive device, so a lapsed subscription degrades it and never locks the machine. Speech, dictation, text-to-speech, hotkeys and accessibility navigation all run on your own computer and stay free forever - no card, no expiry. Only agent tasks are metered, and the allowance is never zero: an unpaid install keeps five a day, which is enough to fix a card by voice.
Fluent Pro - $50 per user, per month. The advanced planning model, 3 devices, priority support.
Fluent Enterprise - $99 per seat, per month. On-device HIPAA mode, verifiable audit exports, managed policy and offline install, 5 devices per seat.
30-day free trial, card required. Cancel in one click.
Fluent is an assistive device, so a lapsed subscription degrades it and never locks the machine. Speech, dictation, text-to-speech, hotkeys and accessibility navigation all run on your own computer and stay free forever - no card, no expiry. Only agent tasks are metered, and the allowance is never zero: an unpaid install keeps five a day, which is enough to fix a card by voice.
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Integrations
Company Information
Fluent For All, Inc.
Founded: 2026
United States
www.fluentforall.com
Videos and Screen Captures
One spoken sentence, and Fluent works the real Windows controls - it never touches your mouse.
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Product Details
Platforms Supported
Windows
On-Premises
Training
Documentation
Support
Online
Fluent Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does Fluent work with?
Fluent works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does Fluent support in their product?
Fluent supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does Fluent offer?
Fluent offers support via online.
Q: What other applications or services does Fluent integrate with?
Fluent integrates with: Microsoft Excel, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Word, Mozilla Firefox, and Slack.
Q: What type of training does Fluent provide?
Fluent provides training in the form of documentation.
Q: Does Fluent offer a free trial?
Yes, Fluent offers a free trial.
Q: How much does Fluent cost?
Pricing for Fluent starts at $20/month/user.
Fluent Product Features
Speech Recognition
Audio Capture
Supported
Automatic Form Fill
Supported
Automatic Transcription
Supported
Continuous Speech
Supported
Voice Recognition
Supported
Call Analysis
Not Supported
Concatenated Speech
Not Supported
Customizable Macros
Not Supported
Multi-Languages
Not Supported
Specialty Vocabularies
Not Supported
Speech-to-Text Analysis
Not Supported
Variable Frequency
Not Supported
