About the project
Kama Type is made for people who dictate in Russian every day and don't want a monthly fee for it.
Why it exists
Russian comes second
Voice input works worse in Russian: English-first services treat it as a secondary language, and punctuation, terms and names suffer.
A subscription for something that costs pennies
Speech recognition has long been cheaper than a subscription, yet it is sold as one.
Someone else's cloud in the middle
To dictate an email, your text passes through a server you know nothing about.
Why there is no subscription
The app talks to the speech recognition provider — Groq — on your own key. Nobody stands between you and the bill, so there is nothing to charge you for. The app is free, and Groq's free tier goes a long way.
Who made this
My name is Vadim Kamashev. I'm an entrepreneur, not a programmer.
I paid Wispr Flow 14 euros a month until the annoyance caught up with me: I was paying a subscription to turn my voice into text. The operation costs pennies and takes a second. In 2026 I took up vibe-coding — building apps for myself to automate my own business. Kama Type is one of them: I made it for myself first, with no server and no account, on my own key.
Then I spent a long time working out how to charge for it. I priced tiers, sketched subscription plans. Then I gave up on that and decided to keep it free. I use it every day anyway, and it costs me nothing to hand it to people the same thing annoys.
If that sounds familiar, take a look at my other projects.
What you won't find here
- Accounts and sign-up.
- Telemetry and analytics inside the app.
- Subscriptions and paid tiers.
- Selling or sharing recordings.