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Braina
Intelligent personal assistant

Braina is a virtual assistant and speech-to-text dictation application for Microsoft Windows developed by Brainasoft. Braina uses natural language interface, speech synthesis, and speech recognition technology to interact with its users and allows them to use natural language sentences to perform various tasks on a computer. The name Braina is a short form of "Brain Artificial".

Braina is marketed as a Microsoft Copilot alternative. It provides a voice interface for several locally run and cloud large language models, including the latest LLMs from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Grok, Meta, Mistral, etc., while improving data privacy. Braina also allows responses from its in-house large language models like Braina Swift and Braina Pinnacle. It has an "Artificial Brain" feature that provides persistent memory support for supported LLMs.

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Features

Braina provides is able to carry out various tasks on a computer, including automation.1516 Braina can take commands inputted through typing or through dictation17181920 to store reminders, find information online, perform mathematical operations, open files, generate images from text, transcribe speech, and control open windows or programs.21222324 Braina adapts to user behavior over time with a goal of better anticipating needs.25

Speech-to-text dictation

Braina Pro can type spoken words into an active window at the location of a user's cursor.262728 Its speech recognition technology supports more than 100 languages and dialects29303132 and is able to isolate the recognition of a user's voice from disturbing environmental factors such as background noise,33 other human voices, or external devices. Braina can also be taught to dictate uncommon legal, medical, and scientific terms.3435 Users can also teach Braina uncommon names and vocabulary.36 Users can edit or correct dictated text without using a keyboard or mouse by giving built-in voice commands.37

Text-to-speech

Braina can read aloud selected texts, such as e-books.3839

Custom commands and automation

Braina can automate computer tasks.40 It lets users create custom voice commands to perform tasks such as opening files, programs, websites, or emails, as well as executing keyboard or mouse macros.4142434445

Transcription

Braina can transcribe media file formats such as WAV, MP3, and MP4 into text.46

Notes and reminders

Braina can store and recall notes and reminders. These can include scheduled or unscheduled commands, checklist items, alarms, chat conversations, memos, website snippets, bookmarks, contacts.474849

Image generation

Brainasoft states that Braina can generate images from text using text-to-image models including Stable Diffusion and DALL-E.50

Platforms

In addition to the desktop version for Windows operating systems,51 Braina is also available for the iOS and Android operating systems.525354

The mobile version of Braina has a feature allowing remote management of a Windows PC connected via Wi-Fi.55

Distributions

Braina is distributed in multiple modes. These include Braina Lite, a freeware version with limitations,56 and premium versions Braina Pro,57 Pro Plus, and Pro Ultra.58

Some additional features in the Pro version include dictation, custom vocabulary,59 video transcription, automation,60 custom voice commands, and persistent LLM memory.

Reception

TechRadar has consistently listed Braina as one of the best dictation and virtual assistant apps between 2015 and 2024.61626364

References

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