Mutation

One Hotkey Away. Hands Off the Mouse.

The accessibility-first productivity layer for Windows. Mute every mic, read any screen, dictate anywhere, and speak text aloud — all from global hotkeys, no matter which app is in front. Free and open source.

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System Overview

Operational Parameters

Mutation runs quietly in the background and turns essential accessibility and workflow tasks into single keystrokes. Press a hotkey to silence every microphone on your system at once, grab and OCR any region of the screen, dictate straight to your clipboard with Whisper-class speech-to-text, or have your clipboard read back to you like a media player — play, pause, skip, rewind. Optical Character Recognition, transcription, and language-model processing are powered by your own API keys to Azure Vision, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Deepgram, so your credentials and your data stay yours.

Built by a visually impaired developer for daily, real-world use — every shortcut is global, every knob is configurable, and nothing is locked behind a subscription.

  • System-Wide Mic Control — mute and unmute all microphones with one key, independent of any meeting app
  • Screen Capture + OCR — select a region, read the text; natural multi-column or strict row-by-row layouts
  • Speech-to-Text Dictation — speak anywhere, paste the transcript in seconds
  • Text-to-Speech Playback — read your clipboard or selection aloud, with pause, skip, and rewind
  • LLM Text Processing — fix grammar, rewrite, or run custom prompts on selected text
  • Fully Configurable Hotkeys — remap everything; bring your own API keys
Open Source

No Lock-In

Mutation is free, open source, and self-hosted on your own machine. Install the .NET runtime, drop in your API keys, and it's yours — fork it, extend it, or contribute back.