Mic in. Your chain. Your apps out.
Keep the vocal chain you built. Speaker runs your own VST plugins on your Windows microphone, so compatible calling, streaming and gaming apps can use the processed voice without a virtual audio cable.
RC23 · Private preview. Public download not yet available. Check compatibility and limitations.
How it works
Speaker adds an effect to the Windows microphone audio path. Apps using that shared-mode path receive your processed microphone. They keep selecting your real mic; exclusive-mode and ASIO paths bypass the effect.
Install Speaker and enable the capture devices you want to process. Currently available in private testing.
Add your VST3 plugins to the chain and put them in the order you want.
Check your dry and processed sound first. Test your apps and plugins before relying on a release candidate during a live session.
Your real mic. Keep selecting it in your apps.
Runs your plugins, in your order.
Example chain
Your plugins make the sound. Speaker hosts the effects you choose. It does not bundle a ready-made vocal chain.
Bring your own plugins. The current Windows build hosts 64-bit VST3 and legacy VST2 plugins. No plugins included; no AU or CLAP support.
Exclusive mode and ASIO get the dry mic. Apps that take the mic all to themselves (exclusive mode) or through an ASIO driver (a separate kind of audio driver) skip Windows’ audio effects, so they hear your mic unprocessed.
Features
Shape your sound, run it on stream, and set it once.
The chain in the middle of the path.
Plugin chain
A plugin chain is your plugins, run one after another. Each microphone Speaker processes has its own chain, and you can add more microphones in Speaker’s Devices list.
Presets
A preset is a saved setup. Save a whole chain, or one plugin’s settings, and load it again later. A talking setup, a hype setup, a late-night setup.
Added-latency readout
See the delay reported by active plugins, plus Speaker’s hand-off figure. These are not acoustic end-to-end measurements: Windows audio buffers, hardware and monitoring also contribute.
Listen
Hear yourself dry or after your plugins, with monitoring volume and mute separate from microphone input level. Route interface sounds to their own output, independently of monitoring.
Hands on the chain while you play.
MIDI control
A MIDI controller is a box of buttons and knobs you connect to your PC. Map a button or knob to load a preset, step through presets, or toggle bypass. With Learn, you press the button and Speaker picks it up.
Mute
A mute button for the microphone.
Disable Speaker
One switch makes Speaker let go of its own hold on the microphone, its monitoring and its MIDI inputs. Your chain keeps processing the mic for other apps, so you don’t lose your sound everywhere else.
Always pick up Off by default
Speaker can keep enabled, available added microphones active together, even when no other app is listening. RC23 keeps each input’s pickup independent; switching the selected mic does not close the others.
Set it once, then get on with the stream.
Volume lock
Click the padlock and Speaker holds your microphone’s Windows input level where you set it. When one of these moves the level, Speaker puts it back:
Change the level with Speaker’s own slider and the lock moves with it. Each microphone keeps its own saved target, and Speaker restores that target when another app changes it.
0.23msmedian
0.23 ms ÷ 10 ms = 2.3% of one audio block
One development setup, September 16, 2026: typical measured restoration was 0.18–0.30 ms (median 0.23 ms), with a busy-window outlier near 15 ms. Not an audio-latency measurement or a guarantee for other PCs. Bar comparison uses a 10 ms block; minimum visible bar width is 2 px.
Tray app
Optional Windows startup and close-to-tray keep Speaker accessible. Pin its window above your other apps when you want your controls in view.
Diagnostics
A screen that checks your setup and explains what it finds, in plain words.
Uninstall
Uninstall from Windows Settings. It removes Speaker’s microphone effect and checks that your audio settings are back the way they were.
Made for streaming
Scene · Discord call
Set your mic to 54% and click the padlock. If a calling app changes the Windows input level, Speaker restores your chosen target. Adjust that target in Speaker whenever you need to.
Scene · Mid-game
Map a MIDI button to your talking preset and another to a more animated vocal chain. Switch without leaving the game; compatible apps follow the processed microphone.
Scene · Second monitor
Speaker’s window sits on your second monitor. You talk, and the cubes of the Anechoic background rise and light up with your voice. The cyan tint tells you your chain is processing.
Seven styles, and the wave can be any colour you pick. Light and dark themes too.
FAQ
Speaker targets apps using the Windows shared-mode microphone path with audio effects enabled. App settings, drivers and enhancement support can affect compatibility. Exclusive-mode and ASIO capture bypass Windows’ effects and receive the dry mic. Test your own setup before a live session.
The current Windows build hosts 64-bit VST3 and legacy VST2 plugins. There is no AU or CLAP support, and no plugins are included. Individual plugin compatibility still needs testing; Speaker is not a guarantee that every third-party effect will work.
No. Speaker is for Windows 11, 64-bit only. No Mac, no Linux, no older Windows.
Yes. Total delay depends on Windows audio buffers, device drivers, hardware, your plugins and whether you monitor the result. The plugin-latency readout and capture-period measurements are not end-to-end latency. There is no zero-latency claim.
The RC23 installer is not code-signed, so Windows may show a SmartScreen warning. Public downloads are not open yet. Only use an installer obtained from a verified Anechoic source; do not disable antivirus protection to install or use it.
Uninstall it from Windows Settings. It removes Speaker’s microphone effect and checks that your audio settings are back the way they were.
Speaker · Windows 11
Speaker is currently a private preview—not a public download.
Version 0.1.0 is in private testing. Public availability and pricing have not been announced. This page previews the product; it does not provide access to the private repository or installer.
Works offline. No analytics, signups, external font requests or microphone access. Illustrations do not process audio.
