Doku flips the problem: you tell it what happened, out loud, and its AI updates the project for you. It moves dates, closes tasks, and creates new ones with an owner and a deadline. Here's how voice to task works — and why it changes everything for teams that hate software.
The scenario: 40 seconds leaving the job site
Picture a construction foreman wrapping up his daily walkthrough. He climbs into the truck, pulls out his phone, opens Doku, and dictates: "The window supplier slipped a week, the flooring is done, and I need Jorge to get a paint quote before Friday." Forty seconds. Not a single form opened.
Doku hears that and understands it's three separate things: it pushes the window task's date out a week, marks the flooring installation as done, and creates a new task — "Get paint quote" — assigned to Jorge, due Friday. Before touching anything, it shows the three actions and waits for a confirm. Jorge gets his task on his phone, the timeline reflects the window delay, and the project owner sees everything up to date that same night. Nobody typed a word.
Compare that with the alternative: get back to the office, try to remember all three items, open the board, hunt down each task, edit dates, create Jorge's task, then ping him on WhatsApp. Best case, that's ten minutes. Typical case, it never happens — and the schedule keeps lying until the next status meeting.
Why voice matters for non-technical teams
There's a paradox in project software: the people who need it most use it least. The site foreman, the event planner, the shop owner — people coordinating lots of people and lots of dates — don't live in front of a computer. For them, typing into a board is pure friction: find the task, fill the fields, pick from dropdowns. Every click is one more reason to leave it "for later."
Speaking, on the other hand, is the most natural interface there is. Everyone already knows how to recap their day — we've been doing it over the phone and in voice notes forever. Voice task management doesn't ask anyone to learn a tool; it asks them to do what they already do — say what happened — and lets the AI handle the tedious part of turning it into tasks, dates, and owners. The people who hate software the most are exactly the ones who benefit the most.
Three more moments where voice wins
Walking out of a meeting
You agreed on eight things and nobody took notes. Before you reach the elevator, you dictate the outcomes: who owns what, and by when. Doku creates all eight tasks with owners while memory is still fresh.
Driving between errands
You're at the wheel and something important comes to mind. Instead of a voice message that drowns in a group chat, you dictate it to Doku and it becomes a task with a due date — one that reminds you on its own.
The owner's late-night review
At 10 pm you replay the day and spot the gaps: the vendor was never confirmed, nobody followed up with the client. You dictate it in a minute, and the next morning everyone wakes up with their task already assigned.
How it works under the hood (the simple version)
No magic — four steps. First, the AI transcribes your audio to text. Second, it works out the intent: it tells "this is done" (close a task) apart from "this slipped" (move a date) and "someone needs to do this" (create a task with an owner), using your project's context to figure out which task you mean. Third, it proposes the actions in a clear list. Fourth, you confirm — and only then does anything touch your project. You always get the final say; the AI just does the heavy lifting.
What does it cost? The honest answer
Voice input is part of Doku's pay-per-use plan: you pay for what the AI processes, billed by token, with no per-seat cost. That means you can bring your whole crew in — the ten people on site, the five in the office — without the bill growing with every person. The free plan doesn't include voice, but it does let you try the basic AI assistant in writing, with unlimited tasks and list, kanban, and Gantt views. You start free, no credit card, and turn on voice once you've seen the AI understand your project.
Tell Doku what happened today
Start free and try the AI assistant on your own project. When you're ready to dictate instead of type, turn on voice input and manage your project by speaking — from the job site, the truck, or wherever you are.
Try Doku for freeFrequently asked questions
How well does it understand spoken language?
Doku's AI is built for the way people actually talk — phrases like "that's done," "it slipped a week," or "have Jorge look at it" — in both English and native Spanish. It uses your project's context to figure out which task or person you're referring to.
What if the AI misinterprets what I said?
Nothing is applied automatically. Before touching your project, Doku shows the actions it proposes — move this date, close this task, create that one — and you confirm, edit, or discard each. If something was read wrong, you fix it right there before accepting.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes — that's where it shines. Doku runs in your phone's browser with nothing to install: open your space, hold the voice button, and dictate. It's designed for the field — the job site, the truck, or the hallway right after a meeting.
How much does voice input cost?
Voice comes with the pay-per-use plan: you pay for the AI tokens you consume, with no per-seat cost, so adding your whole team doesn't raise the bill. The free plan doesn't include voice, but it lets you try the basic AI assistant in writing, no credit card required.