Convert Speech to Text

Talking is roughly three times faster than typing, which is why dictation is worth the small awkwardness of getting used to it. This tool transcribes your voice into editable text in real time, so you can draft an email, capture a thought before it escapes, take notes during a call, or get the substance of an interview down without typing a word.

It uses the speech recognition already built into your browser, so there is nothing to install and no time limit. Accuracy is high for clear speech in a quiet room and drops predictably with background noise, strong accents and specialist vocabulary. Speaking punctuation aloud, saying comma or new paragraph, generally works and makes the raw transcript far more usable.

A privacy note that most dictation sites do not make: in some browsers, Chrome and Edge among them, the Web Speech API works by sending your audio to the browser vendor's servers for processing. That transfer is between you and your browser vendor and is governed by their privacy policy. It does not pass through us, we never receive your audio, and nothing you dictate is stored by this site. If that arrangement does not suit you, use a browser that transcribes on-device.