Voice typing
Talk instead of typing. Your words appear as you speak, in 30 languages, and you can copy them anywhere or download them as a text file. No account, nothing to install.
Firefox and some in-app browsers do not include speech recognition. Open this page in Chrome, Edge or Safari, or use live subtitles in Speecho, which work in every browser.
Open live subtitles →Press “Start dictating” and begin talking.
Your text is long, so it was copied to the clipboard. Paste it into the voice panel.
Have a recording instead? Transcribe the whole file, with speakers and timestamps →Chrome on a computer usually writes without punctuation. Add it afterwards, or say it when you dictate in English: “comma”, “period”, “question mark”, “new line” and “new paragraph” are turned into the marks.
Works in Chrome, Edge and Safari. Firefox has no speech recognition built in.
The recognition is done by your browser, not by Speecho: Chrome sends the audio to Google, Edge to Microsoft and Safari to Apple, on the device where it can. Nothing reaches us, and the only thing this page keeps is your draft, which stays in this browser.
Dictation in the browser, and where it stops
Every modern browser except Firefox ships a speech recognizer, the same engine that powers voice search. This page connects it to a text box: you talk, the words land in the box, you copy them. It is ideal for drafting an email, a message or a paragraph faster than you can type it, and it costs nothing because the browser does the work.
What it cannot do is transcribe something that is already recorded, tell two speakers apart or give you timestamps. For a meeting, an interview or a voice memo, upload the file to Speecho instead. If you want your draft read aloud, the text-to-speech voices turn it into an MP3 in a minute. And to simply record your voice, there is the voice recorder.
Voice typing - FAQ
Is voice typing really free?
Yes. The recognition is done by your browser’s built-in speech service, so it costs us nothing to offer, and there is no account or limit on our side.
Where does my audio go?
To your browser’s speech service, not to Speecho. Chrome sends it to Google and Edge to Microsoft. Safari uses Apple’s recognition, on the device where the device supports it. Your text stays on this page and in your browser’s storage until you clear it.
Why is there no punctuation?
Chrome on a computer returns plain words. Safari and Chrome on Android add some punctuation themselves. When you dictate in English you can say “comma”, “period”, “question mark”, “exclamation mark”, “colon”, “new line” and “new paragraph”; in other languages, add the marks afterwards.
Why does it not work in Firefox?
Firefox does not include the speech recognition interface this page relies on. Open the page in Chrome, Edge or Safari, or use live subtitles in Speecho, which run their own recognition and work in any browser.
How is this different from uploading a file?
Voice typing listens live and gives you plain text. Uploading a recording to Speecho transcribes something that already exists, separates the speakers, adds timestamps and exports Word, PDF or subtitles, and it copes better with long or noisy recordings.