Speech to Text
Dictate notes straight into text — with live transcription, spoken punctuation, and an honest note about where the audio goes.
Where your voice goes
This is the one tool on the site that may send something off your device, so it says which mode it is in before you start rather than after.
Browsers can transcribe speech two ways. On-device recognition runs a language pack locally and nothing leaves your computer. Server-based recognition streams your audio to the browser maker's service — in Chrome's case, to Google — and sends the text back. Chrome has historically used the second by default. This page asks for on-device recognition first and only falls back to the server route if the browser cannot do it locally, and the banner at the top always states which one is actually running.
If the banner says the audio is being sent to a service and you are dictating something confidential, stop and type it instead. Every other tool on this site runs entirely in your browser; this one cannot promise that on its own, so it tells you the truth instead of quietly assuming you do not mind.
How to use
Pick your language, press start, and talk normally. Words appear greyed out while the browser is still deciding what it heard, then settle into the box below as final text. The transcript is an ordinary editable text area, so you can fix a mistake mid-flow and carry on dictating — new speech is appended to the end.
With spoken punctuation on, saying "period", "comma", "question mark", "exclamation mark", "colon", "semicolon", "new line" or "new paragraph" inserts the mark rather than the word. Turn it off if you actually need to dictate the word "period".
If it stops on its own
Browsers end a recognition session after a stretch of silence, which in a long dictation looks like the tool giving up. This page restarts the session automatically whenever that happens and you have not pressed stop, so a pause to think does not end the recording. The button is the only thing that stops it.
Browser support
Speech recognition needs Chrome, Edge, or Safari. Firefox has not shipped it, and on a browser without it this page says so plainly instead of showing a microphone button that does nothing. Accuracy varies with your microphone, background noise, and accent — it is a useful first draft, not a court transcript.