Dictate Instead of Typing — Voice to Text, Live
Free speech to text converter for voice typing in your browser. Click “Start,” give permission to use your microphone and start talking: your voice will be transcribed to text in real time in eight languages.
- Live transcription as you speak
- 8+ languages
- No time limits or word caps
- Audio not stored by us
- 100% free, no signup
Why This Speech to Text Is Different
Free speech to text converter for voice typing in your browser. Click “Start,” give permission to use your microphone and start talking: your voice will be transcribed to text in real time in eight languages.
How to Use the Free Speech to Text
Your browser will ask for permission only once: that’s your deal with the browser.
Pick the dialect you actually speak and accuracy goes up.
Punctuate (say period or comma) as you dictate in English. You may stop to consider what you are going to say. Dictation will keep listening until you press the Stop button.
Copy the text and then check it with our Grammar Checker, because even dictated drafts need fixing.
100% Free — Here Is Why That Is Sustainable
Speech recognition is provided by your browser. Depending on the browser and available recognition service, audio may be processed remotely by its provider, such as Google. We do not receive audio on our server. Check your browser provider’s privacy policy before dictating sensitive information.
Since the speech engine is already built into your web browser, our system was designed around that. There is nothing for us to meter.
The Speech to Text in Real Student Life
Voice to text in your browser
Select a language and tap the Start dictation button. Your speech will automatically be converted into text.
You can stop at any point, copy the text that has been created or erase the text. The transcript stays in this tab and persists even after refreshing the page.
Voice typing for essays and notes
Dictation is the fastest method of writing your first draft. Use voice typing on your walk back home and then correct your text in the Grammar Checker.
While dictating in English, you can say period and comma for punctuation and also take pauses, since the tool will listen till you click Stop.
Can it transcribe audio to text from a file?
Not here. This tool only listens to your microphone live, so it can't transcribe audio files, convert mp3 to text or turn an old recording to text.
For that, use a transcription service or a free audio to text converter that takes uploads. Want to transcribe audio from a lecture anyway? Play it near the mic in a quiet room. It works, but an upload tool is more accurate.
AI speech to text without an app
Recognition is done by the browser's speech service, the same kind of ai speech to text used in a voice to text app on your phone. Chrome, Edge, and Safari support it, while the Firefox browser does not yet.
The accuracy level is higher with the specific regional language selected and minimal background noise. Is it the best voice to text? For quick voice to text transcription, it is free and fast.
A free voice to text converter, no speech to text app needed
This voice to text converter works within the browser; therefore, there is no speech to text app to install and no account to create.
Voice to text ai from your browser does the work, and you won’t have to worry about your recording ever coming into our possession. Use it for voice transcription with no word limit.
What a paid transcription app adds
Paid transcription apps have features like file upload, speaker identification, timestamps, and cloud syncing. If you do transcription for many hours a week, then it will be worth it.
Speech recognition to dictate notes, ideas, and first drafts can be done for free with your web browser's speech engine.
Everyday users of this tool
Fast thinkers and slow typers, writers who get ideas while walking, people for whom typing is hard because of an injury or dyslexia, and anyone tired of retyping notes.
Three fixes that solve most problems
- Accuracy is poor. Most errors go away when you find a quiet spot, choose the right regional language and speak at an even pace.
- My browser says it is unsupported. Chrome, Edge and Safari have the speech engine this utility uses; Firefox does not yet. This web page informs you instead of failing silently.
- Permission was denied. Allow the microphone again from the padlock icon in the address bar, then refresh the page and click on Start.
The vocabulary around speech to text
- Web Speech API — The browser interface used by this tool: implemented by Chrome, Edge and Safari, but not by Firefox.
- Dictation commands — In English you can say “period” or “comma” to punctuate as you speak.
- Ambient noise — The most important thing for accuracy is the room you are in. A quiet room will outperform an expensive microphone because any background noise will confuse the speech engine.
- Accents and dialects — US or UK English, for example: choosing the right variety helps recognition a lot.
Same tool, many names
No matter how you expressed yourself, this is your page: one fast speech to text that respects both your time and your privacy, not 12 poor clones lying around the web. Feel free to bookmark it by any name you choose:
Of course: no registration, no watermark and no daily paywall. It will still be here next semester.
One page for each job is deliberate. Near-identical pages for every wording are standard SEO, and they're the reason looking for a basic tool is a slog. We'd rather build one good page that's quick, complete and upfront about what it can't do.
This is why the navigation above links to complete tool names and not cute nicknames: when your next job comes around, you will know where to go by reading, not guessing. The whole set is designed for someone in a rush who has never seen it before, and on a deadline, that is all of us.
Speech to Text FAQ
Hit Start, let the browser use your mic and talk. Your words appear live, free and with no sign-up.
The speech engine that the program is using is included in Chrome, Edge, and Safari. Firefox does not yet include it, but the program will be honest about that.
That is not possible for us: recognition occurs via your own browser speech service, and we never see the audio. The transcript is saved in this browser tab and restored upon refreshing or Back navigation.
Definitely: 8 different languages to select from, and the accuracy rate is strong for all the major ones. Just speak clearly and select the correct dialect.
Since the speech engine is already built into your web browser, our system was designed around that. There is nothing for us to meter.
Tool and page last updated: October 2026.