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Easy online speech-to-text dictation in your browser
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Amit Agarwal
Dictation — The fastest and most accurate speech recognition software
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Dictation is an online speech recognition app that lets you type with your voice in English, Español, Français, Italiano, Português, हिन्दी, தமிழ், اُردُو, বাংলা, ગુજરાતી, ಕನ್ನಡ, and most other languages.

You can use voice commands like New Line, पूर्ण विराम, dois pontos or Nouveau paragraphe in Français to do more without touching the keyboard.

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Ryan Hoover
Anyone remember Dragon Speak? My grandfather used to use it (he was very slow at typing) but it never worked well. That was over a decade ago.
Amit Agarwal
Maker
Hey PH, Dictation, available at https://dictation.io, lets you type with your voice in all popular language. There are no apps to install and all you need is Google Chrome and a microphone. Dictation uses the web speech API to magically transcribe your spoken voice in real time. It recognizes voice commands, like New Paragraph or Go to Sleep or Insert Happy Face, to help you do more without the keyboard. All your transcribed text is stored in the local browser and it auto-saves everything in the cache. Dictation: https://dictation.io Voice Commands: https://dictation.io/commands Languages: https://dictation.io/Languages FAQ: https://dictation.io/help
Robin Good
@labnol Hi Amit, thanks for having further refined this great little gem. It's a lovely tool and I keep promoting it. One question that often my readers ask me when I mention Dictation.io is: how does it stand up to something like Dragon or other pro tools in this niche. Would you be so kind to highlight a few key differences? Many thanks. Yours truly.
Amit Agarwal
Maker
@robingood I think Google Speech Recognition offers better accuracy as they have a much larger voice database to experiment with. The advantage with Dragon is that it offers OS level control allowing you to control the computer with your voice while Dictation is purely for voice transcription.
Robin Good
@labnol Hi Amit, Google Speech Recognition wasn't part of the equation until a second ago. Are you tacitly implying that Dictation.io is built in GSR? Thanks
Amit Agarwal
Maker
@robingood Internally, it uses the Chrome API itself for speech recognition. The voice commands are built on top of that. See https://dictation.io/commands
Robin Good
@labnol Thank you Amit. Now I am a bit more confused than before. So why did you mention GSR. Is it because it is part of the Chrome API for speech recognition? Can you kindly clarify this, so that we, white belts, can all understand? *Thank you for your patience in replying to all of these naive questions.
Santosh Maharshi
Amazing. And very useful. Showing what i speak in the right, but not on the screen. Will give it detailed try
Stowe Boyd

I'd rather a chrome extension that worked like Grammarly, in any text box I encounter in chrome.

Pros:

Seems to work as advertised

Cons:

Have to use at dictation.io. Doesn't work with Grammarly, show stopper for me.

John
I would +1 that 100% good idea but very buggy from initial testing and not actually seeing any result on speaking, do you plan a C/E or Grammarly addon?
Bren Bauer
I love Grammarly. What's your flow with dictation.io? Do you use the app on your phone?
kushagra gour
Amazingly useful product! Very nice UX too.
Giuliano Ambrosio
WOOOOOOAAAOOOOOO
Pillow John

It's just everything you could want. Simple and easy and it just works.

Pros:

It works so darn well. Why hasn't someone made this already?

Cons:

Fearful they will start charging me soon.

Kishore Bhargava
Will this be coming to tablets and phones anytime soon? That is where it would be excessively useful, not that it is not useful already. Just curious for those more on the move without a desktop browser! Thanks. Great job!
Basilis Garoflos

Πολύ καλή εφαρμογή

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Πολύ καλή εφαρμογή

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Πολύ καλή εφαρμογή

Bruce Brannock

I made a desktop link i would like it to go straight to the program rather than having to click Launch Dictation

Pros:

works great

Cons:

make the desktop link go straight to the program dictation.io/speech

Kazaf Lee

basically a shortcut for Google docs voice tying without a must to use in Google docs

Pros:

easy to use, quick

Cons:

chinese support still far away

neeta sharma

i am always using this product for my voice writing.

Pros:

very good voice writer product.

Cons:

my friends and my self using this products.

Irina Stefania Apostolie

is a very good application

Pros:

The application helps me a lot to transcribe a text

Cons:

understands the Romanian language hard

Luuk Koelman

So far Dragon Dictate is a lot better.

Pros:

Maybe the other languages are oké?

Cons:

Dutch doesn't seem te work. Really silly sentences.

Vel Ravimohan

Tamil typing is also good.

Pros:

Very easy to use.can use without installation,particularly useful where you admin blocks installation.Tamil typing is also good.

Cons:

None so far