Type with your Voice in any language
Use the magic of speech recognition to write emails and documents in Google Chrome.
Dictation accurately transcribes your speech to text in real time. You can add paragraphs, punctuation marks, and even smileys using voice commands.
Voice Dictation - Type with your Voice
Dictation can recognize and transcribe popular languages including English, Español, Français, Italiano, Português, हिन्दी, தமிழ், اُردُو, বাংলা, ગુજરાતી, ಕನ್ನಡ, and more. See full list of supported languages .
You can add new paragraphs, punctuation marks, smileys and other special characters using simple voice commands. For instance, say "New line" to move the cursor to the next list or say "Smiling Face" to insert :-) smiley. See list of supported voice commands .
Dictation uses Google Speech Recognition to transcribe your spoken words into text. It stores the converted text in your browser locally and no data is uploaded anywhere. Learn more .
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Speech to Text Converter
Descript instantly turns speech into text in real time. Just start recording and watch our AI speech recognition transcribe your voice—with 95% accuracy—into text that’s ready to edit or export.
How to automatically convert speech to text with Descript
Create a project in Descript, select record, and choose your microphone input to start a recording session. Or upload a voice file to convert the audio to text.
As you speak into your mic, Descript’s speech-to-text software turns what you say into text in real time. Don’t worry about filler words or mistakes; Descript makes it easy to find and remove those from both the generated text and recorded audio.
Enter Correct mode (press the C key) to edit, apply formatting, highlight sections, and leave comments on your speech-to-text transcript. Filler words will be highlighted, which you can remove by right clicking to remove some or all instances. When ready, export your text as HTML, Markdown, Plain text, Word file, or Rich Text format.
A free speech-to-text converter like no other
Fast, accurate AI transcription that learns how you talk
Expand Descript’s online voice recognition powers with an expandable transcription glossary to recognize hard-to-translate words like names and jargon.
Voice to text meets video editor
Record yourself talking and turn it into text, audio, and video that’s ready to edit in Descript’s timeline. You can format, search, highlight, and other actions you’d perform in a Google Doc, while taking advantage of features like text-to-speec h, captions, and more.
22+ supported languages
Go from speech to text in over 22 different languages, plus English. Transcribe audio in French , Spanish , Italian, German and other languages from around the world. Finnish? Oh we’re just getting started.
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More than just a voice to text converter
Descript is an AI-powered audio and video editing tool that lets you edit podcasts and videos like a doc.
Creation captioned videos and subtitle files from the transcript generated when you convert speech into text with Descript.
Type with your voice or turn what you type into your voice with AI-powered voice cloning and Overdub.
Host your speech-to-text files in Descript including both the transcript and the original voice recording.
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" Descript is an amazing timeline and text-based editor with some incredible features.I love the timeline editor and the ability to do multi-track editing very quickly. "
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" I am new to video content creation and found narration and editing challenging... it cut my work time by more than half and significantly improved quality. "
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Free Transcription Tool
Convert your conversations, audio files, or YouTube videos into text easily using our advanced transcription tool, which supports over 30 languages and dialects.
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Best free ai speech to text.
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Select Your Language : Choose from over 36 languages and dialects.
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