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Monologue
Every
Monologue is a voice-to-text productivity app for Mac that lets users speak naturally and have their words converted into polished writing, while adapting to their personal style, vocabulary, and typical contexts. It supports over 100 languages, auto-recognizes user-specific phrasing (jargon, custom terms, etc.), works across many apps (like text editors, email, docs), and offers features like punctuation insertion, editing while dictating, voice commands, and integration with open models so the transcription is both fast and private. The goal is to help people “stay in the flow” of their ideas without interrupting momentum for typing; Monologue claims to reduce friction between thinking and writing, letting users dictate emails, documents, notes or drafts using voice, then edit or refine as needed. The interface is simple, with minimal latency, and it emphasizes letting the speaker maintain their style (not forcing standard patterns).Starting Price: $100 per year -
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Typeless
Typeless
Typeless is a content personalization platform that helps brands automate writing, testing, and optimization of digital messages (emails, SMS, pushes, landing pages) through AI. It connects via API or app integrations to data systems (CRM, CDP, data warehouse) so audience segments, attributes, and behavior signals can power content variation. For each message, Typeless generates multiple personalized versions, adjusting tone, style, structure, or message body, then sends partial samples to small audience slices to AB test and choose the best performer. Over time, it learns which creative variants work best for specific segments and behavior patterns, driving improved engagement and conversion. The system supports multi-step messaging flows, campaign orchestration, and creative governance (ensure consistency, compliance, or brand voice). By closing the loop between data, content generation, and performance, Typeless enables marketers to scale personalized messaging.Starting Price: $12 per month -
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VoiceInk
VoiceInk
VoiceInk is a native macOS dictation app that uses local AI models to instantly turn speech into clean text with near-perfect accuracy and complete privacy. It works across apps, letting users dictate emails, messages, notes, prompts, documents, and code without changing their workflow. Local models keep audio and processing on the Mac, while cloud providers are optional and only used when connected and selected by the user. Global shortcuts support toggle recording, push-to-talk, retry, cancel, and paste actions without reaching for the app. A personal dictionary teaches VoiceInk names, technical terms, unusual spellings, phrases, and Smart Replace shortcuts for frequently used text. Contextual awareness can use selected text, clipboard content, or visible screen text to improve transcription and AI-enhanced output. Modes let users save different transcription models, enhancement prompts, context settings, output behavior, and shortcuts for specific apps, websites, or tasks.Starting Price: $29 one-time payment -
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Spokenly
Spokenly
Spokenly is an AI-powered dictation app for Mac, iPhone, Windows, and Linux that turns speech into clean, punctuated text wherever you work. Hold a shortcut, speak naturally, and release to place the transcription directly at the cursor in browsers, email, chat, word processors, IDEs, terminals, and other apps. It supports more than 100 languages, including mixed-language dictation, and offers both local and cloud speech-to-text models. Whisper, Parakeet, and other on-device models can run completely offline, while cloud engines from providers such as OpenAI, Deepgram, Groq, Soniox, and ElevenLabs can be used for higher-accuracy or real-time transcription. Local Only Mode blocks network requests so voice data stays on the device. Modes let users save different transcription models, AI providers, prompts, and output styles for specific tasks, while AI Instructions can remove filler words, fix grammar and punctuation, summarize, rewrite, translate, or reformat dictated text.Starting Price: $8.33 per month -
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Handy
Handy.computer
Handy is a free, open source, cross-platform speech-to-text app that runs completely offline and puts whatever you say directly into any text field. Press and hold a configurable keyboard shortcut, speak, and release; Handy records your voice, transcribes it locally, and pastes the result into the app you are using. Push-to-talk is enabled by default, but users can switch to a toggle mode that starts and stops recording with separate key presses. Handy supports macOS, Windows, and Linux and keeps voice data on the computer instead of sending audio to cloud services. Users can choose between Whisper models and Parakeet V3, Whisper provides broad multilingual support across more than 99 languages, while Parakeet V3 is optimized for fast CPU performance and automatic language detection. Silence is filtered with voice activity detection, and GPU acceleration is available for Whisper where supported.Starting Price: Free -
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FluidVoice
ALTIC
FluidVoice is a free, open source macOS dictation app that pairs local speech recognition with Fluid-1, an on-device AI model for polishing dictation. One hotkey lets users speak into any text field across email, documents, chat, terminals, code editors, and other apps, with text appearing in near real time. Local speech models keep dictation on-device and work offline, while optional AI post-processing can use Fluid Intelligence, OpenAI, Groq, or custom providers. Fluid-1 cleans up rough dictation, fixes formatting, capitalization, dates, names, and numbers, and adapts tone to the active app without changing the speaker’s meaning. Users can create custom prompts for different apps, while Write Mode, Command Mode, and Direct Dictation make it easy to switch contexts. FluidVoice supports more than 40 languages across models including Nemotron Speech 3.5, Parakeet Flash, Parakeet TDT v2 and v3, Cohere Transcribe, Apple Speech, and Whisper.Starting Price: Free -
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Pocket
Pocket
Pocket is a screen-free personal AI assistant designed to capture thoughts and conversations in the real world, then turn them into organized, actionable knowledge. With one tap, it records meetings, client calls, brainstorms, ideas, and personal reflections so users can stay present instead of taking notes. Pocket uses two studio microphones and one contact microphone for clear, speaker-separated audio, including phone calls without speaker mode, with a recording range of up to 15 meters. Its AI generates transcripts, crisp summaries, action items, to-dos, and dynamic mind maps in more than 120 languages, helping users recall what mattered and see what to do next. Pocket is model-agnostic and can use systems such as GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini to match the task. Ask Pocket lets users question their captured conversations, while summary styles, custom templates, speaker identification, daily highlights, meeting reminders, and task integrations turn recordings into reusable workflows.Starting Price: $16.59 per month -
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DictaFlow
DictaFlow
DictaFlow is an AI dictation app for Windows, Mac, iPhone, and Android via Telegram that turns messy speech into clean text wherever the cursor is. Hold a keyboard shortcut, mouse button, or VDI-safe trigger, speak naturally, and release to insert text directly into email, documents, IDEs, EHRs, browsers, terminals, notes, and remote desktops. It is built for the messy parts of dictation, including names, acronyms, code terms, drug names, clinical shorthand, contract language, accents, and more than 100 languages. DictaFlow understands mid-sentence corrections such as “actually” and “I mean,” so users can fix mistakes without breaking rhythm, and AI cleanup can turn rough speech into emails, bullets, code comments, meeting notes, prompts, or formatted text as they talk. Users can also highlight existing text in apps such as Word, Slack, or VS Code and edit it by voice.Starting Price: $5.75 per month -
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Paraspeech
Paraspeech
Paraspeech is a speech-to-text app for Mac and iOS that turns spoken thoughts into clean text with a simple hold, speak, and release workflow. On Mac, users press and hold a hotkey in the app where they want to write, speak naturally, and release; Paraspeech processes the recording and attempts to insert the result directly into the active editable field, with clipboard fallback for unsupported fields. Apple Silicon Macs can use supported local speech modes, allowing audio to be transcribed on-device and work offline after setup, while eligible cloud-backed paths are also available depending on the selected backend. Fast local models cover English, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and 25-language dictation, while Multilingual Large expands coverage to more than 100 languages where available. AI Rewriting can turn rambling speech into cleaner, formatted text through Cloud Cleanup or, where supported, an on-device rewrite model.Starting Price: $14.99 per month -
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Apple Dictation
Apple
Apple Dictation is a built-in macOS feature that lets users speak to enter text anywhere they can type. Once Dictation is enabled, it can be started with the Microphone key, a customizable keyboard shortcut, or Start Dictation, then stopped with Escape, the same shortcut, or the Microphone key. On Apple silicon Macs, users can continue typing while they dictate, and Dictation resumes listening after keyboard input stops. Spoken commands can insert emoji, punctuation, new lines, and new paragraphs, while supported languages can automatically add commas, periods, and question marks. Dictation supports text of any length and stops automatically after 30 seconds without detected speech. When macOS is uncertain about a word, it underlines the text so users can choose an alternative or correct it manually. Multiple Dictation languages can be enabled and switched while speaking, and users can select a preferred microphone or let macOS choose automatically.Starting Price: Free -
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The Altos, Inc. transcription department is ready to work for you. We offer highly qualified and trained professionals that are expert in medical and legal transcription. We provide accurate and secure transcriptions within your timeframes. STAT and Rush requests are a priority. We use the Six Sigma Quality Management Process to keep our quality standards high and up-to-date. We also have a library of different forms and templates available for you to use. Our goal is to provide you with reliable and on-time reporting that you can feel confident to sign off on. Our professionals are trained in generating reports from dictation and/or paperwork. We have vast experience in med-legal reporting from AME, QME, and IME reports to treating reports, diagnostic testing, and correspondence. Our HIPAA compliant services include secure web-based access with 24/7 phone dictation and the ability to transcribe from most digital dictation formats.Starting Price: $100 per month
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Boost productivity and profitability by empowering your teams to spend less time transcribing, and more time on higher-priority work. Enable accurate dictation that’s not only fast to complete, but incredibly straightforward to manage with configurable workflows. Staff can record simply using their voice via desktop, mobile or tablet, and easily share, prioritize and track files.
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SpeechExec
Philips Dictation
SpeechExec Pro Dictation and Transcription Software links authors and transcriptionists. It facilitates communication, the setup of individual workflow settings and organizational flexibility to help save time and resources. Authors can record directly into the software using a dictation microphone and transcriptionists can playback and conveniently transcribe these files using a foot control.Starting Price: $139 one-time payment -
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Speechnotes
Speechnotes
Speechnotes is a powerful speech-enabled online notepad, designed to empower your ideas by implementing a clean & efficient design, so you can focus on your thoughts. We strive to provide the best online dictation tool by engaging cutting-edge speech-recognition technology for the most accurate results technology can achieve today, together with incorporating built-in tools (automatic or manual) to increase users' efficiency, productivity and comfort. Works entirely online in your Chrome browser. No download, no install and even no registration needed, so you can start working right away. Speechnotes is especially designed to provide you a distraction-free environment. Every note, starts with a new clear white paper, so to stimulate your mind with a clean fresh start. All other elements but the text itself are out of sight by fading out, so you can concentrate on the most important part, your own creativity. -
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Dictation Pro
DeskShare
Having difficulty in typing your documents? Speak and let Dictation Pro type for you. Prepare your letters, reports, e-mails, or homework assignments just by speaking into a microphone. A good-quality headset is required. Dictation Pro is fast, easy and fun. You'll wonder how you managed without it! Type the documents with minimum keystrokes and mouse clicks. Dictation Pro turns your voice into text and enable hands-free typing of document. Speak into your microphone and words will appear on the computer screen, instantly, 10 times faster than typing. People have different voice modulations. Voice Training process helps Dictation Pro to identify your voice pitch and tone. The more you use Dictation Pro, the more accurate speech recognition will become. You can add special phrases, names or technical terms into the Vocabulary, for even more accurate dictation. Instead of using mouse or keyboard, just speak the command and Dictation Pro executes it for you. -
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Dictation Speech to Text
IBN Software
You can now add custom words to improve speech recognition! Find the list in setup->manage custom words. Dictation Speech to text allows to dictate, record, translate and transcribe text instead of typing. It uses latest speech to text voice recognition technology and its main purpose is speech to text and translation for text messaging. Never type any text, just dictate and translate using your speech! Nearly every app that can send text messages can be configured to operate with 'Dictation Speech to text'. Dictate uses the builtin speech to text recognition engine. Dictation Speech to text supports more than 40 languages. Dictate offers 3 text zones, indicated by language flags, for which you can configure a different language in the settings. Thus you can switch between different language projects with a singe click. Translation is as easy as pushing the translation button. You can specify the translation target language in the app settings.Starting Price: $4.49 one-time payment -
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Speechy
Speechy
Speechy is an easy-to-use real-time dictation application based on the latest artificial intelligence and powerful speech recognition engine. In Speechy you can dictate the speech into text without the need for a keyboard to enter text. It also helps pronunciation practice of foreign language learning and minutes of meeting memo. Speechy not only transcribes your words, but also records your VOICE so you can refer to the original recording later! Plus, you can easily share your text and audio files later! (Works with Evernote, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, WhatsApp and other iOS supported sharing apps.) Whether you’re a professional writer, doctor, lawyer, disabled or somehow prevented from traditional typing, Speechy will swiftly solve your transcription problems and help you achieve your writing goals today! And Speechy doesn’t stop there! Speechy is global-focused, and will recognize your native language.Starting Price: $5.99 one-time payment -
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Dragon Legal
Nuance Communications
Dragon Legal is a specialized speech recognition software tailored for legal professionals, offering a legal-specific language model trained on over 400 million words from legal documents. This enables attorneys and legal practitioners to dictate contracts, briefs, and legal citations with up to 99% accuracy, three times faster than typing. The software supports the creation of custom voice commands to automate repetitive tasks and allows for the transcription of pre-recorded audio files, enhancing workflow efficiency. Optimized for Windows 11 and compatible with Windows 10, Dragon Legal v16 also provides accessibility features such as "play that back" audio of dictated text and sophisticated macro commands, accommodating legal professionals with physical or cognitive disabilities. Additionally, it offers integration with Dragon Anywhere Mobile, a cloud-based dictation solution for iOS and Android devices, ensuring productivity on the go.Starting Price: $799 one-time payment -
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Express Dictate
Express Dictate
This digital dictation software can dramatically improve turn-around time and lets you work wherever you want. It is quicker to send, higher quality and more reliable than traditional dictation options. It will also keep track of the progress of work and expected completion time. As an alternative to dictating at your computer you can also use your existing portable dictaphone or other digital dictation recorder while you are away from your computer. The Express Dictate 'Dock' feature lets you transfer the dictation quickly and easily and send it to your typist electronically. Digital audio recording with superb signal processing quality. Automatic non-destructive editing with multiple record modes including record-insert, record-overwrite and record-at-end. Ability to prompt for patient or file data before recording starts. Dock analog or digital handheld dictation recorders and transmit recordings made when away from your computer.Starting Price: $9-99 one-time payment -
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Aiko
Sindre Sorhus
Aiko is an AI-powered audio transcription app for macOS, iOS, and visionOS. The app converts speech to text from meetings, lectures, recordings, and other audio files using OpenAI’s Whisper model running locally on the user’s device. Aiko is designed for high-quality on-device transcription, making it useful for sensitive recordings that should remain private. The app supports Shortcuts, allowing users to build workflows for recording, transcribing, copying, saving, or processing transcripts. It is available as a Universal Purchase across supported Apple platforms. Built for Apple users who need private speech-to-text, Aiko helps turn audio into text without sending recordings to cloud transcription services.Starting Price: Free -
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Thinkbuddy
Thinkbuddy
Set up your shortcut keys and radically transform how you work. if you have a question, just ask out loud. Receive answers with GPT-4 quality. A quick chat is ready for you and everything is at your fingertips. Press the shortcut after selecting the text, and AI will execute your spoken or typed command. Customize your shortcuts, quickly adapt with a few tries, and start using them immediately. Enjoy clutter-free prompts with our clipboard paste that intelligently appends your text. Create your custom prompts, use them whenever you want, and save your time. Leverage OpenAI Whisper-powered dictation for answering emails & writing messages. Switch between models without monthly cost and get the best Mac experience for less. Choose the text you want to respond to, and we'll present you with the most likely options based on the selected text and the app you're using. Select the email, press your shortcut, and simply choose from the options provided.Starting Price: $10 per month -
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Superwhisper
Superwhisper
Superwhisper is a voice-to-text app that lets users dictate, transcribe, and control writing workflows across apps without relying on the keyboard. The platform works on Mac, Windows, and iOS, with voice input that can be used in tools such as Slack, Cursor, Notion, Claude Code, Codex, and other agentic coding apps. Superwhisper supports push-to-talk, custom shortcuts, file transcription, meeting recording, custom modes, vocabulary settings, and AI-enhanced output. Users can create modes for different tasks, languages, tones, formats, prompts, and applications. The platform supports more than 100 languages and lets users choose from models such as GPT, Claude, Llama, Grok, Gemini, and others. Built for fast-moving professionals, developers, writers, and teams, Superwhisper helps turn speech into polished text, commands, transcripts, and AI-ready prompts.Starting Price: $8.49 per month -
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Echo Speech-to-Text
Echo Speech-to-Text
Voice typing. Dictate into any website. Real-time voice transcription. Echo - Speech-to-Text is a state-of-the-art voice typing tool that works on most websites. Experience the most accurate speech recognition accuracy available. Key Features: - ✨ Automatic Punctuation: Enjoy automatic punctuation for polished, professional text. - 🗣️ Voice Type Directly into Textbox: No weird overlay or copy-pasting. - 🌍 Multi-language Support: Supports 50+ languages, including English, Spanish, German, French, etc. - 🛠️ Custom Vocabularies: Add specialized vocabulary or uncommon nouns to boost transcription accuracy. - ⌨️ Keyboard Shortcut: Start and pause voice recognition quickly with a simple keyboard shortcut. 🔒 Trusted and Secure Your privacy is our priority – we do not collect or share your data. We do NOT store any dictation text in our database. 🛡️ HIPAA Compliance We are HIPAA compliant in practice. Audio recordings are never stored. Transcription texts areStarting Price: $5 -
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Voicy
Voicy Speech-to-Text
Voicy - Write with your voice, everywhere. A free speech-to-text Chrome extension that lets you write with your voice on every text field on the internet. Voicy is powered by AI for enhanced accuracy and automatic punctuation and grammar fixes. Once installed, a microphone element will appear next whenever you click on a text field on the internet. That microphone element allows you to dictate your text directly into the text field.Starting Price: $6.99/month -
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Dictanote
Dictanote
Dictanote is a modern notes app with built-in speech-to-text integration, enabling users to voice-type notes in over 50 languages. It combines a rich-text editor with advanced speech recognition, allowing seamless switching between voice and keyboard input. Users can organize their thoughts, ideas, and research into unlimited notebooks, each containing multiple notes, facilitating efficient categorization. Dictanote supports custom voice commands, enabling automation of repetitive text entries and correction of dictation errors. It also offers AudioScribe, a smart AI writing assistant that transcribes voice notes into clear, summarized text, automatically adding punctuation and removing filler words. All notes are securely encrypted on Dictanote servers, ensuring data privacy. It also provides Dictanote Transcribe, a service that converts pre-recorded audio files into text.Starting Price: $5 per month -
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Voibe
Voibe
Voibe is the fastest way to write on Mac with your voice. Dictate in any app, get accurate text instantly, and stay in flow. It is fully offline and private by design, running locally with state of the art Speech to text models optimized to run on the device. No cloud processing, no audio uploads. It is ideal for anyone who writes a lot or works, helping you draft emails, notes, documents, and long form content faster and with less strain than typing. It also fits modern AI workflows, since speaking full context is often easier than typing, which leads to clearer instructions and better outputs. For many active users of Voibe, it has effectively become a replacement of their keyboard.Starting Price: $4.90/month -
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Whisperstream
Lanreal Technologies Inc.
Whisperstream is Windows-native dictation that runs on your PC. Press a hotkey, speak, and your words are cleaned up, formatted for the app you're in, and pasted into the focused window: your IDE, email, notes, or chat. Audio never leaves your device, because transcription runs locally on your CPU (NVIDIA Parakeet and Qwen3 ASR, 39 languages). On a supported GPU the AI cleanup runs on-device too, with no API key. It removes filler words and false starts, then formats per app: code in your editor, prose in email, a quick line in chat. Every dictation is saved to a private, encrypted local history you can search and replay, and you can import audio files to transcribe meetings and memos. Works offline. No telemetry, no screen capture. $29 one-time, 7-day unlimited free trial. No subscription, no per-minute fees. Built for privacy-critical professionals, Windows builders, and anyone tired of cloud-tied dictation.Starting Price: $29 one time -
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Speakmac
Speakmac
Speakmac is a private, on-device voice typing app that lets users talk instead of type in any application. Hold or trigger the dictation shortcut, speak naturally, and the app transcribes locally, placing text into the active window in under half a second without sending audio to the cloud. Speakmac automatically handles commas, periods, capitalization, and other grammar details, so casual speech arrives as clean, readable text. It is designed to work anywhere there is a blinking cursor, including browsers, editors, chat apps, documents, email, AI tools, and productivity software. The app supports more than 100 languages and adapts to different accents, with examples including English, Spanish, Chinese, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Ukrainian, Finnish, and many others. Speakmac runs as a lightweight native background application rather than an Electron or web wrapper, keeping memory use low and the experience responsive.Starting Price: $29 one-time payment -
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SpeechTexter
SpeechTexter
SpeechTexter is a free multilingual speech-to-text application aimed at assisting you with transcription of any type of documents, books, reports or blog posts by using your voice. SpeechTexter allows adding custom voice commands for punctuation marks and some actions (undo, redo, make a new paragraph). Accuracy levels higher than 90% should be expected. It varies depending on the language and the speaker. SpeechTexter is used daily by students, teachers, writers, bloggers around the world. Voice-to-text software is exceptionally valuable for people who have difficulty using their hands due to trauma, people with dyslexia or disabilities that limit the use of conventional input devices. It will assist you in minimizing your writing efforts significantly. It can also be used as a tool for learning a proper pronunciation of words in the foreign language, in addition to helping a person develop fluency with their speaking skills. No download, installation or registration is required. -
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Speechlogger
Speechlogger
Generate .srt files, using Speechlogger’s automatica transcription for your own speech, movies, or other audio files. Then you may take the file and automatically translate it into any language to produce international subtitles. For best results, it is best to listen to the movie and dictate it yourself in real-time. Meeting with foreign guests? Bring a laptop (or two) with speechlogger and a microphone. Each party will see the other’s spoken words translated into their own language in real time. It is also useful on a phone call in a foreign language, to make sure you fully understand the other side. Connect your phone’s audio output to your computer’s line-in and start Speechlogger. Both for face to face interactions, and as a caption-phone, Speechlogger can assist the hard of hearing by showing them on the big screen whatever is being said. It is completely automatic, with no human-typist hearing your conversations.