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.
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Dictation.io
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. Dictation can recognize and transcribe popular languages including English, Español, Français, Italiano, Português, and many more. 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. 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. Dictation lets you write text in any language by voice alone, without needing a keyboard or mouse.
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Loqua
Speak, Loqua already knows.
Typing is the bottleneck of your genius. Traditional dictation apps just transcribe your "uhhs" and "umms," leaving you with a wall of garbage text. Enter Loqua.
Loqua is a 100% Mac-native voice AI that doesn't just listen—it understands your context. Whether you are coding in VS Code, replying in Slack, or drafting in Notion, Loqua types perfectly structured text directly at your cursor. Zero context-switching. Zero copy-pasting.
✨ Core Features:
Auto-Structuring Engine: Speak your messy stream of consciousness. Loqua instantly filters filler words and outputs clean, punctuated, and bulleted text.
Voice-Driven Contextual Edits: Highlight any text, press <Fn> + <Space>, and tell Loqua to "Make this a formal email" or "Summarize this." It rewrites in place.
Instant Translation: Highlight and press <Fn> + <Shift> to dictate or translate seamlessly across 15+ languages.
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Azure Speech to Text
Quickly and accurately transcribe audio to text in more than 85 languages and variants. Customize models to enhance accuracy for domain-specific terminology. Get more value from spoken audio by enabling search or analytics on transcribed text or facilitating action, all in your preferred programming language. Get accurate audio to text transcriptions with state-of-the-art speech recognition. Add specific words to your base vocabulary or build your own speech-to-text models. Run Speech to Text anywhere, in the cloud or at the edge in containers. Access the same robust technology that powers speech recognition across Microsoft products. Convert audio to text from a range of sources, including microphones, audio files, and blob storage. Use speaker diarisation to determine who said what and when. Get readable transcripts with automatic formatting and punctuation. Tailor your speech models to understand organization- and industry-specific terminology.
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