

Apple’s built-in Dictation feature, powered by Siri (we’d be unsurprised if the two merged one day), ships as part of Apple’s desktop and mobile operating systems. Look no further than your Mac, iPhone, or iPad for one of the best dictation tools. Gboard supported languages: Not counting different dialects separately, Gboard supports 47 languages: Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, and Zulu. If you want to dictate texts, emails, or any other short note, use Gboard. For faster talkers, that will feel just right, but for others, it may take getting used to.

Recommendation: Gboard spits out your words on screen as fast as you can say them.

Gboard accuracy: In transcribing a 200-word passage, Gboard made just two errors. It’s not surprising that it was the most accurate in my test. Note: I’ve been using Gboard for about five years, so it has learned my voice and speech patterns. If that happens, just bring the site back up, and your previous dictation will appear on the screen. Enabling the Auto-save feature prevents you from losing work if your browser or window is closed inadvertently. You can edit your speech like you would in any basic word processing program, then save it as a. Voice commands are placed handily to the right of the main window. Then, a few seconds later, the text appears in the main edit window with a word count at the bottom right. Your speech is captured in a window above the edit ribbon that includes a spinning Result Confidence wheel, showing a perceived percentage of correctly transcribed words. To start, select your language in the top left corner, click Start, and begin talking. And they do have a privacy policy that states that, while they don’t store any of your text, it is processed by Google’s servers. Many free dictation sites have an annoying number of ads, but this one keeps it to a manageable one or two.

SpeechTexter is supported only using the Chrome browser or with the Android mobile app.
