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Type with your voice. Dictation turns your Google Chrome into a speech recognition app.
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You can use Google Chrome as a voice recognition app and type long documents, emails and school essays without touching the keyboard.
Dictation uses Chrome's Local Storage to automatically save the transcriptions and thus you'll never lose your work. There's no need for the Save button.
Internally, it uses the Web Speech API of Chrome that is supported in all the newer release of Chrome browser including Google Chrome on Android.
The app is integrated with Dropbox and Google Drive to help you easily export the transcribed text to your various online accounts. Alternatively, your can send the dictated text to any email address.
Latest reviews
- (2021-05-13) Mr.6 Win: I never left any review until today. This app really SUCKS! It forced me to install 3 extensions and still can not work! Are you out of your mind ?
- (2020-11-22) Abhra “da G” Joshi: all fine wanted somthing more but its useful
- (2020-09-24) Eric Parent: USELESS! I dictate my field notes daily when driving between jobs in my work van (I'm a home inspector). The google dictate in my phone is very accurate, even with transcribing technical terms (thermal bridging, truss joists, differential settlement, etc.). I therefore decided to try out dictation on my home computer. Microsoft's built-in dictation in Office 365 is ok, but not nearly as good as Google. I therefore tried this app, since it advertised itself as the Google Dictate app, however this tool's accuracy is ridiculously poor. And it's not the device, I'm using the same headset I use in my van when travelling at over 120 with the windows down.
- (2020-02-04) Adam Towns: Awesome
- (2020-01-20) W W: I gave up after one minute...
- (2019-11-10) Charles Lewis: Do you people think it is better than the speech recognition system that comes with Word 2019? I am not sure yet. My old Dragon system was better than either of these, I think.
- (2019-09-25) Erskin Hansen: I had some quirks getting my mic recognized, but that was because I screwed up the settings with an app the other day. Once my mic was recognized properly things worked out like a charm. Full disclosure... I was using a headset mic. I wouldn't try this using a laptop built-in mic, you're just asking for trouble if you're doing that. All in all, I'm rather impressed with how things worked out. 5 stars!
- (2019-08-11) Cheryl Cade: It's picking up about half the words in each sentence, and 25% of the words it transcribes are wrong. I could have typed it out faster and with many less errors.
- (2019-06-26) ilie Tilica: It's really working and it's simple. I like it.
- (2018-08-27) Daniel Esterhuizen: Easy to use and very accurate
- (2018-07-11) Ajaykumar Reddy Ankinapalli (Aj): comes in handy
- (2018-06-09) Riley Holmes: Getting maybe 40% accuracy. Tested with the following lines: "There are 45 idiots on a bus going to Alcatraz. You get off on the second stop. How many idiots are still on the bus?" Gave me "There are 40 idiots John Douglas." That was all. Needs work.
- (2018-05-19) Online Teaching 365: i love it
- (2018-04-09) Subhankar Rana: Good
- (2018-02-16) Swapnil Mungale: It works with almost 90% efficiency,
- (2018-01-05) KiwiMO_01: I like this app. it allows for my voice defects and ok its writes the word comma instead of placing a comma but overall very will done...thank author
- (2018-01-04) Lars Enochsson: Why do you not work on it so it gets better. Then it will be a hit.
- (2017-11-27) John van Gurp: It works well enough, but for some reason it frequently adds a space before a period. The interface looks a little dated as well.
- (2017-11-23) G MAX: Sucks.
- (2017-11-03) Roger Robertson: Does excellent, I have no problems with prediction or anything. I too wish it was better at things like {BACKSPACE} to erase wrong or changed words. Over all I think it's great.
- (2017-10-27) Izzat Khayyat: Works like a charm! would like "in page" extension to write text directly to the open tab, and probably the web address too.
- (2017-10-04) Tsinat Gebreselassie: I just downloaded Google voice recognition only a few moments ago and I'm quite impressed. The voice recognition capability of this app is fantastic. I have tried several voice recognizers in the past few days and this is by far the best at actually understanding what I'm saying .
- (2017-08-14) Ian Danforth: My father is deaf but does not know sign-language. This app let me have the most efficient and natural conversation I've had with him in years. Thank you so much!
- (2017-08-05) Igor Timokhin: Absolutely useless. After installation doesn't appear at plug-ins list so that is why impossible to delete it. Peace of ***
- (2017-07-24) Alan Byron: Didn't work at all on my computer.
- (2017-07-23) Better than Dragon. Very useful for 'cut and paste'
- (2017-07-21) Muhammad Bin Zafar: Bestest. ever...Coolest.
- (2017-07-17) Raising Up Teens Family: fustrating app
- (2017-07-17) Robin Lefever: I have only just started using this and I doubt I will use it a great deal as I already find Siri good enough for most of my dictation needs but this was simple, fast to load and very accurate and so I shall keep it as a bookmark on my chrome account for those odd occasions I need to quickly dictate something. I was disappointed to read a couple of very critical reviews that clearly weren't relating to this product. I have marked them as spam in the hope they are taken out of these reviews. Please do the same if you see them.
- (2017-06-15) Russell Mickler: It's great. If I could only get it to recognize my command to capitalize words. Other than that, quick and accurate with zero training. R
- (2017-06-06) Sue Kinzelman: If I stop talking for a short time, the mic turns off. Then if I want to talk again, it removes everything I typed in. Is there a way to keep the mic on? The recognition is very good.
- (2017-05-25) Hollie LaNae: not a fan. too many bugs.
- (2017-04-25) Adam Oldfield: I absolutely love this program. It is one of the best and use it quite frequently with dictating a lot of my emails and personal messages. I would have to say it's 75% accurate and has assisted me in making my fingers a little less strained when needing to send a message
- (2017-04-22) Paul Ross Sandilands: works for me
- (2017-03-17) Karl Pearson: Not as good as I wish, but at least I recognize that the weaknesses from Google I don't like are mostly my own fault for not correcting my own user dictionary. Once I go in and fix things, this works better, too, because it's tied to Google. Another reviewer or more have complained that it's totally useless because it's tied to Google. Well, those complainers need to go look in the mirror because if Google's searches for them are totally useless, it's their own fault. Totally. That makes me laugh because they don't understand how to use Google to their own best end, and blame Google instead of themselves, where the problem largely lies.
- (2017-03-17) Sanjay Bharatiya: This is awesome application given that it is free to use. I was looking for something like this on Google play store but did not find anything which can be used for free (without ads too). This is really great.
- (2017-03-11) GinPok: I only use VR when doing longer applications like a paragraph or two. I like it for that. Always need to go back over to look/fix errors. But its worth it.
- (2017-03-07) Gazni Mahmood: Why no Arabic Language ???!!!!
- (2017-03-06) Непристойное Животное: works great!
- (2017-02-24) Ricky Bremme: You saved my life . I got shot by a thieve in real life , and i refuse to quit collegue. This app is a lifesaver for me. Thankyou from the bottom of my heart.
- (2017-02-22) Lara Olson: Not helpful. It gets stuck after three or four words in a sentence.
- (2017-02-08) Joel Johnson: This is the best dictation recognition app I have used since Dragon Dictation. I am using this in a business setting and after long calls this eliminates at least 10 minutes of re-writing notes. Keep up the amazing work at it is 99% accurate especially with business terminology.
- (2017-01-31) CEM: not much better than voice typing built into chrome. works ok for a small paragraph that you have to cut & paste. doesn't work directly in other apps.
- (2017-01-22) Sharon C: useless,suddenly stops listening then starts again. Doesn't understand basic words.
- (2017-01-14) John T Crilly: Just brilliant, don't know how anybody can complain about something which is free, especially when you have go out of your way to make something for them, if they are not happy there are other programs that you can pay for, I am absolutely delighted with your program thank you.
- (2017-01-05) Gotzon Egia: Very accurate for Basque language. Even numbers and proper names are well spelt.
- (2017-01-01) Bry NIN: I was wondering if it is possible to allow a right click function. So that this extension could be used in all text/comment boxes? Thank you for this.
- (2016-12-03) Asa Martin: This was a terrible experience. The dictation doesn't even pick up all of my words, and each time i try to undo something I'm typing, it completely screws up everything that is already down. Words are deleted or scrambled, my changes to the sentences written by this incompetent software are deleted or have the original added on top of it. All in all, don't waste your time. Use Apple's dictation which is at least easier to use, or onboard dictation on whatever computer you are on.
- (2016-11-30) Harmony Hardly: THANK U SOOO MUCH 4 CREATING THIS 4ME & BLESSING ME WITH THIS APP 4FREE. GOD KNOWS I COULDN'T AFFORD IT ANY OTHER WAY. YOU'VE BLESSED ME W/OUT KNOWING. I ONLY HAVE 1 THING THAT WOULD MAKE IT 5STARS....IS THAT AS MUCH AS I LUV THIS APP, I WAS LOOKING FOR A APP LIKE THIS THAT WOULD BE AN EXTENSION OF GOOGLE TO WHEREVER ONLINE THAT I NEED 2 TYPE IT WOULD BE RIGHT THERE TO ASSIST ME IN THAT. BUT THE ONLY REASON I'M GONNA KEEP THIS APP IZ BECAUSE IT'S TOTALLY WORTH IT, CAUSE IT'S SOO SIMPLE & GOD KNOWS I'M ALWAYS LOOKING 4 THE SIMPLICITY 4MY COMPUTER SINCE I SUFFER FROM SLITE BRAIN DAMAGE DUE TO A CAR ACCIDENT & I DON'T HAVE A SUPPORT SYSTEM ANYMORE. SO I'LL BE HERE 2SEE ALL THE GREAT IMPROVEMENTS/UPGRADES THAT I "KNOW" YOU'LL BE ADDING.....RIIIIIGHT???...LOL!! THANX AMILLION,SINCERELY, HARMONY HARDLY "LUVNMYNEIGHBORZ"
- (2016-10-23) Dieu Hien Ho Thi: good