Speech to Text (Voice Recognition)
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- Extension status: Featured
An easy to use speech synthesis and recognition tool for your browser!
Speech to Text (Voice Recognition) is an extension that helps you convert your speech to text by using two different speech recognition engines.
The 1st engine is the HTML5 native web speech API for audio transcribing. It is active in most modern browsers by default (more info: https://webaudio.github.io/web-speech-api/). The 2nd API is the Whisper AI engine, which uses a new artificial intelligence method to transcribe audio (more info: https://huggingface.co/onnx-community/whisper-base). Please note that when you choose Whisper AI, the app needs to download training data (~280MB) for the AI engine. So please be patient while the app is loading.
Both engines can recognize a wide variety of languages and related dialects. To work with this extension, simply open the addon's UI and then press on the big microphone icon to start converting your voice to text. Please note that, when the add-on is first started, it asks for microphone permission. Please accept the permission to start working with the add-on. All the captured text is placed in the top text area within the interface. To copy the text, use the (Ctrl + C) keyboard combination. This add-on has no background activities when it is closed.
Note: The Whisper AI engine, once loaded, can work fully offline. Moreover, you can drag and drop an audio file to start transcribing. Please note that this feature is not available for the Web Speech API. If you want to use an audio file for transcribing, please break it into small audio chunks (around a few minutes) as the AI engine runs locally in your browser and is limited in memory and processing power; therefore, it is not capable of handling large audio files.
If you found a bug to report, please fill out the bug report form on the add-on's homepage (https://mybrowseraddon.com/speech-to-text.html).
Latest reviews
- Md Abu Faisal
- Very GOOD
- Dame
- Sometimes it just forgets to transcribe for like 20-30 seconds.
- SETUP HOMETV
- No offline support, no punctuation support
- Amaija Niemi
- It was okay but it couldn't write periods, commas, and it wouldnt let me delete things either and delayed its self. It also misheard me ALOT and didn't know how to captalize sentences. I need a speech to text for my things on my computer not for its own program.
- Bree Walsh
- Works great! Very accurate and picks up my voice from my built-in laptop mic even when I’m several feet away or speaking softly. The ONLY issue is that it doesn’t automatically add punctuation—saying 'period' or 'question mark' just types out the words instead of the actual punctuation marks. Because of this, I highly recommend using SpeechTexter.com instead. It’s not an extension, but I saved it to my bookmarks bar for easy access.
- Arad S.
- It works perfectly on Chrome and Edge. Free with no any hasstles. Thanks developer.
- Robin Denning
- Wow, this app needs work.
- Michal Klemš
- thank you
- Arnold Akshay Krishna
- Hopeless Extension ever, doesnt capture audio properly , i am using Turboscribe : https://turboscribe.ai/ helps you to summarise using AI, and is so good.
- Osman ÇAKMAK
- Work as turkish good.
- Vgh (vghiddy)
- Super helpful if you don't want to type everything. It works very well in my own language (Dutch) and saves a lot of time on typing.
- Md Afzal Ahsan
- Superb for hindi voice to text speech i,m impress.
- Adonis Concannon
- When opened the application appears as a separate pop out window and continues to transcribe in the background without interfering with the use of other tabs or applications. No punctuation and occasional transcription mistakes, but on par with other high quality dictation apps. There seems to be a transcription limit of just under 800 words upon opening, which reduces to just under 400 after continuous use without restart (about 6-8 minutes and 2-4 minutes respectively with a fast talking professor). Once the limit is reached transcription ends despite the microphone remaining on and the preexisting text must be copied to a separate application and cleared before dictation can begin again. When the microphone is turned on there is also a slight buffer period before dictation begins so the app is not ideal for catching long strings of information without breaks. Otherwise an amazing STT app. Highly recommend if length of recording or occasional pauses aren't a concern.
- ricardo mogollan
- This thing works good I'm even using this right now It helps me a bit because I can't type or can't spell it words I don't know in my head Thank you for the team who made this software very Useful I'm always going to use the software
- Pan Sam
- It won't stop when u switch to other tabs,very convenient
- Mykola V
- It doesn't work in Brave browser
- Ramiro Figueiredo
- Excellent extension. There should be a remove languages feature too to make searching the language you want easier.
- Cengiz Kizil
- It works great, and if there was a small icon in the forms on the site and if we clicked on it, it would start typing directly, it would be superb.
- mike lister
- I just now installed it and used it. Works fantastic
- in_space_
- does not have save option.
- Robert T. Yarborough
- Doesn't capture all of the information, and stops in the middle of recording. Tried starting over, but it would not record anything...
- Mofizul Islam
- After installing this extension it's showing. Although I've allowed permission. >> Permission to use the microphone is blocked! >> Please reload the app and try again. Also, this extension has bugs like I want to remove text from the box. But it is not removing.
- Marius Codrin
- >> Permission to use the microphone is blocked! >> Please reload the app and try again. but it doesn't ask for permissions like other sites or extensions, and it is not an app, but it says "restart the app" - what app?
- Marius Codrin
- >> Permission to use the microphone is blocked! >> Please reload the app and try again. but it doesn't ask for permissions like other sites or extensions, and it is not an app, but it says "restart the app" - what app?
- Deeper With Diego
- Doesn't allow me to record any voice.
- Noah ノア
- Excellent for convert HongKonger Cantonese
- Kirk Brewer (kirkyeehee)
- For what it's worth, it does work, but it lacks punctuation and you cannot dictate directly into any text fields on a web page. It's all done in a pop up window, then you ahve to copy and paste anything over.
- Kingshuk Mitra (K)
- Can understand Hindi and Bengali as well!
- Alan Shepherd
- Picks up my voice reasonably well but the lack of punctuation makes it useless.
- Alan Shepherd
- Picks up my voice reasonably well but the lack of punctuation makes it useless.
- Holistic Helpline
- it works great... saves a lot of typing....
- Holistic Helpline
- it works great... saves a lot of typing....
- Adam Dubé
- very great free tool, works well with slang and in multiple language
- Süleyman A.
- please add dark mode !!!
- John Weiss
- Keeps timing out and turning itself off. That's very inconvenient.
- John Weiss
- Keeps timing out and turning itself off. That's very inconvenient.
- Fabian Radomski
- It worked pretty well for what I wanted it to do.
- Reawakening Helpline
- One of the best extensions to work with really really convenient.
- Hannah Desmond
- it spells out 'full stop', 'comma' etc. Not fit fur purpose.
- Karl Pearson
- I give it 2 stars for working at all, after those who say it doesn't work. HOWEVER, why doesn't iot know things like, "new line", "paragraph", "period", "comma", or any other punctuation? That's kind of important, isn't it? Even my phones 'Messaging" app knows to automatically punctuate. It does it wrong half the time, but at least it's trying. This app tries nothing at all. Example using my first sentence above: I give it two stars for working at all comma after those who say it doesn't work period
- Developer Brainbox
- Not working, Micrphone keep disabled after clicking on it.
- Yuka Sidharta
- Not working
- Yuka Sidharta
- Not working
- Angus Davidson
- The program deletes what you've said when you clicked on the mic symbol!
- Angus Davidson
- The program deletes what you've said when you clicked on the mic symbol!
- Amanuel Eshetu
- no punctuation and the font size if off by 0.5 for some reason
- Amanuel Eshetu
- no punctuation and the font size if off by 0.5 for some reason
- Asad Dastgir
- Not working
- Asad Dastgir
- Not working
- Anon Saejiw
- support many laguages but should have option to detect and change any text into customized word or should be option to add your own word to dictionary