Speech to Text

Free Online Speech to Text Converter

This speech to text tool lets you dictate text using your microphone and see it transcribed in real time, directly in your browser. It uses the Web Speech API built into modern browsers like Chrome, Edge, and Safari, so nothing is installed, uploaded, or sent to a third-party server. Your voice data stays between you and your browser.

How It Works

Click the microphone button and start speaking. The tool captures audio from your device microphone and converts it to text on the fly. You can pause, resume, and edit the transcript at any point. When you are finished, copy the text to your clipboard with one click. The language selector supports over 35 languages and regional variants, including English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, and many more.

Use Cases

Speech to text is useful for a wide range of tasks. Writers and journalists use it to draft articles and interview notes without typing. Students transcribe lectures and revision notes hands-free. Professionals dictate emails, meeting minutes, and reports when typing is inconvenient. It is also a helpful accessibility tool for anyone who finds extended keyboard use difficult or painful.

Browser Compatibility

The Web Speech API is supported in most Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera) and Safari on macOS and iOS. Firefox has partial support. If your browser does not support speech recognition, you will see a clear message explaining the limitation. For the best experience, use the latest version of Chrome or Edge. A working microphone and permission to use it are the only requirements.

Privacy

All processing happens locally in your browser. No audio is recorded, stored, or transmitted to any external server by this tool. Chromium browsers may use Google's servers for speech recognition processing — this is handled by the browser itself, not by ectoplasma. We have no access to your audio or transcript data at any point.