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2. Gboard
A screenshot of Gboard, one of the best talk-to-text software tools
Price: Free
Gboard is a good voice-to-text app offered by Google, and it comes natively installed on all Android devices (though it’s available for iPhones as well).
In addition to typing out text for you, Gboard can perform philippines phone number example searches on Google or Maps and even translate text from other languages (It supports 916 different languages and dialects, by the way).
Using it is super simple. When you pull up the keyboard in any app, you just press the microphone button in the top corner, and away you go.
3. Windows Speech
Price: Free (with Windows or Microsoft 365)
Windows Speech—also called Windows 11 Speech Recognition or Voice Typing—is a dictation tool for Windows computers. It comes automatically installed on all Windows devices, so you don’t have to pay to use it.
To use this tool, all you do is press Win + H. That’s it! You should see a little dialogue box open that lets you press a microphone button to start recording. Then you just start speaking, and it will transcribe what you say.
4. Apple Dictation
Screenshot of Apple Dictation as another option for one of the good speech-to-text apps
Price: Free (with Apple device)
Apple Dictation is basically just the Apple version of the previous two tools. It’s available on iPhones, iPads, and Macs. To use it on a mobile device, you just do exactly what you do with Gboard—pull up the keyboard and press the microphone button.
Meanwhile, on Mac, you have to enable it in System Preferences. Then, you can use a keyboard shortcut (the default one is usually to press Fn twice) to start dictating.