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24 alternatives to Dictation
Easy online speech-to-text dictation in your browser
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 3 we have checked on their own sites, 3 of them free or with a free tier. Dictation launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Dictation▲118The fastest and most accurate speech recognition software
2018 · dictation.io · its alternatives →
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Dictlyfree tier, from $29.99/mo▲240TL;DR: I built a native macOS dictation app that transcribes locally and instantly. Text appears as you speak (measured ~100 ms first‑character latency). No accounts, no servers, no tracking. Links: • Website: https://dictly.app • Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/dictly-no-keys-just-clarity/id... • Free download; optional Pro tier (pipelines, unlimited history, etc.) What it does Real‑time transcription — streaming text while you talk, not after you stop. Quick‑Capture Overlay (macOS) — global hotkey, drop text into any app/field.…
Oct 2025 · dictly.app · its alternatives →
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Typeless▲585AI voice dictation that's actually intelligent
Nov 2025 · typeless.com · its alternatives →
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Monologuefree tier, from $12/mo▲320Effortless voice dictation so you can work 3x faster
2025 · monologue.to · its alternatives →
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Multilingual transcription & translation for Mac
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Learning English made easy & enjoyable through dictation
2024 · easydictation.app · its alternatives →
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SpeakoFlow▲95Free, open-source voice dictation and AI assistant, offline
Aug 2026 · speakoflow.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We were part of YC S24, ended up pivoting around. Made dictation that worked really well, and decided to go all in on agentic. We've done two major things. 1. Scribe is a revamp of our product. Continually learns your style (can get into details if comments want). TLDR; we fingerprint based off your edits, and make dictation sound more and more like you. Post-trained Llama 3.1 8b. 2. Dictation is completely free. Unlimited unpersonalized dictation for everyone.
Jul 2026 · willowvoice.com · its alternatives →
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Google's offline-first AI dictation, powered by Gemma
Apr 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Effortlessly convert your speech into clear, written content
2024 · its alternatives →
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Voice to text with google speech recognition
2025 · speech-typing.com · its alternatives →
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Open source website that can speak what you type!
2021 · offlinetexttospeech.netlify.app · its alternatives →
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Private AI dictation that lets you operate offline.
Jun 2026 · muttervoice.com · its alternatives →
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Get Dragon speech recognition on your mobile device
2015 · microsoft.com · its alternatives →
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Professional voice typing and dictation in 99+ Languages
2025 · dict247.com · its alternatives →
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dicta▲4app that instantly converts speech into shareable text.
Jun 2026 · apkpure.com · its alternatives →
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Transcribe and edit privately, with unlimited minutes
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Dictatofree tier, from $20.82/mo▲93I built a macOS dictation app where everything runs on-device. Transcription, auto-correct, translation. No audio or text leaves your machine. It ships with 4 transcription engines you can swap between: WhisperKit (99 languages), NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B (25 European languages, fastest of the bunch), Qwen3-ASR 0.6B (30 languages), and Apple Speech on macOS 26+. They all run through CoreML/Metal. Whisper is the most versatile, Parakeet wins on raw latency for European languages, Qwen3 does better with CJK. I went with a protocol-based architecture so you pick the engine that fits your…
Feb 2026 · dicta.to · its alternatives →
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Transcribe & edit privately, w/ unlimited minutes on desktop
2020 · its alternatives →
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Codictate▲72I've built an AI dictation tool (like many others), but this time I have taken the time to benchmark all of the 34 models that we provide, so users can actually make a qualified choice on what model should be the daily driver. The best is that it's open source, so if you think we can improve something, please come and help out.
Apr 2026 · codictate.app · its alternatives →
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