Your browser already ships a dictation feature, and it is not what it looks like: it quietly sends your microphone audio to Google's servers to work at all, and the accuracy is still unreliable enough that most people give up on it.
Picture the opposite. A real speech-to-text model loads once into your own browser and never leaves it again. Hold a button, speak, get text. No account, no upload, no server in the loop, ever.
Get the free buildFive steps, all of them in your browser tab. Nothing here talks to a server.
Your browser asks for microphone permission once, the normal way any site would.
Audio is captured locally while you hold the button down.
A speech-to-text model, already downloaded into your browser, runs on your own device.
The transcript lands in a box, ready to copy anywhere.
No audio, no transcript, no request ever reaches a server.
The model is roughly 75MB and downloads once. Your browser caches it, so every visit after that is instant.
Heavy accents, loud rooms, and very short clips hurt any speech model, this one included. A real improvement over built-in browser dictation, not magic.
Works best in a recent Chrome, Edge, or Safari on a laptop or desktop.
The whole thing, delivered to your inbox as one guide. No code to write by hand: you try it, you watch it work.
Hold the button, speak, see your own words appear. Right there on the page, nothing to install.
Drop it into any site you run. No build step, no npm install, no API key, because there is no API.
Hold a key in any app on your computer, not just a browser tab. More accurate, fully offline. Works on recent Macs, Apple Silicon or Intel. On a 6-core Intel Mac we measured about a second between letting go of Control and the words appearing, the same as Apple Silicon; older Intel Macs may take a few seconds.
What this does, what it deliberately does not, and why the free browser version is genuinely enough for most people.
The live demo, the embeddable widget, and the native Mac app, all in one guide. One email with the link. No follow-up sequence unless you ask for one.