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Notta is your advanced online voice translator tool that effortlessly converts voice-to-text with exceptional accuracy and speed. With Notta, you can seamlessly transcribe and translate your audio files online without downloading software.

Revolutionize communication with Notta AI audio translator

Looking for a fast translation of your English audio file into other languages? Notta is your go-to solution. Easily managing audio/video files in multiple languages, Notta transcribes the audio to text and then translates it into your preferred language. This audio translator effortlessly overcomes language barriers with accuracy and simplicity!

How to translate audio to text

1. Upload the audio

Import any audio or video files from anywhere, whether it's on your laptop, YouTube, Google Drive, or Dropbox. Notta supports many popular audio or video file formats, including MP3, WAV, MOV, AAC, and MP4, to ensure an easy and hassle-free experience..

2. Transcribe & Translate

When the upload is complete, Notta will automatically transcribe the audio and generate the transcript in just a few minutes based on the length of your file. Proofread and edit the transcript in the online editor, select the desired translation language from the “Translation” menu and Notta will translate all the text in just one click.

3. Export & Share

Click on “Export” and select your preferred format, such as TXT, DOCX, XLSX, PDF, or SRT. Additionally, you can easily share the transcript with translation to friends or team members by generating a link. It's that easy to translate your audio to text.

Enhance your speech-to-text experience with Notta

Focus on your conversations instead of constantly taking notes

Tired of constantly juggling between participating in conversations and taking notes? Say goodbye to distractions and hello to seamless engagement with Notta - the best online transcription tool. Notta’s audio-to-text capabilities are available in 50+ languages.

Summarize meetings with AI templates to stay organized

Notta uses AI to automatically transcribe and summarize your meetings so you can make decisions faster. With Notta’s pre-defined templates, you can streamline post-meeting processes and ensure that key insights and action items are captured accurately and efficiently.

Easily export & share in multiple ways to boost productivity

Notta offers unparalleled flexibility with various export file formats and sharing methods. Effortlessly export transcripts in various formats such as TXT, PDF, DOCX, or SRT, and share them via email, link, or integrated apps like Notion, Salesforce, and Zapier.

Why choose Notta

Easy to use.

Notta's intuitive design ensures an accessible and efficient experience. Unlock the power of audio translation and streamline your content creation workflow like never before.

High accuracy

Up to 98.86% transcription accuracy to help you get transcription and translation for voice recordings, podcasts, and YouTube videos without further revisions.

Various import file formats

Notta accepts all major file formats for audio - MP3, WAV, WMA, M4A, and many more. You can also upload files in multiple video formats like MP4, AVI, AIFF, and so on.

Sync across devices

Notta enables you to stay productive by keeping your recordings up to date across devices. It allows you to access your data regardless of whether you're using Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, or other platforms.

Multi-language

Notta can recognize and convert your audio or video to text in 58 different languages, including English, Spanish, German, Russian, French, Portuguese, Hindi, and many more.

Security & privacy

With enterprise-grade security built as standard, we aim to protect your privacy and keep your information safe by strictly following the SSL, GDPR, APPI, and CCPA international safety regulations.

Frequently asked questions

How many languages can I translate my audio to?

With N otta's audio language translation feature, you can translate your audio to text in up to 42 languages, ensuring your content reaches a global audience.

How long does it take to transcribe and translate audio files?

Notta's advanced machine learning algorithms c an translate an audio file of 1 hour in just 5 minutes. The translation process time may vary depending on the language and the length of the audio.

Can I convert audio to text online without downloading anything?

Absolutely! Notta's online voice translator feature allows you to upload your audio files directly to our web platform and get them transcribed and translated without additional software downloads.

Which audio file formats can I upload on Notta?

Notta supports a wide range of audio file formats for translation, including WAV, MP3, M4A, CAF, and AIFF. This flexibility ensures you can effortlessly translate voice to text, regardless of the original audio format.

How can I download my translations?

Once you r audio file translation is complete, you can easily download the translated text in TXT format. Here is how:

Kindly tap the three dots "..." on your screen's upper right corner.

Choose whether you want to download the translation with the original text or just the translation alone.

Then select the 'Export" function to export the transcript in TXT format.

Notta also offers the option to generate a URL link for easy sharing with colleagues.

What our users say

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The translation feature of Notta has been incredibly helpful for my work. It allows me to easily translate text from one language to another, helping me to understand and incorporate different perspectives into my writing. Real-time transcription is also available, so you don't have to interrupt the conversation even if there are parts you can't hear during the meeting.

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Breaking language barriers with AI audio translator: Transcribe and translate your audio

Revolutionize communication with VEED’s AI audio-to-text translator

Need to translate content to foreign languages? VEED’s AI audio-to-text translator is a groundbreaking solution to language barriers. Our audio translator uses artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to translate audio files accurately. It’s the perfect tool for content creators and companies that must translate their internal communications.

Transcribe voice recordings, meetings, interviews, and more! VEED’s powerful audio translator can automatically detect any language in your audio files and transcribe it to text instantly. Use our auto-subtitle tool to transcribe your recordings. Feel free to edit and reword the transcription when it’s ready. Use VEED’s audio translator to fast-track speech recognition to transcription. Use our transcription software instead of relying on Google Translate.

How to auto translate transcripts:

Upload or record

Upload your audio to VEED or start recording using our online audio recorder. You can also transcribe your videos and download the transcript file.

Transcribe, translate, and refine

Click auto-subtitle from the Subtitle menu. Select a language and translate your transcript. You can edit and refine the wording by clicking on a line of code.

Export the TXT file or keep creating

You can export the transcript as either a TXT or VTT file. Or you can keep using our wide range of video and audio editing tools to create awesome videos and audio clips!

Watch this walkthrough of our audio translator tool:

Fast, accurate, and reliable translations!

Accuracy and reliability are crucial in translations. You can be sure of optimal quality with the advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning technology in VEED's Audio Translator. Our speech-recognition software will automatically transcribe your audio or video, saving you hours of manual transcription work. For 100% accuracy, simply edit and reword the text.

Perfect for podcasts, interviews, and business meetings

VEED’s audio translator can transcribe various audio content—podcasts for Spotify, interviews, speeches, and more. Captions of your video content make it more accessible to a wider audience. Generating a transcription also lets you reformulate content into blogs and articles. You can also translate videos instantly.

Highly customizable: translations tailored to your needs!

VEED’s Audio Translator offers customizable options to tailor your audio translation to your needs. Translate your media into over 100 languages, including Chinese, Dutch, German, Spanish, American English, British English, and more! Transcribe audio to text and add subtitles to create globally accessible content.

• Upload Audio (or video)
• Click ‘Subtitles’ on the left
• Select ‘Auto Transcribe Subtitles’
• Choose your language and press ‘START’
• Edit text, style, font and more
• Download as text (or SRT

Simple! Upload your voice recording, follow the instructions above, and download it as text or SRT. Or, attach it to a video as commentary.

Transcription is free. Translation and converting files to text or SRT formats require a premium subscription. Check our pricing page for more info.

VEED is a fully online tool; no app or software to download! Upload, transcribe, and download without ever leaving your browser.

VEED accepts all major file formats for audio - MP3, AAC, WMA, M4A, and many more. You can also upload files in multiple video formats like MP4, AVI, MPEG, and so on.

Of course! VEED is a mobile-friendly tool; all features can be easily used on mobile. Use VEED on Safari, Chrome, and any other mobile browser. VEED recognizes all mobile file formats, including MP3 and MOV.

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What they say about VEED

Veed is a great piece of browser software with the best team I've ever seen. Veed allows for subtitling, editing, effect/text encoding, and many more advanced features that other editors just can't compete with. The free version is wonderful, but the Pro version is beyond perfect. Keep in mind that this a browser editor we're talking about and the level of quality that Veed allows is stunning and a complete game changer at worst.

I love using VEED as the speech to subtitles transcription is the most accurate I've seen on the market. It has enabled me to edit my videos in just a few minutes and bring my video content to the next level

Laura Haleydt - Brand Marketing Manager, Carlsberg Importers

The Best & Most Easy to Use Simple Video Editing Software! I had tried tons of other online editors on the market and been disappointed. With VEED I haven't experienced any issues with the videos I create on there. It has everything I need in one place such as the progress bar for my 1-minute clips, auto transcriptions for all my video content, and custom fonts for consistency in my visual branding.

Diana B - Social Media Strategist, Self Employed

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Our audio translator is only one of many tools you can use on VEED. You can create your own captions, hard-code subtitles into your video, and lots more! Plus, it’s a professional, all-in-one video editor. Use VEED to edit videos, add background music, stickers, progress bars, and much more. Cut, split, and compress your videos for faster rendering. VEED is a browser-based tool that helps creators like you make highly engaging content for your followers. We built VEED so you can focus on creating impactful content without wasting time and energy using complex software.

Speech to Text - Voice Typing & Transcription

Take notes with your voice for free, or automatically transcribe audio & video recordings. secure, accurate & blazing fast..

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Start taking notes, on our online voice-enabled notepad right away, for free.

Transcribe Recordings

Automatically transcribe (as well as summarize & translate) audios & videos. Upload files from your device or link to an online resource (Drive, YouTube, TikTok or other). Export to text, docx, video subtitles & more.

Speechnotes is a reliable and secure web-based speech-to-text tool that enables you to quickly and accurately transcribe your audio and video recordings, as well as dictate your notes instead of typing, saving you time and effort. With features like voice commands for punctuation and formatting, automatic capitalization, and easy import/export options, Speechnotes provides an efficient and user-friendly dictation and transcription experience. Proudly serving millions of users since 2015, Speechnotes is the go-to tool for anyone who needs fast, accurate & private transcription. Our Portfolio of Complementary Speech-To-Text Tools Includes:

Voice typing - Chrome extension

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Speechnotes' API enables you to send us files via standard POST requests, and get the transcription results sent directly to your server.

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Combine the power of automatic transcriptions with Zapier's automatic processes. Serverless & codeless automation! Connect with your CRM, phone calls, Docs, email & more.

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TextHear for iOS, works great on iPhones, iPads & Macs. Designed specifically to help people with hearing impairment participate in conversations. Please note, this is a sister app - so it has its own pricing plan.

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Dictation Notepad

Start taking notes with your voice for free

Speech to Text online notepad. Professional, accurate & free speech recognizing text editor. Distraction-free, fast, easy to use web app for dictation & typing.

Speechnotes is a powerful speech-enabled online notepad, designed to empower your ideas by implementing a clean & efficient design, so you can focus on your thoughts. We strive to provide the best online dictation tool by engaging cutting-edge speech-recognition technology for the most accurate results technology can achieve today, together with incorporating built-in tools (automatic or manual) to increase users' efficiency, productivity and comfort. Works entirely online in your Chrome browser. No download, no install and even no registration needed, so you can start working right away.

Speechnotes is especially designed to provide you a distraction-free environment. Every note, starts with a new clear white paper, so to stimulate your mind with a clean fresh start. All other elements but the text itself are out of sight by fading out, so you can concentrate on the most important part - your own creativity. In addition to that, speaking instead of typing, enables you to think and speak it out fluently, uninterrupted, which again encourages creative, clear thinking. Fonts and colors all over the app were designed to be sharp and have excellent legibility characteristics.

Example use cases

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• Transcribers (listen and dictate)

Transcription Service

Start transcribing

Fast turnaround - results within minutes. Includes timestamps, auto punctuation and subtitles at unbeatable price. Protects your privacy: no human in the loop, and (unlike many other vendors) we do NOT keep your audio. Pay per use, no recurring payments. Upload your files or transcribe directly from Google Drive, YouTube or any other online source. Simple. No download or install. Just send us the file and get the results in minutes.

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Key Advantages

Speechnotes is powered by the leading most accurate speech recognition AI engines by Google & Microsoft. We always check - and make sure we still use the best. Accuracy in English is very good and can easily reach 95% accuracy for good quality dictation or recording.

Lightweight & fast

Both Speechnotes dictation & transcription are lightweight-online no install, work out of the box anywhere you are. Dictation works in real time. Transcription will get you results in a matter of minutes.

Super Private & Secure!

Super private - no human handles, sees or listens to your recordings! In addition, we take great measures to protect your privacy. For example, for transcribing your recordings - we pay Google's speech to text engines extra - just so they do not keep your audio for their own research purposes.

Health advantages

Typing may result in different types of Computer Related Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI). Voice typing is one of the main recommended ways to minimize these risks, as it enables you to sit back comfortably, freeing your arms, hands, shoulders and back altogether.

Saves you time

Need to transcribe a recording? If it's an hour long, transcribing it yourself will take you about 6! hours of work. If you send it to a transcriber - you will get it back in days! Upload it to Speechnotes - it will take you less than a minute, and you will get the results in about 20 minutes to your email.

Saves you money

Speechnotes dictation notepad is completely free - with ads - or a small fee to get it ad-free. Speechnotes transcription is only $0.1/minute, which is X10 times cheaper than a human transcriber! We offer the best deal on the market - whether it's the free dictation notepad ot the pay-as-you-go transcription service.

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Transcription

$0.1 /minute.

• Pay as you go - no subscription
• Audio & video recordings
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• REST API, webhooks & Zapier integration

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Privacy policy.

We at Speechnotes, Speechlogger, TextHear, Speechkeys value your privacy, and that's why we do not store anything you say or type or in fact any other data about you - unless it is solely needed for the purpose of your operation. We don't share it with 3rd parties, other than Google / Microsoft for the speech-to-text engine.

Privacy - how are the recordings and results handled?

- transcription service.

Our transcription service is probably the most private and secure transcription service available.

• HIPAA compliant.
• No human in the loop. No passing your recording between PCs, emails, employees, etc.
• Secure encrypted communications (https) with and between our servers.
• Recordings are automatically deleted from our servers as soon as the transcription is done.
• Our contract with Google / Microsoft (our speech engines providers) prohibits them from keeping any audio or results.
• Transcription results are securely kept on our secure database. Only you have access to them - only if you sign in (or provide your secret credentials through the API)
• You may choose to delete the transcription results - once you do - no copy remains on our servers.

- Dictation notepad & extension

For dictation, the recording & recognition - is delegated to and done by the browser (Chrome / Edge) or operating system (Android). So, we never even have access to the recorded audio, and Edge's / Chrome's / Android's (depending the one you use) privacy policy apply here.

The results of the dictation are saved locally on your machine - via the browser's / app's local storage. It never gets to our servers. So, as long as your device is private - your notes are private.

Payments method privacy

The whole payments process is delegated to PayPal / Stripe / Google Pay / Play Store / App Store and secured by these providers. We never receive any of your credit card information.

More generic notes regarding our site, cookies, analytics, ads, etc.

• We may use Google Analytics on our site - which is a generic tool to track usage statistics.
• We use cookies - which means we save data on your browser to send to our servers when needed. This is used for instance to sign you in, and then keep you signed in.
• For the dictation tool - we use your browser's local storage to store your notes, so you can access them later.
• Non premium dictation tool serves ads by Google. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings . Alternatively, users can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting https://youradchoices.com/
• In case you would like to upload files to Google Drive directly from Speechnotes - we'll ask for your permission to do so. We will use that permission for that purpose only - syncing your speech-notes to your Google Drive, per your request.

Speech to Text Converter

Descript instantly turns speech into text in real time. Just start recording and watch our AI speech recognition transcribe your voice—with 95% accuracy—into text that’s ready to edit or export.

How to automatically convert speech to text with Descript

Create a project in Descript, select record, and choose your microphone input to start a recording session. Or upload a voice file to convert the audio to text.

As you speak into your mic, Descript’s speech-to-text software turns what you say into text in real time. Don’t worry about filler words or mistakes; Descript makes it easy to find and remove those from both the generated text and recorded audio.

Enter Correct mode (press the C key) to edit, apply formatting, highlight sections, and leave comments on your speech-to-text transcript. Filler words will be highlighted, which you can remove by right clicking to remove some or all instances. When ready, export your text as HTML, Markdown, Plain text, Word file, or Rich Text format.

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Expand Descript’s online voice recognition powers with an expandable transcription glossary to recognize hard-to-translate words like names and jargon.

Record yourself talking and turn it into text, audio, and video that’s ready to edit in Descript’s timeline. You can format, search, highlight, and other actions you’d perform in a Google Doc, while taking advantage of features like  text-to-speec h, captions, and more.

Go from speech to text in over 22 different languages, plus English. Transcribe audio in  French ,  Spanish , Italian, German and other languages from around the world. Finnish? Oh we’re just getting started.

Yes, basic real-time speech to text conversion is included for free with most modern devices (Android, Mac, etc.) Descript also offers a 95% accurate text-to-speech converter for up to 1 hour per month for free.

Speech-to-text conversion works by using AI and large quantities of diverse training data to recognize the acoustic qualities of specific words, despite the different speech patterns and accents people have, to generate it as text.

Yes! Descript‘s AI-powered Overdub feature lets you not only turn speech to text but also generate human-sounding speech from a script in your choice of AI stock voices.

Descript supports speech-to-text conversion in Catalan, Finnish, Lithuanian, Slovak, Croatian, French (FR), Malay, Slovenian, Czech, German, Norwegian, Spanish (US), Danish, Hungarian, Polish, Swedish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese (BR), Turkish.

Descript’s included AI transcription offers up to 95% accurate speech to text generation. We also offer a white glove pay-per-word transcription service and 99% accuracy. Expanding your transcription glossary makes the automatic transcription more accurate over time.

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Speech-to-text used to be regarded as very niche, specifically serving either people with accessibility needs or for  dictation . However, speech-to-text is moving more and more into the mainstream as office work can now routinely be completed more simply and easily by using voce-recognition software, rather than having to type through members, and speaking aloud for text to be recorded is now quite common.

While the best speech to text software used to be specifically only for desktops, the development of mobile devices and the explosion of easily accessible apps means that transcription can now also be carried out on a  smartphone  or  tablet . 

This has made the best voice to text applications increasingly valuable to users in a range of different environments, from education to business. This is not least because the technology has matured to the level where mistakes in transcriptions are relatively rare, with some services rightly boasting a 99.9% success rate from clear audio.

Even still, this applies mainly to ordinary situations and circumstances, and precludes the use of technical terminology such as required in legal or medical professions. Despite this, digital transcription can still service needs such as basic  note-taking  which can still be easily done using a phone app, simplifying the dictation process.

However, different speech-to-text programs have different levels of ability and complexity, with some using advanced machine learning to constantly correct errors flagged up by users so that they are not repeated. Others are downloadable software which is only as good as its latest update.

Here then are the best in speech-to-text recognition programs, which should be more than capable for most situations and circumstances.

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1. Dragon Anywhere

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Reasons to buy

Reasons to avoid.

Dragon Anywhere is the Nuance mobile product for Android and iOS devices, however this is no ‘lite’ app, but rather offers fully-formed dictation capabilities powered via the cloud. 

So essentially you get the same excellent speech recognition as seen on the desktop software – the only meaningful difference we noticed was a very slight delay in our spoken words appearing on the screen (doubtless due to processing in the cloud). However, note that the app was still responsive enough overall.

It also boasts support for boilerplate chunks of text which can be set up and inserted into a document with a simple command, and these, along with custom vocabularies, are synced across the mobile app and desktop Dragon software. Furthermore, you can share documents across devices via Evernote or cloud services (such as Dropbox).

This isn’t as flexible as the desktop application, however, as dictation is limited to within Dragon Anywhere – you can’t dictate directly in another app (although you can copy over text from the Dragon Anywhere dictation pad to a third-party app). The other caveats are the need for an internet connection for the app to work (due to its cloud-powered nature), and the fact that it’s a subscription offering with no one-off purchase option, which might not be to everyone’s tastes.

Even bearing in mind these limitations, though, it’s a definite boon to have fully-fledged, powerful voice recognition of the same sterling quality as the desktop software, nestling on your phone or tablet for when you’re away from the office.

Nuance Communications offers a 7-day free trial to give the app a try before you commit to a subscription. 

Read our full Dragon Anywhere review .

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2. Dragon Professional

Should you be looking for a business-grade dictation application, your best bet is Dragon Professional. Aimed at pro users, the software provides you with the tools to dictate and edit documents, create spreadsheets, and browse the web using your voice.   

According to Nuance, the solution is capable of taking dictation at an equivalent typing speed of 160 words per minute, with a 99% accuracy rate – and that’s out-of-the-box, before any training is done (whereby the app adapts to your voice and words you commonly use).

As well as creating documents using your voice, you can also import custom word lists. There’s also an additional mobile app that lets you transcribe audio files and send them back to your computer.   

This is a powerful, flexible, and hugely useful tool that is especially good for individuals, such as professionals and freelancers, allowing for typing and document management to be done much more flexibly and easily.

Overall, the interface is easy to use, and if you get stuck at all, you can access a series of help tutorials. And while the software can seem expensive, it's just a one-time fee and compares very favorably with paid-for subscription transcription services.

Also note that Nuance are currently offering 12-months' access to Dragon Anywhere at no extra cost with any purchase of Dragon Home or Dragon Professional Individual.

Read our full Dragon Professional review .

Otter is a cloud-based speech to text program especially aimed for mobile use, such as on a laptop or smartphone. The app provides real-time transcription, allowing you to search, edit, play, and organize as required.

Otter is marketed as an app specifically for meetings, interviews, and lectures, to make it easier to take rich notes. However, it is also built to work with collaboration between teams, and different speakers are assigned different speaker IDs to make it easier to understand transcriptions.

There are three different payment plans, with the basic one being free to use and aside from the features mentioned above also includes keyword summaries and a wordcloud to make it easier to find specific topic mentions. You can also organize and share, import audio and video for transcription, and provides 600 minutes of free service.

The Premium plan also includes advanced and bulk export options, the ability to sync audio from Dropbox, additional playback speeds including the ability to skip silent pauses. The Premium plan also allows for up to 6,000 minutes of speech to text.

The Teams plan also adds two-factor authentication, user management and centralized billing, as well as user statistics, voiceprints, and live captioning.

Read our full Otter review .

Verbit aims to offer a smarter speech to text service, using AI for transcription and captioning. The service is specifically targeted at enterprise and educational establishments.

Verbit uses a mix of speech models, using neural networks and algorithms to reduce background noise, focus on terms as well as differentiate between speakers regardless of accent, as well as incorporate contextual events such as news and company information into recordings.

Although Verbit does offer a live version for transcription and captioning, aiming for a high degree of accuracy, other plans offer human editors to ensure transcriptions are fully accurate, and advertise a four hour turnaround time.

Altogether, while Verbit does offer a direct speech to text service, it’s possibly better thought of as a transcription service, but the focus on enterprise and education, as well as team use, means it earns a place here as an option to consider.

Read our full Verbit review .

5. Speechmatics

Speechmatics offers a machine learning solution to converting speech to text, with its automatic speech recognition solution available to use on existing audio and video files as well as for live use.

Unlike some automated transcription software which can struggle with accents or charge more for them, Speechmatics advertises itself as being able to support all major British accents, regardless of nationality. That way it aims to cope with not just different American and British English accents, but also South African and Jamaican accents.

Speechmatics offers a wider number of speech to text transcription uses than many other providers. Examples include taking call center phone recordings and converting them into searchable text or Word documents. The software also works with video and other media for captioning as well as using keyword triggers for management.

Overall, Speechmatics aims to offer a more flexible and comprehensive speech to text service than a lot of other providers, and the use of automation should keep them price competitive.

Read our full Speechmatics review .

6. Braina Pro

Braina Pro is speech recognition software which is built not just for dictation, but also as an all-round digital assistant to help you achieve various tasks on your PC. It supports dictation to third-party software in not just English but almost 90 different languages, with impressive voice recognition chops.

Beyond that, it’s a virtual assistant that can be instructed to set alarms, search your PC for a file, or search the internet, play an MP3 file, read an ebook aloud, plus you can implement various custom commands.

The Windows program also has a companion Android app which can remotely control your PC, and use the local Wi-Fi network to deliver commands to your computer, so you can spark up a music playlist, for example, wherever you happen to be in the house. Nifty.

There’s a free version of Braina which comes with limited functionality, but includes all the basic PC commands, along with a 7-day trial of the speech recognition which allows you to test out its powers for yourself before you commit to a subscription. Yes, this is another subscription-only product with no option to purchase for a one-off fee. Also note that you need to be online and have Google ’s Chrome browser installed for speech recognition functionality to work.

Read our full Braina Pro review .

7. Amazon Transcribe

Amazon Transcribe is as big cloud-based automatic speech recognition platform developed specifically to convert audio to text for apps. It especially aims to provide a more accurate and comprehensive service than traditional providers, such as being able to cope with low-fi and noisy recordings, such as you might get in a contact center .

Amazon Transcribe uses a deep learning process that automatically adds punctuation and formatting, as well as process with a secure livestream or otherwise transcribe speech to text with batch processing.

As well as offering time stamping for individual words for easy search, it can also identify different speaks and different channels and annotate documents accordingly to account for this.

There are also some nice features for editing and managing transcribed texts, such as vocabulary filtering and replacement words which can be used to keep product names consistent and therefore any following transcription easier to analyze.

Overall, Amazon Transcribe is one of the most powerful platforms out there, though it’s aimed more for the business and enterprise user rather than the individual.

8. Microsoft Azure Speech to Text

Microsoft 's Azure cloud service offers advanced speech recognition as part of the platform's speech services to deliver the Microsoft Azure Speech to Text functionality. 

This feature allows you to simply and easily create text from a variety of audio sources. There are also customization options available to work better with different speech patterns, registers, and even background sounds. You can also modify settings to handle different specialist vocabularies, such as product names, technical information, and place names.

The Microsoft's Azure Speech to Text feature is powered by deep neural network models and allows for real-time audio transcription that can be set up to handle multiple speakers.

As part of the Azure cloud service, you can run Azure Speech to Text in the cloud, on premises, or in edge computing. In terms of pricing, you can run the feature in a free container with a single concurrent request for up to 5 hours of free audio per month.

Read our full Microsoft Azure Speech to Text review .

9. IBM Watson Speech to Text

IBM's Watson Speech to Text works is the third cloud-native solution on this list, with the feature being powered by AI and machine learning as part of IBM's cloud services.

While there is the option to transcribe speech to text in real-time, there is also the option to batch convert audio files and process them through a range of language, audio frequency, and other output options.

You can also tag transcriptions with speaker labels, smart formatting, and timestamps, as well as apply global editing for technical words or phrases, acronyms, and for number use.

As with other cloud services Watson Speech to Text allows for easy deployment both in the cloud and on-premises behind your own firewall to ensure security is maintained.

Read our full Watson Speech to Text review .

1. Google Gboard

If you already have an Android mobile device, then if it's not already installed then download Google Keyboard from the Google Play store and you'll have an instant text-to-speech app. Although it's primarily designed as a keyboard for physical input, it also has a speech input option which is directly available. And because all the power of Google's hardware is behind it, it's a powerful and responsive tool.

If that's not enough then there are additional features. Aside from physical input ones such as swiping, you can also trigger images in your text using voice commands. Additionally, it can also work with Google Translate, and is advertised as providing support for over 60 languages.

Even though Google Keyboard isn't a dedicated transcription tool, as there are no shortcut commands or text editing directly integrated, it does everything you need from a basic transcription tool. And as it's a keyboard, it means should be able to work with any software you can run on your Android smartphone, so you can text edit, save, and export using that. Even better, it's free and there are no adverts to get in the way of you using it.

2. Just Press Record

If you want a dedicated dictation app, it’s worth checking out Just Press Record. It’s a mobile audio recorder that comes with features such as one tap recording, transcription and iCloud syncing across devices. The great thing is that it’s aimed at pretty much anyone and is extremely easy to use. 

When it comes to recording notes, all you have to do is press one button, and you get unlimited recording time. However, the really great thing about this app is that it also offers a powerful transcription service. 

Through it, you can quickly and easily turn speech into searchable text. Once you’ve transcribed a file, you can then edit it from within the app. There’s support for more than 30 languages as well, making it the perfect app if you’re working abroad or with an international team. Another nice feature is punctuation command recognition, ensuring that your transcriptions are free from typos.   

This app is underpinned by cloud technology, meaning you can access notes from any device (which is online). You’re able to share audio and text files to other iOS apps too, and when it comes to organizing them, you can view recordings in a comprehensive file. 

3. Speechnotes

Speechnotes is yet another easy to use dictation app. A useful touch here is that you don’t need to create an account or anything like that; you just open up the app and press on the microphone icon, and you’re off.   

The app is powered by Google voice recognition tech. When you’re recording a note, you can easily dictate punctuation marks through voice commands, or by using the built-in punctuation keyboard. 

To make things even easier, you can quickly add names, signatures, greetings and other frequently used text by using a set of custom keys on the built-in keyboard. There’s automatic capitalization as well, and every change made to a note is saved to the cloud.

When it comes to customizing notes, you can access a plethora of fonts and text sizes. The app is free to download from the Google Play Store , but you can make in-app purchases to access premium features (there's also a browser version for Chrome).   

Read our full Speechnotes review .

4. Transcribe

Marketed as a personal assistant for turning videos and voice memos into text files, Transcribe is a popular dictation app that’s powered by AI. It lets you make high quality transcriptions by just hitting a button.   

The app can transcribe any video or voice memo automatically, while supporting over 80 languages from across the world. While you can easily create notes with Transcribe, you can also import files from services such as Dropbox.

Once you’ve transcribed a file, you can export the raw text to a word processor to edit. The app is free to download, but you’ll have to make an in-app purchase if you want to make the most of these features in the long-term. There is a trial available, but it’s basically just 15 minutes of free transcription time. Transcribe is only available on iOS, though.   

5. Windows Speech Recognition

If you don’t want to pay for speech recognition software, and you’re running Microsoft’s latest desktop OS, then you might be pleased to hear that speech-to-text is built into Windows.

Windows Speech Recognition, as it’s imaginatively named – and note that this is something different to Cortana, which offers basic commands and assistant capabilities – lets you not only execute commands via voice control, but also offers the ability to dictate into documents.

The sort of accuracy you get isn’t comparable with that offered by the likes of Dragon, but then again, you’re paying nothing to use it. It’s also possible to improve the accuracy by training the system by reading text, and giving it access to your documents to better learn your vocabulary. It’s definitely worth indulging in some training, particularly if you intend to use the voice recognition feature a fair bit.

The company has been busy boasting about its advances in terms of voice recognition powered by deep neural networks, especially since windows 10 and now for Windows 11 , and Microsoft is certainly priming us to expect impressive things in the future. The likely end-goal aim is for Cortana to do everything eventually, from voice commands to taking dictation.

Turn on Windows Speech Recognition by heading to the Control Panel (search for it, or right click the Start button and select it), then click on Ease of Access, and you will see the option to ‘start speech recognition’ (you’ll also spot the option to set up a microphone here, if you haven’t already done that).

Aside from what has already been covered above, there are an increasing number of apps available across all mobile devices for working with speech to text, not least because Google's speech recognition technology is available for use. 

iTranslate Translator  is a speech-to-text app for iOS with a difference, in that it focuses on translating voice languages. Not only does it aim to translate different languages you hear into text for your own language, it also works to translate images such as photos you might take of signs in a foreign country and get a translation for them. In that way, iTranslate is a very different app, that takes the idea of speech-to-text in a novel direction, and by all accounts, does it well. 

ListNote Speech-to-Text Notes  is another speech-to-text app that uses Google's speech recognition software, but this time does a more comprehensive job of integrating it with a note-taking program than many other apps. The text notes you record are searchable, and you can import/export with other text applications. Additionally there is a password protection option, which encrypts notes after the first 20 characters so that the beginning of the notes are searchable by you. There's also an organizer feature for your notes, using category or assigned color. The app is free on Android, but includes ads.

Voice Notes  is a simple app that aims to convert speech to text for making notes. This is refreshing, as it mixes Google's speech recognition technology with a simple note-taking app, so there are more features to play with here. You can categorize notes, set reminders, and import/export text accordingly.

SpeechTexter  is another speech-to-text app that aims to do more than just record your voice to a text file. This app is built specifically to work with social media, so that rather than sending messages, emails, Tweets, and similar, you can record your voice directly to the social media sites and send. There are also a number of language packs you can download for offline working if you want to use more than just English, which is handy.

Also consider reading these related software and app guides:

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Which speech-to-text app is best for you?

When deciding which speech-to-text app to use, first consider what your actual needs are, as free and budget  options may only provide basic features, so if you need to use advanced tools you may find a paid-for platform is better suited to you. Additionally, higher-end software can usually cater for every need, so do ensure you have a good idea of which features you think you may require from your speech-to-text app.

To test for the best speech-to-text apps we first set up an account with the relevant platform, then we tested the service to see how the software could be used for different purposes and in different situations. The aim was to push each speech-to-text platform to see how useful its basic tools were and also how easy it was to get to grips with any more advanced tools.

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The best speechwriters know how to quickly build rapport with their clients.  When you hire a freelance speechwriter (which could be searched as “hire a speech writer), it’s important to note that they are professionals who have established processes. 

First, you should expect the writer to ask many questions about the event.  Detail is key to ensuring the audience doesn’t question the authenticity of the speech.

Next, the writer will help the speaker with their original ideas and from an outside perspective considering others.  How does the speaker want the audience to react? How does the audience relate to the material? You and your writer want the speech to be perfect, so it’s essential to collaborate on the substance of the address. 

Finally, you should be ready for the writer to be straightforward.  The writer decides how the material should be used and presented.   With some creative writing skills and a clear understanding of the audience’s perspective , these ideas are turned into a speech.

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STST can be viewed as an extension of the traditional machine translation (MT) task: instead of translating text from one language into another, we translate speech from one language into another. STST holds applications in the field of multilingual communication, enabling speakers in different languages to communicate with one another through the medium of speech.

Suppose you want to communicate with another individual across a langauge barrier. Rather than writing the information that you want to convey and then translating it to text in the target language, you can speak it directly and have a STST system convert your spoken speech into the target langauge. The recipient can then respond by speaking back at the STST system, and you can listen to their response. This is a more natural way of communicating compared to text-based machine translation.

In this chapter, we’ll explore a cascaded approach to STST, piecing together the knowledge you’ve acquired in Units 5 and 6 of the course. We’ll use a speech translation (ST) system to transcribe the source speech into text in the target language, then text-to-speech (TTS) to generate speech in the target language from the translated text:

We could also have used a three stage approach, where first we use an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system to transcribe the source speech into text in the same language, then machine translation to translate the transcribed text into the target language, and finally text-to-speech to generate speech in the target language. However, adding more components to the pipeline lends itself to error propagation , where the errors introduced in one system are compounded as they flow through the remaining systems, and also increases latency, since inference has to be conducted for more models.

While this cascaded approach to STST is pretty straightforward, it results in very effective STST systems. The three-stage cascaded system of ASR + MT + TTS was previously used to power many commercial STST products, including Google Translate . It’s also a very data and compute efficient way of developing a STST system, since existing speech recognition and text-to-speech systems can be coupled together to yield a new STST model without any additional training.

In the remainder of this Unit, we’ll focus on creating a STST system that translates speech from any language X to speech in English. The methods covered can be extended to STST systems that translate from any language X to any langauge Y, but we leave this as an extension to the reader and provide pointers where applicable. We further divide up the task of STST into its two constituent components: ST and TTS. We’ll finish by piecing them together to build a Gradio demo to showcase our system.

Speech translation

We’ll use the Whisper model for our speech translation system, since it’s capable of translating from over 96 languages to English. Specifically, we’ll load the Whisper Base checkpoint, which clocks in at 74M parameters. It’s by no means the most performant Whisper model, with the largest Whisper checkpoint being over 20x larger, but since we’re concatenating two auto-regressive systems together (ST + TTS), we want to ensure each model can generate relatively quickly so that we get reasonable inference speed:

Great! To test our STST system, we’ll load an audio sample in a non-English language. Let’s load the first example of the Italian ( it ) split of the VoxPopuli dataset:

To listen to this sample, we can either play it using the dataset viewer on the Hub: facebook/voxpopuli/viewer

Or playback using the ipynb audio feature:

Now let’s define a function that takes this audio input and returns the translated text. You’ll remember that we have to pass the generation key-word argument for the "task" , setting it to "translate" to ensure that Whisper performs speech translation and not speech recognition:

Whisper can also be ‘tricked’ into translating from speech in any language X to any language Y. Simply set the task to "transcribe" and the "language" to your target language in the generation key-word arguments, e.g. for Spanish, one would set:

generate_kwargs={"task": "transcribe", "language": "es"}

Great! Let’s quickly check that we get a sensible result from the model:

Alright! If we compare this to the source text:

We see that the translation more or less lines up (you can double check this using Google Translate), barring a small extra few words at the start of the transcription where the speaker was finishing off their previous sentence.

With that, we’ve completed the first half of our cascaded STST pipeline, putting into practice the skills we gained in Unit 5 when we learnt how to use the Whisper model for speech recognition and translation. If you want a refresher on any of the steps we covered, have a read through the section on Pre-trained models for ASR from Unit 5.

Text-to-speech

The second half of our cascaded STST system involves mapping from English text to English speech. For this, we’ll use the pre-trained SpeechT5 TTS model for English TTS. 🤗 Transformers currently doesn’t have a TTS pipeline , so we’ll have to use the model directly ourselves. This is no biggie, you’re all experts on using the model for inference following Unit 6!

First, let’s load the SpeechT5 processor, model and vocoder from the pre-trained checkpoint:

As with the Whisper model, we’ll place the SpeechT5 model and vocoder on our GPU accelerator device if we have one:

Great! Let’s load up the speaker embeddings:

We can now write a function that takes a text prompt as input, and generates the corresponding speech. We’ll first pre-process the text input using the SpeechT5 processor, tokenizing the text to get our input ids. We’ll then pass the input ids and speaker embeddings to the SpeechT5 model, placing each on the accelerator device if available. Finally, we’ll return the generated speech, bringing it back to the CPU so that we can play it back in our ipynb notebook:

Let’s check it works with a dummy text input:

Sounds good! Now for the exciting part - piecing it all together.

Creating a STST demo

Before we create a Gradio demo to showcase our STST system, let’s first do a quick sanity check to make sure we can concatenate the two models, putting an audio sample in and getting an audio sample out. We’ll do this by concatenating the two functions we defined in the previous two sub-sections, such that we input the source audio and retrieve the translated text, then synthesise the translated text to get the translated speech. Finally, we’ll convert the synthesised speech to an int16 array, which is the output audio file format expected by Gradio. To do this, we first have to normalise the audio array by the dynamic range of the target dtype ( int16 ), and then convert from the default NumPy dtype ( float64 ) to the target dtype ( int16 ):

Let’s check this concatenated function gives the expected result:

Perfect! Now we’ll wrap this up into a nice Gradio demo so that we can record our source speech using a microphone input or file input and playback the system’s prediction:

This will launch a Gradio demo similar to the one running on the Hugging Face Space:

You can duplicate this demo and adapt it to use a different Whisper checkpoint, a different TTS checkpoint, or relax the constraint of outputting English speech and follow the tips provide for translating into a langauge of your choice!

Going forwards

While the cascaded system is a compute and data efficient way of building a STST system, it suffers from the issues of error propagation and additive latency described above. Recent works have explored a direct approach to STST, one that does not predict an intermediate text output and instead maps directly from source speech to target speech. These systems are also capable of retaining the speaking characteristics of the source speaker in the target speech (such a prosody, pitch and intonation). If you’re interested in finding out more about these systems, check-out the resources listed in the section on supplemental reading .

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Translation Tech Is Amazing, Except When It’s Not

Today’s language translation apps are like self-driving cars : incredibly useful, promising, nearing maturity, and almost entirely powered by machines. It's astonishing that the technology even exists.

Even so, machine translation is still clunky at times, if not awkward.

Consider a recent conversation I had with my neighbor, Andre, who immigrated from Russia last year. Speaking little to no English, Andre is navigating the American Dream almost entirely through Google Translate , the most popular speech-to-speech translation app, first launched 10 years ago.

Through his phone, Andrew and I can hold surprisingly deep conversations about where he’s from, how he thinks, how we can help each other, and what he hopes for. But on more than one occasion, Google Translate failed to communicate what Andre was trying to express, which forced us both to shrug and smile through the breakdown.

As computers get smarter, however, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and others hope to fully remove the language barrier Andre and I shared that day. But it’ll take faster neural machine learning for that to happen, which “might be a few years out,” one developer I spoke to admitted.

Not that the wait matters. In fact, many consumers are surprised to learn just how good today’s translation apps already are. For example, this video shows three Microsoft Researchers using the company's live translation software to hold a conversation across multiple languages. The video is seven years old. But when I showed it to some friends, they reacted as if they'd seen the future.

“The technology surrounding translation has come a long way in a very short time,” says Erica Richter, a spokesperson for DeepL , an award-winning machine-translation service that licenses its technology to Zendesk, Coursera, Hitachi, and other businesses. “But this hasn’t happened in parallel with consumer awareness.”

I am a case in point. Although I’ve written about technology for nearly 20 years, I had no idea how deft Google Translate, Apple Translate , Microsoft Translator , and Amazon Alexa were until I started researching this story after my fateful encounter with Andre. The technology still isn’t capable of instant translation like you expect from a live human translator. But the turn-based speech-to-speech, text-to-speech, or photo-to-text translation is incredibly powerful.

And it’s getting better by the year. “Translate is one of the products we built that’s entirely using artificial intelligence,” a Google spokesperson says. “Since launching Google’s Neural Machine in 2016 , we’ve seen the largest improvements in accuracy to translate entire sentences rather than just phrases.”

At the same time, half of the six apps I tried for this story sometimes botch even basic greetings. For instance, when I asked Siri and Microsoft Translator to convert “Olá, tudo bem?” from Portuguese to English, both correctly replied, “Hi, how are you?” Google Translate and Amazon Alexa, on the other hand, returned a more literal and awkward, “Hi, everything is fine?” or “Hi, is everything OK?” Not a total fail. But enough nuance to cause hesitancy or confusion on the part of the listener.

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In other words, translation technology is similar to the impressive but often clumsy writing that ChatGPT churns out. It works. It’s encouraging. It’s a sign of the times. But the result often feels inhuman, if not disorienting.

It’s still good enough to change the world, though. “We process over a billion translations every day on Translate,” says the same Google rep. “And we’ve recently launched more AI-powered features to provide contextual awareness, including the ability to translate images with Lens, which enables you to search what you see with your camera app.”

For its part, Microsoft, which includes a helpful split screen for people facing each other on its highly rated translation app, boasts similar numbers. “We now have thousands of businesses using our technology to do batch, real-time, and document translation across 141 languages, as well as millions of active users taking advantage of live conversation through Microsoft Translator,” says Marco Casalaina, VP of product for Microsoft’s Azure AI.

When it comes to machine translation, there are basically two toolkits for converting tongues: small language models, like the open-source kind Microsoft uses “to be nimble, iterate faster, and scale effectively on important user devices,” and large language models , like the proprietary kind DeepL sells to 100,000 customers.

Some say the latter approach is more accurate and faster, but there are trade-offs: fewer supported languages (only a quarter of the 140 total for small language models) and no offline access, chief among them. But as DeepL’s Richter spins it, “We don’t offer offline translation, since end devices don’t provide the quality we want when working in the cloud.”

What’s next, then, for translation apps? Big Tech is mum for now.

"We don't speculate,” says a tight-lipped publicist from Apple, which first introduced its Siri-powered Translation app in 2020. “Soon, we will expand our web service to give users more options for translating image-based content, regardless of how you search for it,” says Google’s rep. For its part, DeepL is developing significant speech improvements “launching later this year.”

But none of this would even be possible without artificial intelligence, according to every developer I spoke to. “As AI continues to unlock new translation possibilities, we will remove the remaining language barriers,” says Microsoft’s Casalaina. “The tech just needs a few years to evolve,” adds DeepL’s Richter.

As my sometimes clumsy exchanges with Andre prove, today’s translation technology is mostly awesome but still confusing at times. Given that machines have been “speaking” for only 10 to 20 years, however, it’s hard to believe how good they’ve become at understanding and translating what our species has been doing for 200,000 years.

It might not be miraculous, but it’s pretty close.

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