Dictation Speech to Text
You can now add custom words to improve speech recognition! Find the list in setup->manage custom words. Dictation Speech to text allows to dictate, record, translate and transcribe text instead of typing. It uses latest speech to text voice recognition technology and its main purpose is speech to text and translation for text messaging. Never type any text, just dictate and translate using your speech! Nearly every app that can send text messages can be configured to operate with 'Dictation Speech to text'. Dictate uses the builtin speech to text recognition engine. Dictation Speech to text supports more than 40 languages. Dictate offers 3 text zones, indicated by language flags, for which you can configure a different language in the settings. Thus you can switch between different language projects with a singe click. Translation is as easy as pushing the translation button. You can specify the translation target language in the app settings.
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Spokenly
Spokenly is an AI-powered dictation app for Mac, iPhone, Windows, and Linux that turns speech into clean, punctuated text wherever you work. Hold a shortcut, speak naturally, and release to place the transcription directly at the cursor in browsers, email, chat, word processors, IDEs, terminals, and other apps. It supports more than 100 languages, including mixed-language dictation, and offers both local and cloud speech-to-text models. Whisper, Parakeet, and other on-device models can run completely offline, while cloud engines from providers such as OpenAI, Deepgram, Groq, Soniox, and ElevenLabs can be used for higher-accuracy or real-time transcription. Local Only Mode blocks network requests so voice data stays on the device. Modes let users save different transcription models, AI providers, prompts, and output styles for specific tasks, while AI Instructions can remove filler words, fix grammar and punctuation, summarize, rewrite, translate, or reformat dictated text.
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Loqua
Speak, Loqua already knows.
Typing is the bottleneck of your genius. Traditional dictation apps just transcribe your "uhhs" and "umms," leaving you with a wall of garbage text. Enter Loqua.
Loqua is a 100% Mac-native voice AI that doesn't just listen—it understands your context. Whether you are coding in VS Code, replying in Slack, or drafting in Notion, Loqua types perfectly structured text directly at your cursor. Zero context-switching. Zero copy-pasting.
✨ Core Features:
Auto-Structuring Engine: Speak your messy stream of consciousness. Loqua instantly filters filler words and outputs clean, punctuated, and bulleted text.
Voice-Driven Contextual Edits: Highlight any text, press <Fn> + <Space>, and tell Loqua to "Make this a formal email" or "Summarize this." It rewrites in place.
Instant Translation: Highlight and press <Fn> + <Shift> to dictate or translate seamlessly across 15+ languages.
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Streva
Streva is an AI-powered dictation, translation, and text transformation tool for macOS that delivers instant translation anywhere your cursor lives. Speak in any language, and Streva turns your words into natural, formatted writing directly inside the apps you already use, with no copy-paste, no disruption, and no context switching. It is built for people who work across languages, teams, and time zones, helping them stop rewriting what they already said out loud. Whether composing an email, replying on Slack, drafting meeting notes, writing in Notion, summarizing in Claude, messaging in iMessage, updating tasks in Todoist, or polishing text in ChatGPT, Streva adapts to the app and context so the result fits the moment. Its intent-driven translation and transcription understand tone, intent, nuance, jargon, and real-time context, turning rough speech into clear writing, such as transforming a casual spoken reply into a polished professional message.
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