DictaFlow
DictaFlow is a hold-to-talk AI dictation app with native apps for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android (Telegram is optional on Android). Hold a shortcut or mouse button, speak, and release. DictaFlow types clean text into the app you are using, in supported text fields such as email, documents, chat, browsers, IDEs and EHRs. On Windows, Typing Mode types character by character, so it works in Citrix, Remote Desktop, VMware Horizon, terminals and fields that block paste. Custom vocabulary handles names, acronyms, code and medical or legal terms, and snippets expand saved text by voice. AI cleanup removes filler and fixes punctuation, and Smart Edit changes selected text by voice. Local Offline dictation works without internet on supported devices after setup. Free plan: 2,000 cloud words per 30 days. Pro: $9/month or $84/year on desktop and web.
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Aqua Voice
Aqua Voice excels at common daily tasks, outperforming all other services. While it benchmarks worse on lecture transcription, this was due to it rephrasing rambling speech into more concise language, rather than incorrect word recognition. Ask Aqua to rephrase, shorten, or clean up your text while maintaining your tone. Automatically removes unnecessary fillers for polished, professional writing.
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AudioPen
AudioPen turns what you say into clear writing. Talk through a messy thought and you get the transcript and, if you want, a rewrite in the style and language you pick: an email, a memo, bullet points or a style of your own. It works two ways. As a notes app, it saves every recording to a library you can export. As voice typing, you talk in any app and the text lands at your cursor, plain or rewritten.
AudioPen has apps for Mac (Apple Silicon), Windows, iPhone and iPad, and Android, plus a web app and a Chrome extension, all on one account. The free plan includes recordings up to 3 minutes and a limited number of voice typing sessions. AudioPen Prime adds unlimited recordings up to 15 minutes, unlimited voice typing and rewrites, audio file uploads, restyling and combining saved notes, and sending notes on to Zapier, Notion and Obsidian. With Prime, ChatGPT and Claude can also search and read your notes.
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Apple Dictation
Apple Dictation is a built-in macOS feature that lets users speak to enter text anywhere they can type. Once Dictation is enabled, it can be started with the Microphone key, a customizable keyboard shortcut, or Start Dictation, then stopped with Escape, the same shortcut, or the Microphone key. On Apple silicon Macs, users can continue typing while they dictate, and Dictation resumes listening after keyboard input stops. Spoken commands can insert emoji, punctuation, new lines, and new paragraphs, while supported languages can automatically add commas, periods, and question marks. Dictation supports text of any length and stops automatically after 30 seconds without detected speech. When macOS is uncertain about a word, it underlines the text so users can choose an alternative or correct it manually. Multiple Dictation languages can be enabled and switched while speaking, and users can select a preferred microphone or let macOS choose automatically.
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