[USE} FREE Online Speech to Text

[GordonShumway]

Hi Everyone. I hope 2024 is your best year to date!

Recently I have been using a FREE online app (website) that has been saving me a huge amount of time.

For those of you that know me, you know I read, watch, and study a lot of material. Things that are of interest to me. You also know I take a lot of notes and file them away into my special Google Drive Account that is for only this purpose. It's my library of stored notes and education.

For many years I used (and still do sometimes) Dragon Dictate to convert Speech into Text. Dragon is pretty good and it has saved me a lot of time... But more and more as some of the big players in the industry have been working on Text to speech with AI voices, and the reverse with Speech to Text becoming more available, I have been looking for a simple way to speed up my note taking and product creation.

I found this handy site that I have now been using for a few months (didn't mention it before as I only like to recommend stuff I have used myself).

Magic Button :

https://www.speechtexter.com/

I use this to rapid write, then cut-n-paste into a GDoc file. I have also used this to knock out my two latest products that are floating around on the Internet.

Go have a look at this and take it out for a spin and see if you also find it as useful as I do.

Cheers,

G.S.

[im7warriorz]

Nice found G.S. thnx
"Speech recognition is not available on your device. The latest version of Google Chrome browser (for desktop) is required."
I use Ff so going to download Chrome and try it

[GordonShumway]

@im7warriorz

Thanks for the info. I did not think about that as I use Chrome for my main browser all the time.

I use Firefox and Edge for some testing or when I want to have multiple GMail/GDoc accounts open at the same time... But most of the time I only have Chrome open.

Cheers,

G.S.

(01-09-2024 01:54 PM)im7warriorz Wrote:  Nice found G.S. thnx
"Speech recognition is not available on your device. The latest version of Google Chrome browser (for desktop) is required."
I use Ff so going to download Chrome and try it

[beefytom]

Thank you Gordon

[maxdev]

Thank you so much

[adrianl]

This is really awesome. Thanks so much! I tried speaking in different countries and achieved very good results.

[GordonShumway]

(01-16-2024 05:50 PM)adrianl Wrote:  This is really awesome. Thanks so much! I tried speaking in different countries and achieved very good results.

Hi adrianl.

I am glad you found it useful. I used this small app every day. Often multiple times, in fact, I am using it right now to write this reply so I don't have to use my fingers on the keyboard.

When I want to take notes on a book I am reading, I just hold the book in my hands while I read my notes into the editor, then just copy and paste it into my Google Docs file. I then do a rapid review and make any small changes that I need to.

This saves me so much time.

Considering that this is a free tool, it's one of my top 10 items that I love to use.

Hopefully you're getting as much value out of it as I am.

Cheers,

G.S.

[StillStanding]

Awesome share Gordon, I can only imagine how much time I'll be saving when it comes down to gathering recipes for all the cookbook shares I've posted.:)

[GordonShumway]

Hi StillStanding

Thanks for the comment. I know you do a bucket load of shares. Over the years I have grabbed an uncounted amount of them, so anything I can offer that helps is on the way.

Finding tools that can speed things up, but are simple to use, is always something I keep my eyes open for.

Speech to text is something I have been using for a long time, but had always paid for it in the past. Nice to see that FREE options are becoming more available and I am sure that over time, they will only get better and better.

Cheers,

G.S.

(01-17-2024 03:50 PM)StillStanding Wrote:  Awesome share Gordon, I can only imagine how much time I'll be saving when it comes down to gathering recipes for all the cookbook shares I've posted.:)

[doctorpeter]

Thank you very much, Gordon. I was using for that tablet. But this is better. Just I have to talk faster, otherwise speechtester finishes my sentence early.