Are you ready to write your book? Writing a book can be hard work. Have you ever wished there was someone else around to do the grunt work for you?
Well, now there is with today’s technology. dictation apps allow writers to convert their speech into text. This means, as soon as your fingers hit those keys on your computer or smartphone, your words will appear on the screen almost instantly. If you’re thinking of converting all those thoughts floating around inside your head into a book but don’t think you have the time, then this article is for you!
Speak
For those who value minimalism and grace and prefer not to waste their time on typing texts, Speak – Text To Speach offer to see its beautiful interface and try it when you’re on- the- go.
The app uses built-in Speech Recogniser to turn speech into text. Don’t care that it won’t hear something important. No, it works properly and converts your words into texts carefully.
Speaking about other features, there are sliders to adjust the Pitch and Rate of the voice and option to change the accent/language of the voice.
Developers give you the useful tip: If a word doesn’t sound quite right, try spelling it phonetically.
Verbit
Verbit is a transcription application that is not only fast and simple, but also smart, thanks to being AI-powered. It’s great for boosting teamwork among enterprise teams and large institutions such as schools.
Some key features include:
- High accuracy. This is not only because of the use of varied speech models, but also because Verbit uses human transcribers
- Ability to translate regardless of accent
- You can use it in real-time and get results after a session.
- Use it with zoom. Verbit’s Live room works with zoom to provide transcripts and captions for your zoom meetings
- Eliminates background noise
- It can integrate contextual information such as news, into a recording
- For imported recordings, you can monitor the progress and status of your job any time
- Access to reports, including usage reports and billing
- Edit, update and share files. Editing capabilities include adding comments and requesting reviews
- Access to a customer success manager
- You can manage users and permissions to keep your work highly secure
- Turnaround time for transcription can range from around 4 hours to a few days depending on the industry
Pricing and plans: Contact the Verbit team
Temi
Trusted by over 10,000 users, Temi can help you transcribe your audio in as little as $0.25 a minute. Their experts build it specialized in machine learning and speech recognition, so you can imagine what the accuracy would be like.https://www.youtube.com/embed/_oJoAicyZD0?feature=oembed
This tool has speaker identification, custom timestamps, and a simple editing tool to polish the transcripts. Moreover, you can also download their mobile app for IOS and Android devices to record audio and order transcripts on the go.
You can try Temi for free to get one transcript of 45 minutes at no cost and access to all their features and get a taste of what the tool is capable of. I recommend taking advantage of it to get your feet wet before committing to a paid task.
Voice Assist Pro
You might look at this app and ask: “So why should it be better than Siri?”. But in the face, the question here is not how good this voice assistant is, but how well it converts all the speech into text. The app is especially good to use for social networks.
We know that nowadays technology is moving forward, so people sometimes are last to even type a new post on Twitter. Well, there is no one to judge them especially, when there is such a cool app to which you can tell to open Twitter or Facebook and start typing a new post! Besides, the app supports more than 30 global languages.
iTranslate Converse
As you have probably guessed, this app that transcribes your voice to the text is meant to be used for translating purposes. Do you remember those times when you had a regular translator where you had to put each word manually, plus, you didn’t know the right spelling, so the whole process was long and complicated?
Forget about it with iTranslate. This app works by voice input only. It can translate the speech in more than 38 languages. Another advantage here is it’s super simple in usage. Just choose the languages in the setting and then press the button when you’re ready to start! Don’t release the button until you stop speaking.
Moreover, sometimes it is even unnecessary to choose the languages in the settings. The app can recognize it automatically. Overall, iTranslate is extremely convenient to use when you’re traveling, or example, when you need to explain something to a vendor and so on.
TextHelp
TextHelp provides read and write assistance across all platforms including Windows, iOS, Android, Chrome, etc. TextHelp partnered with Google for Education2 and Microsoft gold application development3 for improved efficiency.
It’s an excellent app for people with special needs and learning disabilities. These features include a picture dictionary, highlighting, word suggestions, and a vocab list. Users with visual impairment issues can also scan images and upload documents to hear. It also provides an option to use screen masking to reduce visual stress and screen glare.
The app also offers a free version for teachers, though they can only listen to web pages and documents. Upgrading to Premium unlocks over 80 features. TextHelp offers different subscription models for education and the workplace. For students, the subscription plans are available at a much lower price, making it a great solution for learners.
Store: All platforms. | Costs: Free plan | Review: ★★★★☆
Descript
Descript delivers great accuracy along with flexible collaboration options to have perfect transcription every time. It costs just $2/minute, and you’d have your task delivered within just 24 hours. Like other solutions in this list, Descript keeps your data very private and safe.https://www.youtube.com/embed/IRu-IaadO2M?feature=oembed
Here are some more features of this tool:
- Auto-save and sync progress
- Sync files from your cloud storage
- Import already-done transcription for free to blend with your media
- Ability to add speaker labels, timestamps, and other customizing
You can sign up and get started absolutely free to try the features out.
Narrator’s Voice
Price: Premium version available for $15, you can also earn coins by watching videos in the app to get the premium version for 24 hours without paying a penny. You need 100 coins to get the premium version for a day.
It is one of the best text to speech apps available on the Google Play Store. The app has the ability to convert text into MP3 or MP4 format. The converted files can be shared on various social networking sites.
The app allows your phone to read what you type. In the Narrator’s Voice app, you get a number of language options for converting the text into speech. You can also test various text to speech voices to make the output funny.
The app includes some famous voices like the pink sheep voice and Cortana voice. YouTubers use the app widely to create videos with modulated voices.
TTS Reader
Librera’s TTS Reader app can be an excellent solution for all your text to speech requirements. The app is compatible with BlueTooth headsets, and you can sync your Google Drive with the app to let it access important files and read text aloud for you.
The TTS Reader app also features the night mode and categorizes the available content in different tabs, including Library, Folder, Favorites, Network, Preferences, and Bookmarks.
You can save the audio in the WAV file format and share the web pages to let the app read out loud for you. TTS Reader is one of the most customizable text to speech apps available on the list.
Price: The premium version of TTS Reader Pro is available on the Google Play Store for $3.49
Audext
Audext is amazing web software that can automatically transcribe your audios, which is too super quick and cheap. It costs just $12 per hour of transcription, or you can get it for $5 if you pick up their subscription plan.
It has all the features that an ideal transcription tool must-have, such as:
- Speaker identification
- Various audio format support
- Built-in editor
- Auto-save progress
- Recognition of voices despite background noise
- Timestamps beside each block of text
Lilyspeech
Lilyspeech is a lightweight speech to text tool that works on Google Chrome. It is easy to install, requires no sign up to use and transcribes text with a 99.5% accuracy.
To use LilySpeech, press Ctrl+D and start speaking with your normal voice. Lily will dictate in real-time, use punctuation such as comma and period, and respond to voice commands such as, “next paragraph”.
Once done with dictation and transcription, you can issue further voice instructions to perform various operations such as copy and pasting transcribed text to email.
The use of custom words makes Lilyspeech even more accurate, as you can teach the application to recognize web addresses, industry jargon, names of people, and businesses, among other unusual words.
Price: You can use the free package or buy LilySpeech Premium for $29.99/year
Conclusion
Here are all the voice to text apps I’ve tested most of them work but some are better than others. Some have more features than others. I hope this helps you find the software that works for you.