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We compiled 10 Reddit discussions about Speech To Text apps from 9 subreddits. Here's what real users recommend, complain about, and debate.

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Need a good speech to text tool

r/slp
Haven't fiddled with Co-pilot, but I assume it also runs off Whisper. MacWhisper looks good, may just get that myself. ... For speech-to-text, a solid option to look into is DocAI Toolbox.

What's the Best Speech-to-Text Model Right Now?

r/LocalLLaMA
For speech-to-text specifically (not just speech recognition), there's Voxtral 3B and Granite Speech 2B on ExecuTorch, with Qwen 2.5 Omni coming soon. ... If you want to use STT rather than fiddle with models all day, my convenience stack looks ...

Best Speech-To-Text App

r/ProductivityApps
The best speech-to-text was the one built into the ChatGPT app which uses Whisper.

Best SPEECH to TEXT software (money is no object)

r/software
Not in this case apparently. ... Thank you all very much for all the great suggestions. I’m going to give Dragon a chance. ... Whisper is modern. Dragon is ancient. ... Software that everyone loves to use. No one hates. ... I built a tool to transcribe your audio / video files and import them into C...

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r/accessibility
It's completely free and over 50 languages, works in any Windows application and is highly accurate. Give it a go. https://speechrecognition.cloud/ ... I’ve been using Speech Recognition Cloud as well. It’s very good in windows.

Any good open source speech to text tools?

r/opensource
Is there any good open source tool that can take an audio file (English speech) and convert it to text? ... Also heard about Whisper, not sure if it’s the best option! ... Depends. If it's about performance then parakeet will eat it at similar wer. ... Yes, Whisper is the best local AI transcri...

Text to speech free alternatives

r/ElevenLabs
There is a rate limit as now but I plan to remove it soon. https://www.reddit.com/r/iosapps/comments/1m9hpto/ai_read_aloud_reader_text_to_speech_with/ ... I was going through this , i did go through some of sites , i found this free tool from dialaxy, they have very minimum option in terms of AI voi...

Best open source api for speech to text transcriptions and alternative for open AI

r/LocalLLaMA
The transcription quality is identical to OpenAI's (it's the same model) but free for reasonable usage. Worth checking if your volume fits their limits. Deepgram Nova-2 also has a free tier and is extremely fast for real-time transcription if ...

Spokenly: what’s the best speech-to-text API and model right now?

r/macapps
Wispr flow has cross platform availability, is simpler, easier and faster for speech to text/diction and in translation. Superwhisper has more customizations and is a more powerful app and can be used offline as well…

What's the best voice-to-text and keyboard app on iOS now?

r/iosapps
I'm currently using it on my iOS device and the local model, Apple Speech Analyzer, and it's honestly one of the most accurate and fastest models. I think I've used Parakeet, which is really good as a local model as well, but it can be quite inaccurate sometimes. And for API keys, I u...

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r/slpr/LocalLLaMAr/ProductivityAppsr/softwarer/accessibilityr/opensourcer/ElevenLabsr/macappsr/iosapps

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