AI Audio
Speak it once, get the text you can work with
Dictate notes, capture voice memos and convert recorded audio into clean, punctuated text you can edit immediately.
What is the AI Speech to Text?
AI Speech to Text is the conversion engine: audio in, text out. It handles dictation, voice memos, recorded calls and uploaded audio, returning punctuated, paragraphed text rather than an unbroken stream of words. Accuracy holds up well on clear speech and degrades predictably with background noise, heavy crosstalk and poor microphones.
People often conflate it with transcription, and the distinction is worth keeping. Speech to text is about getting words out of audio quickly and using them somewhere else, usually your own words. AI Transcription is the fuller workflow product: multiple speakers, timestamps, speaker labels, searchable transcripts and export formats for subtitles. If you are dictating a draft, this is the tool. If you are processing a recorded interview, use transcription.
The most underrated use is drafting. Speaking a first draft is roughly three times faster than typing one, and the text that comes out tends to be more direct because you were talking to a person rather than performing on a page.
Capabilities
What you can do with the AI Speech to Text
How it works
Using the AI Speech to Text
- 01
Record or upload
Dictate directly or drop in an existing audio file. A cheap headset microphone improves accuracy more than any setting.
- 02
Choose the language
Set the expected language, or let it detect. Explicit is more reliable when the audio mixes languages.
- 03
Review the punctuated output
Read the text and fix names, technical terms and anything spoken over. These are the predictable error spots.
- 04
Send it onward
Push the text into AI Writer to turn a spoken ramble into a structured piece.
Examples
What good input and output look like
AI Speech to Text
Live demoWriting the prompt1/2You record
dictation-q4-priorities.mp3
AmmarAI writes
Dictated draft
Input
Recording attached. Clean up filler words and keep my paragraph breaks.
Output
Okay, so for next quarter I think the priority is onboarding. Actually, no — retention first, then onboarding, because the churn we saw in March is still not explained.
Voice memo to task list
Input
Memo attached. Turn it into text I can paste into my task list.
Output
Quick memo: call the supplier back about the September order, move the design review to Thursday, and send Priya the pricing sheet.
Key features
What the tool gives you
Automatic punctuation
Output arrives with sentences, capitalisation and paragraph breaks rather than as a raw word stream.
Live dictation
Speak and see the text appear, which suits drafting, note-taking and hands-busy situations.
Multilingual recognition
Handles a wide range of languages and copes reasonably with accented speech.
Direct handoff
Text moves straight into the writing tools instead of through a clipboard round trip.
Who it is for
People who get the most from this
Writers who think out loud
Speaking a draft removes the blank-page problem entirely.
Field and mobile workers
Capture observations by voice when typing is impractical.
People with typing constraints
Produce written work without sustained keyboard use.
Anyone in back-to-back meetings
Record a two-minute debrief after each call instead of trying to remember it later.
Workflows
Practical ways teams use it
Speak the first draft
Talk through the piece for five minutes, convert it to text, then use AI Writer to impose structure on what you actually said.
Post-call debrief
Record a short spoken summary after a customer call, convert it, and paste the result into the CRM while it is still fresh.
Idea capture
Keep a running voice log and convert it weekly into a text backlog you can actually search.
Tips that improve results
- Speak in complete sentences and pause at natural breaks; the punctuation model follows your rhythm.
- Say unusual proper nouns clearly, then fix them once in the text rather than fighting them mid-dictation.
- Record in a quiet space. Noise reduction cannot recover words that were masked.
- Do not self-edit while speaking. Get it all out, then edit in text where editing is cheap.
Mistakes worth avoiding
- Using it for multi-speaker recordings where you actually need speaker labels and timestamps.
- Publishing the raw output; spoken language needs restructuring before it reads well.
- Recording on a laptop microphone across a room and blaming the accuracy.
AI Speech to Text FAQ
How is this different from AI Transcription?
Speech to text converts audio into usable text, typically your own speech, as an input method. Transcription is the full workflow for recordings with several speakers: labels, timestamps, searchable transcripts and subtitle exports.
How accurate is it?
Very good on clear single-speaker audio, noticeably weaker with background noise, crosstalk or very heavy accents in specialist vocabulary. Always read the output before relying on it.
Can it handle accents?
Yes, across a wide range, though accuracy varies. Domain-specific terms are the more common source of errors than accent alone.
Does it work in real time?
Live dictation is supported, and uploaded files are processed as a batch, which is usually faster than real time.
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