Speechtexter is a free voice to text website: talk into it, copy the text out. Searches for it are up sharply this year, which says a lot of people want to stop typing. It’s a fine first step. Here’s the second one.
What Speechtexter gets right
It’s free, it’s instant, and there’s nothing to install. For a paragraph you’re going to paste somewhere once, it does the job.
Why people move on
Every piece of text has to be copied out of the page and pasted where it belongs, so it doesn’t work for the things you type most: messages, replies, emails, prompts. And because it uses the browser’s speech engine, you get a transcript, with the ums and without the punctuation, that you fix before you send.
The Mac alternative
A dictation app that types where your cursor is. Speaky Box sits in the menu bar; hold a key, talk, let go, and clean text lands in whatever app is in front: Slack, Mail, Word, Google Docs, Notes, Claude. Ums and restarts are removed, punctuation is added, and your names come from a Words list you control. The Smart key goes further in AI apps and writes a proper prompt. Free for 2,000 words a week, no card.
Other free routes
Mac dictation is built in and types into any field, transcript-style. Google Docs voice typing works inside Docs in Chrome. Both are free and both make you say the punctuation.
If you dictate a paragraph a month, keep Speechtexter. If you dictate every day, get the text where you’re working.