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September 2022

Dictation Software

By Yazdi Tantra, Chartered Accountant
Reading Time 4 mins
Are you tired of typing? Want to improve your speed? So, how about being a lot lazier than you are?

Dictation.io is your first stop. Use the magic of speech recognition to write emails and documents in Google Chrome and almost anywhere else on the computer. Dictation.io accurately transcribes your speech into text in real-time. You can add paragraphs, punctuation marks and even insert smileys using voice commands.

Just head to https://dictation.io/ and click on Launch Dictation. On the next screen, click on Start, allow the use of your microphone and start dictating! So simple. No login, no sharing your email id, no passwords – nothing. Just start dictating.

Once you have finished your document, you can copy and paste it into any software of your choice – Word, Gmail, WhatsApp, just anything. You can even download and save the file you created in plain text (.txt). If you wish to Tweet your text, the site offers a direct link to Twitter, and you may Tweet it directly on your Twitter account. And if you want to print or email it through Outlook, there is a provision to now print the dictated matter or email it from Outlook.

All the standard formatting options like Bold, Italics, underline, alignments, etc., are available as menu items and voice commands. The site guides you to a set of commands that can be used for inserting new paragraphs, selecting and copying text or deleting it, a host