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Speech to Text (Voice Recognition)

by Keller

v0.1.7 Updated Oct 21, 2025 5.29MiB
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★ 3.38
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Description

Speech to Text (Voice Recognition) is an extension that helps you convert your speech to text by using two different speech recognition engines. The 1st engine is the HTML5 native web speech API for audio transcribing. It is active in most modern browsers by default (more info: https://webaudio.github.io/web-speech-api/). The 2nd API is the Whisper AI engine, which uses a new artificial intelligence method to transcribe audio (more info: https://huggingface.co/onnx-community/whisper-base). Please note that when you choose Whisper AI, the app needs to download training data (~280MB) for the AI engine. So please be patient while the app is loading. Both engines can recognize a wide variety of languages and related dialects. To work with this extension, simply open the addon's UI and then press on the big microphone icon to start converting your voice to text. Please note that, when the add-on is first started, it asks for microphone permission. Please accept the permission to start working with the add-on. All the captured text is placed in the top text area within the interface. To copy the text, use the (Ctrl + C) keyboard combination. This add-on has no background activities when it is closed. Note: The Whisper AI engine, once loaded, can work fully offline. Moreover, you can drag and drop an audio file to start transcribing. Please note that this feature is not available for the Web Speech API. If you want to use an audio file for transcribing, please break it into small audio chunks (around a few minutes) as the AI engine runs locally in your browser and is limited in memory and processing power; therefore, it is not capable of handling large audio files. If you found a bug to report, please fill out the bug report form on the add-on's homepage (https://mybrowseraddon.com/speech-to-text.html).
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Reviews (49 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-07
Robin Denning

Wow, this app needs work.

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-04
Arnold Akshay Krishna

Hopeless Extension ever, doesnt capture audio properly , i am using Turboscribe : https://turboscribe.ai/ helps you to summarise using AI, and is so good.

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-08
in_space_

does not have save option.

★☆☆☆☆2024-04-23
Robert T. Yarborough

Doesn't capture all of the information, and stops in the middle of recording. Tried starting over, but it would not record anything...

★☆☆☆☆2024-04-18
Marius Codrin

>> Permission to use the microphone is blocked! >> Please reload the app and try again. but it doesn't ask for permissions like other sites or extensions, and it is not an app, but it says "restart the app" - what app?

★☆☆☆☆2024-04-06
Deeper With Diego

Doesn't allow me to record any voice.

★☆☆☆☆2023-11-27
Hannah Desmond

it spells out 'full stop', 'comma' etc. Not fit fur purpose.

★☆☆☆☆2023-10-08
Yuka Sidharta

Not working

★☆☆☆☆2023-10-04
Angus Davidson

The program deletes what you've said when you clicked on the mic symbol!

★☆☆☆☆2023-08-24
Asad Dastgir

Not working

★☆☆☆☆2023-08-07
David Heller

I'm writing this in 2023 and from reading the older reviews it seems that it used to add punctuation for example if said "period" it looks like, in the past it would actually place period at the end of a sentence .. now it doesn't do that or add paragraphs. The output is just a long string of words with no punctuation which makes the tool completely useless. Good try Google, but no awards for this newer iteration ... If I were Google I'd pull it off and not make it available again until it works. This is an embarrassment, and not good for your (Googles) image. `

★☆☆☆☆2023-08-01
J T

didnt work

★☆☆☆☆2023-05-18
Andrei K

Not working

★☆☆☆☆2023-04-03
Zeta Joe

did not work

★☆☆☆☆2023-02-11
Johanna May

No punctuation.

★☆☆☆☆2023-01-25
Philip Buonomo

Used to be great, now not so much. I've used this plugin with great success for almost a year but recently it started ignoring punctuation like "period" and "comma". This makes the plugin useless for me now. I submitted a bug report but that has been ignored.

★☆☆☆☆2023-01-10
Lorenz Weissel

Inaccurate, clunky, and doesn't detect punctuation. Steaming hot pile of garbage.

★☆☆☆☆2022-11-23
Trevor Green

Extreme low end accuracy. Punctuations are a mess. This save me negative time as I have to go back and fix the entire block of text.

★☆☆☆☆2022-11-02
Lazar A

Garbage. Does not work for me

★☆☆☆☆2022-10-13
azule parakeet

piece of garbage if you cant erase what you type because it keeps putting it back no matter how many times you erase it

★☆☆☆☆2022-09-16
Snacktime Productions

Garbage don't even work

★☆☆☆☆2022-01-22
David

I couldn't make it work at all. I speak fairly standard UK English but it seems to not understand anything. It would be a huge time waster. I would spend more time correcting what it misheard, than it would have taken me to just type it in the first place.

★☆☆☆☆2021-07-26
CN MG

I would give it a zero if I could. what a waste of time

★☆☆☆☆2021-07-25
Huraira Akhtar

Absolutely Pathetic. Cannot fathom any sentence I'm saying. Not the option to edit the text either. Worst experience

★☆☆☆☆2021-07-15
SUSHANT ANUSE

not much useful... previously wrong speeched worrds can not be delated

★☆☆☆☆2021-06-29
Peter Woods

Absolute fail. Didnt work at all. I wish I could give negative stars.

★★☆☆☆2025-04-20
Amaija Niemi

It was okay but it couldn't write periods, commas, and it wouldnt let me delete things either and delayed its self. It also misheard me ALOT and didn't know how to captalize sentences. I need a speech to text for my things on my computer not for its own program.

★★☆☆☆2024-04-20
Mofizul Islam

After installing this extension it's showing. Although I've allowed permission. >> Permission to use the microphone is blocked! >> Please reload the app and try again. Also, this extension has bugs like I want to remove text from the box. But it is not removing.

★★☆☆☆2024-03-04
Kirk Brewer (kirkyeehee)

For what it's worth, it does work, but it lacks punctuation and you cannot dictate directly into any text fields on a web page. It's all done in a pop up window, then you ahve to copy and paste anything over.

★★☆☆☆2024-01-09
John Weiss

Keeps timing out and turning itself off. That's very inconvenient.

★★☆☆☆2023-11-07
Karl Pearson

I give it 2 stars for working at all, after those who say it doesn't work. HOWEVER, why doesn't iot know things like, "new line", "paragraph", "period", "comma", or any other punctuation? That's kind of important, isn't it? Even my phones 'Messaging" app knows to automatically punctuate. It does it wrong half the time, but at least it's trying. This app tries nothing at all. Example using my first sentence above: I give it two stars for working at all comma after those who say it doesn't work period

★★☆☆☆2023-05-18
CatCitizen Citizen

It Works, but sadly, it appears this cannot speech to text into any field in chrome. It opens its own floating text window, which you need to copy paste the results, into other windows. Which basically defeats the purpose of using this in a web Browser. Example wanting to use this in ChatGPT. And this extension appears to simply not be designed to accomplish this..

★★☆☆☆2023-03-17
Arianna

I used to love this and it worked perfectly.. Now it put the word instead of punctuation (periods, commas,etc) I'm sooo frustrated! Change it back!

★★☆☆☆2021-12-01
Reza Orang

Hi Does not recognize sound well There is no sweet Persian language So it's not practical for me Thank You

★★☆☆☆2021-05-01
Negative 100 plays

Didn't understand half of the words I said, extremely infuriating having to repeat the same sentence 20+ more times before it finally understands.

★★☆☆☆2021-03-02
PeaceBy Jesus

Unfortunately it doesn't work on this page or others such as Quora. However it does work and its own text box. 12-23-2025 still does not work, though installed, with permissions. "Flow" works well in any text box I tried but slowed down one browser.

★★★☆☆2025-10-11
Dame

Sometimes it just forgets to transcribe for like 20-30 seconds.

★★★☆☆2025-04-28
A. F. Indo

No offline support, no punctuation support

★★★☆☆2024-07-15
Mykola V

It doesn't work in Brave browser

★★★☆☆2024-02-20
Alan Shepherd

Picks up my voice reasonably well but the lack of punctuation makes it useless.

★★★☆☆2023-10-03
Amanuel Eshetu

no punctuation and the font size if off by 0.5 for some reason

★★★☆☆2023-02-21
PJ From PJBuilt

It worked great until recently period it used to change punctuation prompts to actual punctuations symbols comma but now as you can see here comma it not adds those prompts as actual words period so it makes it awfully difficult to dictate without having to go back and doing some strenuous editing comma which defeats the entire purpose period

★★★☆☆2022-03-07
AbdelHamed Mostafa

Can only type in its own window and doesn't support Arabic language.

★★★☆☆2022-01-29
Andrew Martinello

This extension helped me complete some long form writing assignments in a timely manner. However, it did cause MAJOR levels of frustration by deleting the existing text if I clicked on the microphone symbol to start listening again. More than a dozen times I lost large portions of writing as I was deep in thought, would place the cursor where I wanted to add a line or two only to have the whole thing wiped out because I forgot about this drawback. PLEASE FIX THIS.

★★★☆☆2021-08-14
Oscar Castillo

It doesn't have perfect voice recognition as some people claim. In addition, it stops voice recognition after about three to four minutes.

★★★☆☆2021-05-03
Another Planet’s Hell

It doesn't recognize the back-and-forth nature of dialogue. It just transcribes one long stream of words instead of detecting breaks in speech and dropping down to the next line accordingly.

★★★☆☆2021-02-08
Angel (Ernest)

I liked it because it understood most of the things I was trying to say HOWEVER I hated that when I pressed the microphone to add more of what I was saying It ERASED EVERYTHING and now I have no way of getting it back. This made me furious so maybe you should add a history revise or something like that so someone can restore their work or maybe a feature WHERE IT DOESN'T DO THAT. Thank you for your time

★★★☆☆2020-04-13
sadiq3210

This plugin is better than voice in voice typing plugin. Although, this plugin need some improvement. I noticed the following issues in this plugin: 1- when I move cursor somewhere between the text and try to to type at that place, the text appears at the end of text instead of at the cursor . 2- There is no drag and drop drag and drop functionality in the speech to text window. moreover, when clicking and selecting the text the whole words is not selected. 3- upon repeating the voice it should correct the text.

★★★☆☆2019-12-19
Charles Williams

no editing functions

Permissions (2)

Permissions

contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 0.1.7
Updated Oct 21, 2025
Size 5.29MiB
First Seen Mar 27, 2026