Speech-to-text tools for dictation across apps, offline transcription, meeting notes and clinical documentation, plus platforms for developers building voice agents.
Pick by where the speech comes from. For dictation, Wispr Flow turns what you say into polished text in email, documents and code editors on macOS and Windows. For meetings, Granola produces summaries and action items rather than a raw transcript. For medicine, Abridge converts doctor-patient conversations into structured clinical notes.
Ask this before uploading anything sensitive. Superwhisper runs on the device and works offline, so recordings stay on your Mac or iPhone. Cloud services process audio on their own servers, which may be fine for a podcast and not for a board meeting or a patient. Check retention settings, whether audio is used for training, and where it is stored.
Record a few minutes of the way you and your colleagues actually speak, including switches between languages, and compare errors on names and numbers. Arabic speakers in particular should test their own dialect, since accuracy on formal speech says little about everyday conversation.
Dasha AI and Vapi are developer platforms that use speech recognition inside phone agents. To translate a transcript, see Translation.