Best AI tools to turn speech into text
Talk instead of typing, or turn recordings into searchable text.
9 tools, ranked by how well reviewers rate them, how much people are talking about them this week, and how easy they are to start with. Filter by price, skill or device →
Sayso
Writing emails, messages and notes by voice, privately, on Mac, Windows or Linux.
Otter.ai
Live transcripts and a searchable archive of your meetings.
Descript
Editing videos or podcasts you already recorded, by editing the text instead of a timeline.
Fireflies.ai
Sales teams that want call recordings linked to their customer list.
audio.cpp
A fast engine that runs voice, speech-to-text and music AI on your own computer. Programmers build apps on it.
audio.cpp-webui
A point-and-click web page for the audio.cpp engine, covering voices, transcription and music, all running on your own computer.
hermes-speech
Adds voices and speech-to-text to the Hermes AI agent.
audio-ai-field-guide
A beginner-to-expert guide to how voice and audio AI works, from transcription to voice assistants.
fish-audio-hermes
Fish Audio's official add-on for the Hermes agent: expressive voices, transcription and voice cloning.