The great thing about this functionality, it’s free ! All three will let you speak to your computer and in real time convert your spoken word to text. In a blog post on our online store we look at the options available, with video examples, from Google in the form of Voice Typing which is available in Google Docs (part of the Google G Suite, Apple with their OS X Dictation and recently Microsoft with their Dictate plugin for Office. Why? We think that the days of hammering away on a keyboard are numbered, voice is the future for input to computers. Recently though there has been a shift from the tech world giants into the speech recognition niche. Voice recognition or voice-to-text isn’t anything new, it has been around for years made by a company called Nuance in the form of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Here is the post: dictat.es/word-transcribe Microsoft release the Transcribe feature in Word online for Mac and PC, ** This post was originally written in 2017.