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Speechnotes provides a secure and highly accurate automatic speech-to-text platform trusted by millions since 2015. Leveraging AI speech recognition engines from Google and Microsoft, it enables users to dictate notes in real time or upload audio and video for quick transcription. Advanced features like speaker diarization, timestamping, captioning, and AI summaries deliver organized transcripts with high privacy and blazing speed. The service is suited for professionals, students, and anyone needing reliable voice typing or transcription, and its inclusion in Microsoft for Startups 2024 highlights its innovation.
How It Works
For Dictation:
- Visit the Speechnotes dictation notepad online
- Click the microphone icon
- Grant browser microphone access (first use only)
- Dictate clearly and steadily
- Finalize and transfer text by pressing 'Enter', saying punctuation, or waiting
For Transcription:
- Go to the Speechnotes Transcribe web page
- Sign in securely with Google
- Purchase credit minutes (unused minutes remain for future use)
- Upload audio/video files or link from Google Drive/YouTube
- Receive accurate transcriptions via email within minutes
Use Cases
Voice Typing & Notes
Dictate text directly into online forms, emails, or documents, ideal for authors, students, and professionals seeking productivity.
Fast, Accurate Transcription
Automatically transcribe interviews, lectures, podcasts, or meetings for instant, searchable records and content repurposing.
Accessible & Secure Medical Dictation
Doctors and healthcare providers can efficiently dictate forms and patient notes, reducing manual input and safeguarding privacy.
Features & Benefits
- AI-Powered Accuracy (up to 95% for good audio)
- Online Dictation Notepad (free, distraction-free, real-time)
- Voice Typing Chrome Extension for dictation across the web
- Comprehensive Transcription Service (audio/video, translation)
- Advanced Transcription Features: speaker diarization, timestamping, captioning (.srt), AI summaries
- High Privacy & Security (no human intervention, encrypted, instant deletion)
- Blazing Fast Performance (real-time dictation, quick transcription)
- Cost-Effective (free/premium dictation, affordable transcription)
- Accessibility & Health Benefits (minimizes RSI risk)
- Seamless Integrations: API, webhooks, Zapier
- Mobile Applications (Android app, TextHear iOS for live captioning)
- Audio/Video Tools (batch conversions, extract audio from video)
Target Audience
- Businesses: Efficient, secure transcription for meetings and documentation
- Top Colleges & Students: Transcribing lectures, notes, interviews
- Journalists & Authors: Dictate articles, stories, research
- Doctors & Healthcare: Medical notes and forms, reduce typing strain
- Transcribers: Faster audio processing
- Individuals with Typing Difficulties: Hands-free, accessible alternative
- High-Volume Typists: Reduce RSI risk
- Developers & Integrators: API and Zapier automation
Pricing
- Dictation - Free:
- £0/month, includes online dictation notepad and Chrome extension (with ads)
- Dictation - Premium:
- £1.9/month (annual, no auto-renew).
- Includes premium notepad, Chrome extension, no ads, commercial use, future features, multi-device access, and exclusive support
- Transcription:
- £0.1/minute (pay-as-you-go)
- Includes speaker diarization, timestamps, .srt captions, API, webhooks & Zapier integration
- All payments are processed securely and unused credit minutes remain account-linked for flexible use
FAQs
How private and secure is Speechnotes?
Speechnotes prioritises privacy: transcriptions are HIPAA compliant, fully encrypted, involve no human review, and recordings are automatically deleted after processing. Dictation notes are stored locally on your device only.
How accurate is Speechnotes' transcription?
Speechnotes uses advanced Google and Microsoft AI engines and achieves up to 95% accuracy in English for high-quality recordings or dictation.
What is Speechnotes' online dictation notepad?
It is a professional, accurate, and free speech-to-text editor, working online in your Chrome browser with no download or registration.
What file types does Speechnotes transcription support?
Speechnotes accepts most audio and video file types, including uploads and direct links from sources like Google Drive and YouTube.
Does Speechnotes offer human transcription services?
No direct human transcription is provided, but a partnership with a UK company offers this with a discount to Speechnotes users.
Is there a limit on how much audio I can transcribe?
Transcription operates on a pay-as-you-go model—buy credit minutes and use as needed with no fixed transcription limit.
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