Voice input to computer. Voice typing

Hello, dear readers. Today I will tell you in detail about the technical settings and nuances of voice typing on a computer. As you know, the method that I proposed in my free video course “” is mobile and does not require a computer and paid programs. Judging by the numerous letters, it can be judged that I really liked the course. But there are also many questions: How to type texts by voice on a computer? Moreover, from the letters I understand that it is not only the method of typing text by voice on a computer that is interesting, but also the translation of audio into text.

Of course, in comments and letters I answered and recommended the only one, in my opinion, suitable for this online service"Notepad for speech input". And now I am already receiving letters asking me to tell about technical settings computer (microphone and sound card) and how to translate audio into text.

In general, the secret to working with this service is very simple - you must have a good, sensitive microphone. Otherwise, the quality of recognition is very poor. But there is a way out for this case too.

1. Typing via microphone.

2. Typing via virtual audio cable.

Before you start typing by voice using voice notepad, you need to make some browser settings Google Chrome. On at the moment, only in this browser is the ability to type text by voice available. We will need to install two additional extensions.

How to type text by voice in voice notepad

For the first method, additional settings no need to do it. Everything is ready to type text by voice using a voice notepad.

Let's go to home page notepad, display required parameters, and you can dictate the text by voice. The microphone icon is used to enter individual phrases or sentences. To enter text continuously, use the “Enable Recording” button.

Note: The first time you try to type by voice, a warning message will appear at the top of the browser asking you to access your microphone. You need to click on the “Allow” button.

How to fill out any fields and forms with your voice in the Google Chrome browser

Using the previously installed “Voice Text Input” extension, you have access to the function of filling out any fields in the browser. For example, in the registration form or leaving a comment.

In order to fill out a separate field in the form, right-click in this field and select “SpeechPad” in the context-sensitive menu.

Allow access to the microphone and dictate text.

And if you need to dictate a few sentences, for example, a comment or a forum post, you need to follow these steps.

Click the right mouse button next to the input field and select the same “SpeechPad” item in the context-sensitive menu. But this time a new window will open and the recording will start. Dictate the text, and then use the clipboard to transfer the text into the desired form.

Keyboard shortcut for working with the clipboard:

Ctrl+A – select text

Ctrl+C – copy to clipboard

Ctrl+V – paste from clipboard

This is how, without any special settings, if you have access to the Internet, you can enter text by voice on the computer. The quality of recognition will depend on the microphone and your diction.

Now let’s look at the possibility of translating audio into text. This method is called transcription. This service allows you to translate audio into text from audio and video files. Again, the emphasis is on a good microphone.

But in technical specifications I didn’t understand microphones, and I won’t say which ones are good and which ones are not. Let me just say that I had a regular Genius desktop microphone and it suited me. Yesterday I started preparing for this article using this microphone; there were not many errors in voice recognition. During the night, our pet (cat) committed sabotage and chewed through the microphone wire. Don’t think that it’s just a microphone - no, not only that.

And to continue preparing for the article, I used headphones with a microphone. And I must say, it’s just earth and sky. The microphone on the headphones is just a pipe. Either from old age, or perhaps he was so poor, well, it’s just a killer of nerve cells. So, draw your own conclusions.

Well, okay, let's move on to completing the task at hand.

How to Convert Audio to Text

Method No. 1

This method does not require any settings. The principle is as follows. You are reproducing sound file or video, the sound comes through the speakers, and the microphone captures the sound from the speakers. You can also enable recording on your voice recorder or smartphone, and the microphone will capture audio from those devices.

The service provides the ability to capture audio from YouTube videos, video files and audio files. Video and audio files can be located both on the Internet and on your computer.

First, let's look at an example of opening a video from YouTube. To do this, you will need the ID of this video. This ID must be inserted into the “URL of the media file to play” field and click the “Update” button.

Every video on YouTube has this unique ID. You can see him in address bar browser.

Now let's look at an example of opening a file on your computer.

First, specify the file type, audio or video. Then click on the “Select file” button and select a file on your computer. After selecting the file, click the “Open” button.

The next step is to place the microphone next to the speakers of your computer or, say, a voice recorder or smartphone, and turn on the recording.

Method No. 2

This method allows you to exclude the microphone from the audio-to-text conversion chain. The sound will be directly transmitted from the player to the voice notepad. And it doesn’t matter what kind of microphone you have.

But this will require separate program- Virtual Audio Cable. This program creates a virtual audio cable and transmits the audio stream between applications. This program is paid, costs from $25 to $50. But you can use the free version. The free version has a limit on the number of virtual cables. Only 3 cables can be created. And also female voice constantly reminds me that this is free version if you use an audio repeater. But I’ll tell you honestly, you can do without it. But trial version not limited in time. In the video tutorial I will show you the trick.

So, first, download the “Virtual Audio Cable” program, link above.

After you download archive file on your computer, you need to unpack it. To do this, you can use an archiver or simple copying files from the archive to a new folder.

Installing the VAC program

The installation is standard and does not require additional knowledge and skills from you. Just follow the installation wizard.

Now you won’t hear a single sound from your speakers, but all the sound will be transmitted through a virtual audio cable to the voice notepad. Just what we need.

Note: if you still want to hear the sound, then you should go to the folder where you unpacked the program archive and launch the audio repeater. By specifying a virtual cable as the input device, and speakers as the output device.

That's all technical points typing text by voice on a computer using a voice notepad, revealed. If something I said is not clear, write in the comments, I will try to complement it and help with advice. And also, if you can’t write articles for the site yourself for some reason, then you can on the stock exchange. Today, many website owners do this, entrusting the job to professionals.

I wish everyone good luck.

Voice input of text in the Word editor is a very convenient and advanced tool. But not many people know about it. This is not surprising, since the technology was launched relatively recently: on June 27, 2017, news appeared on the official Microsoft website in which they announced a new feature.

By default, this function is not available in Word and no updates will help. For this purpose you need to use third party service.

This add-on allows you to enter text using your voice in more than 20 languages. Moreover, it can translate words online by 60 different languages. And most importantly, this service is completely free.

To enable dictation in your office, you need to follow these steps.

Open the official developers page. Click on the link "Download for Office 32-bit" or on "For Office 64-bit click here".

In order to determine the bit depth of your system and download correct version program, press the hot keys Win + Pause/Break.

Click on the "Save" button.

Run the downloaded file.

Click on the "Next" button.

We agree with license agreement and click on “Next”.

Then click on the “Install” button.

After a short wait, complete the installation by clicking on “Finish”.

Let's launch Word editor and go to the “Dictation” tab.

If you are not going to translate the text, then select Russian in both fields.

Make sure your microphone is connected and working. Right click on the sound icon.

Select "Recording Devices".

Say something into the microphone. The scale should light up. If nothing happens, that's bad. This means the device is turned off or not working.
Make sure this is the default microphone. Otherwise, typing will not be possible.

You can set the default device using context menu(you need to right click on the selected item).

If everything is fine, then click on the “OK” button.

We return to the Word editor. To start typing text using voice commands, you just need to click on the “Start” icon.

Let's try to say something.

Everything works great. Agree, typing text is much more convenient and easier this way. And most importantly, it is very fast. To stop recording, click on the “Stop” button.

Recording is automatically disabled if you long time did not access the Word document (they were in another application) or were silent.

System Requirements

In order to use this add-on and forget what it means to “write by hand,” you must have “ Net Framework 4.5" or later. If you do not have this software or you cannot determine it (the fact of installation on a PC), you will need to perform the following steps.

Go to the official Microsoft website. Once you open this page, you will need to click on the download link.

After this, you will be prompted to install additional updates.
Click on the "Refuse" button.

Run the downloaded file.
Next, two options are possible: a message stating that the Net Framework is already installed or home page installations.
IN in this case we see that the “Continue” button is not active. And at the same time they tell us that everything is fine on this computer.

Otherwise, you will just need to click on the “Continue” button and wait for the installation process to complete.

Conclusion

In this article we told you how to activate speech text input in Microsoft program Word. If something doesn't work out for you, perhaps your operating system does not meet the requirements or you have connected the microphone incorrectly.

Please note that the quality of the text recording depends on how clearly and distinctly you pronounce the words.

Video instructions

If you still cannot type text using voice input, try watching this video. Perhaps additional advice will help you solve your problems.

Greetings, dear readers of the blog site! I have long been planning to prepare a note about programs and online services with which you can translate your voice directly into text. As a storyteller (it seems to me), I’m not bad, but it’s difficult for me to express my thoughts in the form of printed text. So I set out to find a “miracle service” that could convert my speech into text.

The relevance of voice typing today is obvious. It’s not for nothing that Google developers “screwed” Google Chrome into their browser voice search. And based on this open source some programmers and Web masters made different notepads and services for converting speech to text in online mode. For many users and especially users with disabilities These are simply irreplaceable services.

Having tried one of the services that I will give below, perhaps not everyone will get the desired result. Especially those who constantly type texts on a computer, and for whom texts are the main source of income. And many would like to somehow make this difficult work easier. But, if you practice a little, voice to text translation In these online services you can get quite high quality.

To start converting voice to text, you will need a microphone (in laptops it is built-in), preferably a good one internet connection speed and Google Chrome browser no lower than version 25. Unfortunately, the voice typing feature does not work in other browsers. As I already said, the voice recognition to text code from Google developers is open source, and you can use it on your website. So I Russified it a little and installed it on my blog.

Voice input of text using Web Speech API

Launch the voice input page in the Chrome browser. At the bottom of the window, select the language in which you plan to dictate the text. Click on the microphone icon in the top right corner. And in the pop-up line, click the “allow” button for the browser to use the microphone.

Now you can slowly and clearly speak short phrases. After you finish dictating text by voice, you can select it using keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+C copy to the clipboard, and then paste into any editor for processing. If desired, the text can be sent immediately by email.

Perhaps, Web Speech API- the simplest and fairly high-quality way to convert your speech into text. Since there is no need to be distracted by any additional manipulations with the keyboard. Just turn on the microphone and speak the text. In any case, you will have to use some additional text editor for further correction of the dictated text.

Converting speech to text on the Online Dictation website page

A simple “bourgeois” notepad located on the page Dictation, has only three buttons. Turn on the microphone for recording, clear the text input field and export the dictated text to your computer, Google Drive, Dropbox storage or send by email V text format TXT. It's very simple. Try, test and enjoy the results.

Voice typing - online service Talk Typer

This bourgeois online voice recognition notepad has several additional built-in functions. The ability to replace dictated words with other suggested options. Insert punctuation marks. Listen to the dictated text by clicking on the speaker icon. Make a translation into the selected foreign language. You can change the display if you wish appearance and font size by clicking on the gear icon. The only inconvenience: after each spoken phrase, you need to reset it to the bottom of the notepad by clicking on the arrow, and then turn on the microphone again. In general, this is a full-fledged service in which you can transform speech to text and edit it as you wish. The finished text can be printed, tweeted or sent by email.

Voice recognition in VoiceNote

This voice to text recognition service can be install as application in the Chrome browser, or simply bookmark the site which is located. Voisnote is practically no different in functionality from the previous speech recognition notebook service Talk Typer. The same main disadvantage is that after each spoken phrase you have to turn on the microphone again. But you don’t have to move the dictated text, like in Talk Typer. Simple and very user-friendly interface text conversion service. I think that many will like it. Test and draw conclusions.

Many users whose activities involve typing large amounts of text often have a desire to somehow speed up this process. Some are perfecting the touch typing method, some are bringing in people from outside (dictation, parallel typing of different sections of text), and some are using modern innovations that have already become commonplace in our lives. Among the latter, a special place is occupied by voice typing, which allows you to significantly speed up the typing process. In this article I will tell you how to do voice typing online on a computer, what resources will help us with this, and how to take advantage of their functionality.

If you want to type by voice, it is important to take into account that almost all online services that exist today use the Google engine, which is supported only by the browser. Google Chrome. The first part of the selection of services in the past. An attempt to launch these services on browsers with a fundamentally different structure (for example, Mozilla) usually ends in nothing; you will simply be recommended to install Chrome and work with its functionality. And this fully applies to both domestic and foreign online services.

Accordingly, the quality of text perception of various resources is at a comparable level. It is recommended to use high-quality external microphone, install optimal settings microphone on your PC, speak the text loudly and clearly.

As for typing the text itself, the implementation method is extremely simple and will not cause any problems. Usually you go to the appropriate network resource, select the typing language and use the microphone. Give a speech, turn off the microphone and check the received text for errors. Then the text can be saved, copied to text editor and so on.

Let's move on to a direct description of services that allow voice typing online.

Speechpad service writes text into a notepad via microphone

A popular online voice typing service that works with the Chrome browser. To work with it, you need to go to the website https://speechpad.ru/.
Select the voice input language (Russian by default), and decide on a number of related settings.
To get started, you need to click on the “Enable Recording” button and start pronouncing the text as clearly as possible, naming punctuation marks in words (for example, “comma”, “ exclamation mark" and so on).
After finishing verbal typing, check the text for errors, and then move (copy) it where you need it (for example, the standard “Copy” - “Paste” commands will help).

Voice over text service August4u

A service similar to the one described above is august4u.net, which performs online voice typing.
The settings system here is extremely simple - select the typing language (by clicking on the corresponding flag), activate the conversion of phrases into punctuation marks (the corresponding button), click on the microphone icon on the right and dictate the text.
After finishing typing, click on the microphone icon again, thereby stopping typing.
Then you check the text for errors, and if everything is fine, then save the text to your PC or send it by e-mail (the corresponding buttons will help).

Voice typing with Vorabota

Another domestic service Vorabota, also running on Google Chrome. The rules for working with it are similar to previous services - select the input language, click on the microphone icon on the right and speak the text. To finish typing, press the microphone again, check the text for errors and copy where you need it.

Translate audio to text with Dictation.io

English-language resource Dictation.io, with functionality similar to those mentioned above.

To work with it, you need to log in to https://dictation.io/, select the dictation language at the very bottom of the screen, then press the “Start Dictation” button and start speaking the text.
To stop dialing, you must press the mentioned key again.
To clear the text, you need to press the “Clear” key, the “Save” key will save your text, and the “Copy” key will copy the text to the clipboard.

Extensions and add-ons for the Chrome browser

In the Chrome store you can also download extensions (add-ons) that are installed in the Chrome browser and complement its functionality with voice typing. Having installed such an extension (its icon will appear in the browser control panel on the right), you will first need to decide on the input language and other settings (click on the corresponding extension icon in the control panel).

To use the functionality of the application, you need to place the cursor in the place where the test was typed, right-click, select the option in the menu that appears installed extension(for example, Speechpad) and start dictating text by voice online.

Speechpad extension converts speech to text

An extension from the network service I already mentioned - Speechpad for Google Chrome. After installing this extension in the browser, you will be able to perform voice dialing by placing the cursor in the desired location, right-clicking and selecting the “Speechpad” option in the menu that appears.

Voicenote II add-on with voice notepad

Voisnot II – service for Chrome browser, designed for online voice dialing. After installation of this service it will appear in the list of services of this browser, you can go there by typing in the address bar: chrome://apps/ and pressing enter.

After clicking on the corresponding service icon, a new window opens in which you can perform voice typing, for which you need to click on the button with the image of a microphone.

Conclusion

The services I mentioned will allow you to effectively perform voice typing online on your computer. Almost all of them (including extensions from the Google Chrome store) have extremely simple functionality and several basic control options. If you need to quickly type text, but your typing speed is not so high, then you should take a closer look at these services, they will allow you to speed dial text by voice online.

Voice text input on Android is convenient even when typing SMS, and if you need to type large volumes of text per day or solve business issues in parallel with other work responsibilities, then this function will become simply irreplaceable.

The Android OS has a standard function of dictating words by voice, which can be enabled in the settings without downloading additional applications. The system will automatically add a microphone icon to electronic keyboard, and you can use it whenever you need.

If you no longer need the enabled input and want to disable it, in the same menu select the “Disable” button or uncheck the corresponding item.

How to use voice input

We have already figured out how to enable this function, now we need to understand how to use it. It will be available in almost all menus and applications in which you can use an electronic keyboard.

To start dictating text, click on text screen or to that part of the text that has already been entered. A standard electronic keyboard will appear.
Click on the microphone icon on the main screen, or go to the character layout if you moved the microphone key there during setup.
A menu for recording your voice and the inscription: “Speak” will be displayed on the screen. Dictate required text into your smartphone's microphone and it automatically converts your voice to text.

Punctuation marks must be pronounced with the words: “Question mark”, “Comma”, “Period”. Try to speak more clearly, otherwise the program may misunderstand your words and, accordingly, convert them into similar-sounding words.

What settings are available for Android voice recognition?

You can configure standard voice input on Android in the “Language and input” menu, which can be accessed through “Settings”, or by clicking on the settings “gear” directly in the menu that appears after pressing the microphone (usually the settings button is located to the left of the word "Speak")

Setting up speech recognition. Here you can do the following:

Select language. Recognition is also available in offline mode, but by default you will only have Russian language installed (or Russian + English). For other languages, the function will work either only when , or when you download required languages. Download the required ones language packs You can go to the language and input settings menu by clicking on “Offline speech recognition”.
Set up “OK Google” recognition. After setting this item, you will be able to use the manager search engine when open Google system, just saying: “Okay Google.” And then you need to say what you need to find in the search engine.
Enable voice control from a wired headset or Bluetooth devices.
Set up recognition of obscene words. The program automatically turns on the “Hide recognized obscene words” option.
Enable or disable audio results in standard mode or in connected headset mode.