Question Speech-to-Text app to replace Windows Voice Typing in Windows 11 ?

[salilsurendran]

Windows Voice Typing works great but could be better. I press Win + H and it starts transcribing. Often it will place the first word twice and doesn't automatically punctuate even though I have turned it on in settings. In order to punctuate I often have to say the word "full stop" and "question Mark" multiple times to punctuate. It has difficulty understanding the words "full stop" and "question mark".

So I was wondering if there is free software that I could use to replace Windows voice typing? I would also like to be able to use phrases like "delete last word" or "delete the whole line" in order to delete the words that I have misspoken. I've heard that whisper is the best software out there but I don't see anything that converts it into an app that I could install on Windows 11 for easy speech to text conversion.

Also if I use Whisper AI do I have to pay OpenAI?

 

[Ralston18]

My suggestion is to simply download and test as many voice to text apps as you can via "Free trials". (Be careful about that.)

There are likely pros and cons to any given app and you will probably need to make trade-offs.

And yes - if an app is a pay for product or subscription then you will need to pay the manufacturer or provider.