Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-Text

This subcategory brings together tools for turning speech into text — and text back into speech — across everyday productivity, accessibility, education, and professional workflows. If you just need a simple place to dictate notes, Speechnotes and Dictation.io offer browser-based voice typing, with features like real-time editable text, language support, spoken punctuation, uploaded file transcription, captions, translation, summaries, and related apps or extensions depending on the tool. Otter is more meeting-focused, recording conversations from meetings, lectures, interviews, and calls while generating live transcripts, summaries, action items, and searchable history that can connect with common work tools. Rev takes transcription and captioning into more specialized legal and investigative contexts, helping turn recordings, depositions, reports, and body-cam video into searchable transcripts and cited outputs.

The category also includes resources for accessibility and speech support in a broader sense. NaturalReader reads documents, webpages, images, and even physical books aloud using AI voices, serving both personal reading needs and commercial voiceover use. AbleNet focuses on assistive technology for people with disabilities, offering speech devices, switches, access tools, mounts, environmental controls, apps, product support, funding help, and professional training. And for those interested in the technology behind live captioning, Web Captioner is no longer hosted as a live app, but its source code is publicly available for inspection, forking, or adaptation. Together, these listings are useful whether you’re capturing spoken words, making written material easier to hear, supporting communication access, or building speech tools into a larger workflow.