Voice and speech tools

Applications for working with text by voice, including voice-to-text dictation, text-to-speech readers, and text-to-speech engines.

Voice-to-text dictation

Wispr Flow – Voice-to-text AI that turns speech into clear, polished writing in any application, across Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android.
Superwhisper – Voice-to-text that works in any app, online or offline, with custom modes, vocabulary, and 100+ languages. Integrates with coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex.
Aqua Voice – Real-time voice-to-text for Mac and iOS, tuned for prompting and coding with screen context, syntax awareness, and a custom dictionary.
TalkTastic – Voice-to-text dictation for macOS that writes in any app, aiming for higher accuracy than Whisper and ChatGPT.
Typeless – Voice-to-text that turns speech into polished messages, emails, and documents across Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, with auto-formatting, translation, and per-app tones.

Speechify – Text-to-speech and Voice AI assistant that reads documents aloud, transcribes speech to text, and creates podcasts across web, desktop, and mobile.
NaturalReader – AI-powered text-to-speech for personal reading, commercial voiceovers, and education, with content-aware multilingual voices and voice cloning.

Piper – A fast, local neural text-to-speech engine that embeds espeak-ng for phonemization. Runs offline via CLI, web server, Python, or C/C++ APIs, and is used by Home Assistant, NVDA, and others.
Pied – A graphical installer and manager for Piper neural TTS voices, integrating Piper with Speech Dispatcher for use with screen readers such as Orca.