Non-native English speakers
Dictation that actually understands your accent
Most dictation software is tuned for one kind of English: American, native, broadcast-standard. If your accent does not match, you spend more time correcting than you saved by speaking. Quiet Dictation's speech engine was trained on a wide range of English accents, and we test it on South African English ourselves. It runs on your own computer, works offline, and a personal dictionary learns the names and spellings you use.
Trained on more than one accent
The speech engine was trained on a wide range of English accents, not just a narrow American default, and we test it on South African English ourselves.
It improves as you use it
The personal dictionary learns from your corrections. Names, places and terms you use every day come out spelled your way, and the app gets better the longer you use it.
More than English
It works best in English, and also supports Afrikaans, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, with automatic language detection.
Private and offline
Recognition runs on your laptop. Your voice is never uploaded, and after a one-time setup it works with no internet connection.
The accent problem in dictation
Speech recognition has a long history of working best for the accents its training data had most of, which usually means white, American, native speakers. Everyone else gets more errors, more corrections, and a tool that feels like it was not built for them. Because it often was not.
Quiet Dictation was built by a South African, and the accent gap is personal. The speech engine we use was trained on a broad range of English accents, and we test on South African English specifically. If you have been burned by dictation software before, the 14-day free trial is the honest test: try it on your own voice, in your own apps, with no credit card.
What it costs
After the 14-day trial it is $5 a month, $39 a year, or a $79 lifetime deal at launch. Because your voice is processed on your own computer rather than on our servers, we can keep the price low.
Common questions
Will it understand my accent?+
The speech engine was trained on a wide range of English accents and we test on South African English. The honest answer is to try it: the 14-day trial is free and needs no credit card.
Which languages does it support?+
It works best in English, and also supports Afrikaans, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, with automatic language detection. More languages are coming.
Does it learn the names I use?+
Yes. The personal dictionary learns from your corrections, and you can add names and terms manually so they are always spelled your way.
Does my voice leave my computer?+
No. Recognition runs on your laptop. Your audio is never uploaded, and it works offline after setup.
Try Quiet Dictation free for 14 days
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