How to dictate into any web form with a Chrome extension

You can dictate into any text field on any website with a Chrome extension that adds a small mic button next to every input. Click the button, speak, and your words land in the box. No copy-pasting from a separate dictation app, and no special support from the website itself. This guide walks through the whole setup, from install to your first dictated email.

How do I set it up?

The whole process takes about two minutes. You only do it once, and after that the mic button just appears wherever you go on the web. If you want to hear the recognition quality before installing anything, the playground on the tautau.xyz homepage lets you dictate straight into the browser, no extension required.

• Open the Chrome Web Store and find tautau, then click "Add to Chrome". Approve the microphone and page permissions when prompted; the extension needs the mic to hear you and access to the page to place the button.
• Visit any website with a text field: Gmail, Google Docs, Notion, a contact form, anything.
• Click into the field. A small mic button appears next to it.
• Click the mic and start talking. The button shows it is recording.
• Click again to stop. The transcript drops into the field, ready to edit or send.

Where does it actually work?

Because the mic button is injected by the extension rather than built into any one site, it works on pages that have never heard of dictation. Email clients, project trackers, CRMs, support ticket forms, comment boxes, chat windows, search bars. If it is a normal text input or text area on a page in Chrome, you can dictate into it.

That is the real difference from the built-in voice typing you might have tried. Operating system dictation fights with browser focus and often refuses to fire inside web apps. Site-specific features, like the voice typing in Google Docs, vanish the moment you leave that site. An extension travels with you.

An extension travels with you.

Signing in is optional but worth it. Signed-in dictations are saved to a private history with audio replay, so that perfectly phrased paragraph you dictated into a flaky web form is never lost when the page eats your submission. Sign-in also raises the free tier from a handful of anonymous tries to five dictations every day.

How accurate is it?

tautau sends your audio to hosted speech models (xAI Grok STT, with automatic failover to Groq or OpenAI Whisper if one provider is slow or down). These are the same class of models that power dedicated transcription products, and they handle accents, filler words, and everyday punctuation instructions like "comma" and "new paragraph" well.

A few habits make a visible difference in accuracy:

• Speak at a normal conversational pace. Slowing down unnaturally hurts more than it helps.
• Say punctuation out loud: "comma", "full stop", "question mark", "new line".
• Keep dictations to a thought or two at a time. Short clips transcribe faster and cleaner than five-minute monologues.
• Use a quiet room or a headset mic when you can. The models are good with background noise, but a clear signal is always better.

Is my audio private?

Your audio goes over HTTPS to the transcription API purely to produce a transcript. It is not used to train models and it is not sold. If you use the extension without an account, nothing is kept beyond the request. If you sign in, your dictations are saved to a private history (transcript and audio, in encrypted storage) so you can replay them, and you can delete any item or the whole history at any time. The full details are in the privacy policy on tautau.xyz.

What does it cost?

free tier

5/day

dictations with a free account, no credit card

tautau Base

200 min

for $3 a month

tautau Pro

600 min

for $9 a month

There is a free daily tier: five dictations a day when you sign in, no card required. If you dictate more than that, the Base plan is $3 a month for 200 audio minutes and Pro covers 600 minutes. For most people, the free tier is enough to find out whether voice typing sticks, and it usually does within the first long email you never had to type. Set up takes two minutes, the first dictation takes ten seconds, and after that the keyboard has some real competition.