Speech to text Chrome extension
Most text fields on the web have no microphone. tautau fixes that: it adds a small mic button next to every input on every website. Click it (or press Cmd+Shift+V, Alt+Shift+V on Windows), speak, and your words land in the box, punctuated and ready to send. Install takes a minute, and your first 5 dictations need no account at all.
How it works
- Add tautau to Chrome. One click from the Chrome Web Store, then approve the microphone and page permissions.
- Click into any text field. Gmail, Notion, Jira, a contact form, anything. The mic button appears next to it.
- Speak, then stop. The transcript drops into the field, ready to edit or send. A live level meter shows the mic is hearing you while you talk.
What you get
- Coverage everywhere: because the button comes from the extension, it works on any site with a text input, including the obscure internal tools that never get dictation features of their own.
- AI polish: a cleanup pass fixes punctuation and capitalisation and removes filler words, without changing your meaning. On by default; if it ever fails, you get the raw transcript instead.
- Voice commands: say "period", "question mark", or "new paragraph" to punctuate as you speak, and "scratch that" to delete the last sentence when a thought comes out wrong.
- Snippets: say "insert" plus a trigger word and a saved block of text expands into the field. Your email sign-off, address, or standup template, spoken instead of typed.
- Personal dictionary: up to 200 terms (names, jargon, codenames) that teach the transcriber your spellings.
- History with audio replay: signed-in dictations are saved to a private, searchable history, recording included, so a page that eats your submission no longer eats your words.
Under the hood, your audio goes to hosted speech models with automatic failover, so one slow or down provider does not interrupt your sentence. The full tour is in the getting started guide and the docs.
How it compares to built-in voice typing
Credit where it is due: the voice typing built into Google Docs is genuinely good, and inside Google Docs it is hard to beat. The catch is in the name. It works in that one app, and it vanishes the moment you are writing an email in Gmail, a comment in Jira, or a reply in a support portal. Operating system dictation covers more ground but frequently fights with browser focus. tautau's point is coverage: one mic button, every site, the same habit everywhere.
What it costs
Anonymous use gives you 5 dictations, enough to hear the recognition quality on your own voice. A free account raises that to 5 dictations a day, no credit card required. Daily dictators can move to Base at $3 a month for 200 audio minutes or Pro at $9 for 600, and if you already pay for a speech API key, bringing your own skips the quotas entirely. Details and checkout live on the pricing page.
Privacy
Audio is used only to produce your transcript. Anonymous dictations are never retained; signed-in dictations live in your private history, where you can replay or delete them (one at a time, or all of it) whenever you like. Sign-in is by Google or email, payments are handled by Stripe, and we never see card numbers. The full policy is at tautau.xyz/privacy.
Frequently asked questions
Is it free?
Yes, to start. You get 5 dictations with no account at all, and a free account raises that to 5 dictations a day with no credit card. If you dictate more than that, Base is $3 a month for 200 audio minutes and Pro is $9 for 600. Bringing your own speech API key skips the quotas entirely.
Which websites does it work on?
Any website with a text field: Gmail, Google Docs, Notion, Jira, Slack, support portals, contact forms, comment boxes, search bars. The mic button is injected by the extension rather than built into any one site, so it works on pages that have never heard of dictation.
How accurate is it?
Your audio goes to hosted speech models, the same class that powers dedicated transcription products, with automatic failover if one provider is slow or down. They handle accents, filler words, and spoken punctuation like "comma" and "new paragraph" well. Proper nouns are the honest weak spot of every speech model, which is why the personal dictionary exists: add a name once and it comes out spelled your way.
Does it work offline?
No. Dictation needs an internet connection. The extension first tries Chrome’s built-in speech recognition, which itself talks to a speech service, and falls back to tautau’s hosted speech models when that produces nothing. Both paths reach out over the network, so on a plane or a dead connection the mic button will not transcribe.
Is my audio stored?
If you dictate without an account, nothing is kept beyond the request. If you sign in, dictations are saved to a private history (transcript and audio) so you can search and replay them, and you can delete any item or the whole history at any time. Audio is used only to transcribe, never to train models. The privacy policy has the full details.
Dictate your next message instead of typing it
Install takes about a minute, and the free tier gives you 5 dictations a day with a free account, no credit card. If you want to hear the quality first, the live playground on the homepage runs the same transcription in your browser, no install needed.