dictation without internet?

[Wobbles1976]

Is there any application, free or paid, running under Windows 10, that performs dictation (voice-to-text) without requiring an internet connection? Edited December 7, 2023 by ZeroHour

[Brax]

Hi Wobbles,

 

I'm currently setting up Dragon Naturally Speaking with an exam laptop which doesn't have an internet connection. Very good bit of software.

[Wobbles1976]

Dragon seems to be the one that's offline - exam laptops is exactly what im looking into

[Brax]

Dragon seems to be the one that's offline - exam laptops is exactly what im looking into

Yeah most dictation services including word/365 require an internet connection. Dragon is the only one i've seen so far that will work offline.

[chazzy2501]

I was about to boast about just using the dictate feature addin for word but it seems they've finally killed it.

 

 

it was a nice end around the need to use the o365 version of word.

 

oh well dragon it is.

 

EDIT: you could disable edge / chrome and still allow internet access for the dictation feature...but this is moot now.

Edited June 22, 2023 by chazzy2501

[Bankesy]

I'm glad I found this post, also looking into offline dictation

[Brimstone]

The iPad does voice to text without any internet required.....

[Lowly]

Or switch to Mac. I'm SHOCKED, and honestly quite angry to learn you can't use dictation without internet access – Another TERRIBLE accessibility standard on Windows.

[Lowly]

"Yeah most dictation services including word/365 require an internet connection. Dragon is the only one i've seen so far that will work offline."

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offline dictation has been the standard on MacOS for 6 years now...wtf is Microsoft doing.

 

 

 

Edited October 16, 2024 by Lowly
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[Bankesy]

In the end we went with ReadWrite and that worked out well for us but it was just a single student for a limited time so couldn't go wrong really

[psydii]

Apple for the longest while used Nuance technology under the hood, which is why their in-box dictation was so good. Microsoft purchased it (the company) recently so I don't know where that leaves anyone in the long term. With Microsoft's recent history of pulling features and re-releasing them with the AI/CoPilot branding as paid extras I am not at all hopeful.