A voice note transcription app using the JavaScript Web Speech API; the app transcribes recognised speech into text and shows the result in a preview format and a note format, with real-time edit. The preview shows the transcribed speech simultaneously as speech is being recognised, and the note form displays recognised speech which sound complete, as in a complete sentence. separate sounds are played when the speech recognition service is started and stopped, as a cue to users. The app listens in the language provided by the user agent. It allows to download the transcript, which is split into a new line at every period, as a text file.
Using modern Web APIs, the transcript can be copied to the clipboard, shared to system applications, and text files can be imported.
This project was bootstrapped with Vite.
- MS Edge seems to give faster and more accurate results - the results it gives syncs well with the recognised speech; in fact, the transcript is punctuated.
- Ubuntu's Edge crashes on accessing the API.
- Brave browser supports it, so it seems, but always shows a network error - a Brave bug. Here's a link that describes the issue
- Brave on mobile has support for the API, at least on Brave 1.49.129, Chromium 111.0.5563.116 - surprising though.
- Firefox lacks support for the API, currently.
- Some browsers use a server-based recognition engine. The audio is sent to a web service for recognition processing, so it works online only.
- poor results in case of poor network signal, apparently.
Give credits if you'll be using.
It's a very interesting API, I would love to see any feature requests.
Feature you could contribute:
- let's users choose the language they want to record in.
- Anything that's interesting enough.
In the project directory, you can run:
Runs the app in the development mode.
The page will reload when you make changes.
You may also see any lint errors in the console.
Currently, the repo has 3 branches: main, feat, develop.
The main branch contains the MVP.
The feat branch contains a experimental code: getting access to the user's media device, making a live video of it; getting the user's audio device details.
The develop branch contains the latest app features - might seem counter-intuitive a bit, haha.