Grok voice dictation, without the paywall
Grok's app understands your voice — but dictation everywhere else means a subscription app or a browser extension. This page is the third shape: record in the browser, get clean punctuated text, paste it anywhere. Free, three transcriptions a day.
xAI has been pushing voice hard: the Grok app carries on spoken conversations, and the company now ships Grok speech-to-text APIs (branded Grok Voice Transcribe) for developers. But voice inside the Grok app is not the same as dictation — turning your speech into text you can use in notes, documents, or a prompt box anywhere on the web.
For that, the usual options are desktop dictation apps (Wispr Flow, Willow — polished, $8–15/month) or browser extensions that inject speech into text fields. Both are fine if you dictate all day. If you dictate occasionally — a long Grok prompt, an email, a journal entry — a full product is overkill.
This page does the one job dictation needs: speak into your browser's microphone (or upload a recording) and get clean, punctuated text you can copy and paste anywhere — into Grok included. Whisper-grade accuracy in 90+ languages, automatic language detection, nothing to install, no account required.
How to dictate with it
Click the record button on this page and allow microphone access — no install, no sign-up, works on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android browsers.
Talk at your natural pace — prompts, emails, notes. Pause where you want punctuation; the transcript comes back punctuated and paragraphed.
Grab the transcript and paste it into Grok, a doc, an email — anywhere text goes. Editing a dictated prompt is faster than typing it from scratch.
When this beats a dictation app
Typing a three-paragraph prompt is slow; saying it takes twenty seconds. Dictate here, paste into Grok, iterate.
The same recording session that feeds a Grok prompt can feed an email draft or a doc — one transcript, many destinations.
Cooking, commuting, walking the dog — capture the thought as speech and get it back as editable text instead of a voice note you'll never replay.
Questions, answered
Does Grok have a dictation app?
Not as a separate product. The Grok app accepts voice input in its own conversations, and x.ai sells speech-to-text through its Grok Voice Transcribe APIs for developers. For dictation outside the Grok app — into other apps, documents or the clipboard — you need a third-party tool like this page, a browser extension, or a subscription dictation app.
How do I dictate into Grok?
Two ways: use voice mode inside the Grok app, or dictate here (record in the browser, get text in seconds) and paste the transcript into Grok on any platform. The paste route works everywhere — including Grok on the web, where there's no voice input.
Is this Grok dictation alternative really free?
Yes — three transcriptions every day on the free plan, no account and no credit card. Unlimited plans exist if you transcribe more. There's no install, so there's also nothing to uninstall.
How is this different from dictation browser extensions?
Extensions like Voice In type directly into whatever field you're focused on — great for constant use, but they need installing, permissions in every app, and they vary by browser. This page is a web tool: open it, record, copy the text. Different trade-off, same destination.
What languages does it support?
90+ languages with automatic detection — speak in English, Spanish, Mandarin or mix them, and the transcript comes back in the language you spoke. Accuracy is powered by OpenAI's Whisper models, the current benchmark for accented and noisy speech.
What happens to my recordings?
Your audio is processed in memory to generate the transcript and never stored — no copy of your recordings is kept. Dictate anything you'd be comfortable saying out loud, because that's literally what it is.