# Speech-to-text

Concept · [Building with AI](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ai)

Also called: transcription, transcribe, transcript, dictation, voice to text, STT, speech recognition, AI notetaker, meeting notes app

Software that [turns](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/turn) spoken words into written text. Transcription tools and dictation tools both use it.

**For example:** A meeting app records a call and produces a transcript. The transcript spells a product name wrong, so the [founder](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/founder) corrects it before sharing the notes.

## Connects to (16)

- [Multimodal](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/multimodal): Describes a model that works with more than one type of content, such as text plus images or audio.
- [Inference](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/inference): An AI model producing an answer to a request.
- [Data privacy](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/data-privacy): How a company collects, uses, stores and shares information about people.
- [Model](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/model): The trained system at the center of an AI product.
- [MediaStream Recording API](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/mediastream-recording-api): A browser feature that records audio or video from a microphone, camera or media element so a web app can save or process it.
- [Digital audio workstation](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/digital-audio-workstation): Software for recording, editing and mixing music and other audio.
- [Sentiment analysis](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/sentiment-analysis): Using software to classify the tone of text or speech, such as positive, negative or neutral, often across many customer messages at once.
- [Video conferencing](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/video-conferencing): Meeting with people over live video and audio on a computer or phone.
- [Zoom](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/zoom): A video meeting service for calls, webinars and recorded meetings.
- [Granola](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/granola): An AI notepad for meetings.
- [Gemini Live](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/gemini-live): A mode of the Gemini app for talking with Gemini out loud in real time, and showing it the phone's camera or screen.
- [Observe.AI](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/observe-ai): Software for customer contact centers that uses AI to transcribe and analyze calls and to assist or automate agents.
- [Wispr Flow](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/wispr-flow): A dictation app for computers and phones.
- [Superwhisper](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/superwhisper): A speech-to-text app for computers and phones.
- [MacWhisper](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/macwhisper): A Mac app that transcribes audio and video files and dictation on the computer itself, using open speech models such as OpenAI's Whisper.
- [Hex](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hex-dictation): A free, open-source voice dictation app that turns speech into text on the person's own computer, so audio is not sent to a server.

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