Yap Voice Typing
Free voice typing for any text box. Alt+Shift+Y, then talk
About Yap Voice Typing
Yap Voice Typing is a free browser extension for dictating into any text box on the web. Click into a field, press Alt+Shift+Y (or click the Yap icon) and talk. Your words are typed where the cursor is, in email, search, chat, notes and documents.
Whisper speech recognition runs inside your browser, so your voice is never uploaded. No account, no analytics. English or 99 languages, capitals and punctuation added, and it works offline after a one-time model download. Developer: Yap (O-mega Enterprise Inc.).
What Yap Voice Typing does
AINave analysisType text into any web text field by speaking, with speech recognition run locally in the browser.
- Best for
- People who prefer dictation to typingPeople who want private, offline speech-to-text in a browser
- Use it to
- Dictating email messages
- Dictating search queries
- Writing chat messages by voice
- Taking notes by voice
- Drafting documents by voice
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