Tools for people
who talk to their Mac.
A small set of voice and dictation tools we built because we got tired of seeing them locked behind sign-up walls. Everything runs locally in your browser. Use them, share them, keep the audio.
Audio Transcriber
Drop in an audio file. The Whisper model downloads once and runs locally — no upload, no server. Export plain text, SRT, VTT, or JSON. WebGPU-accelerated on modern Macs.
Open toolVoice Typing
A clean, distraction-free dictation editor. Works in 28 languages with voice commands ("comma", "new paragraph"). Auto-saves locally so you never lose your draft.
Open toolTranscript Cleaner
Paste raw, run-on speech — YouTube auto-captions, voice notes, meeting dumps — and get sentences, paragraphs, and capitalization back. Pure JS heuristic, no upload.
Open toolSpeaking Speed Test
Measure your speaking speed in words per minute. Beat the average of 150 WPM and find out why dictation is 3× faster than typing.
Open toolFiller Word Detector
Paste a transcript or speak live. We highlight every filler word, count them, and show your filler ratio. Cleaner speech, sharper writing.
Open toolVoice vs Typing Race
Race the same passage with your fingers and your voice. See your WPM for each. Most users speak 2–3× faster than they type.
Open toolDictation Accuracy Test
Read a passage out loud. We compare what the browser heard against the original — word by word. A quick way to test your mic, accent, and the limits of Apple's built-in dictation.
Open toolAI Subscription Cost Calculator
Tick the voice, transcription, and AI subscriptions you use — Wispr Flow, Otter, Granola, ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Copilot, Ollama Cloud — and watch the yearly total stack up. All prices verified May 2026.
Open toolWhy are these free?
Because the web is full of "free transcription" tools that quietly upload your audio to someone's server. These don't. They run in your tab using the browser's built-in speech recognition — the same kind of capability Vext brings to every app on your Mac, fully offline.
If you find them useful and want the same thing system-wide — in Cursor, Slack, your terminal, anywhere you type — that's exactly what Vext is.
Try Vext free