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How well does your Mac actually hear you?
Pick a passage, read it out loud, and see exactly which words the browser got right — highlighted word-by-word. Useful for testing your mic, your accent, or comparing what free browser dictation can and can't do.
Pick your difficulty
Read this out loud
Most people speak about three times faster than they type. The trick is to stop editing in your head and just say the thing. The cursor doesn't care.
Ready when you are.
This is browser speech. Real dictation does better.
The Web Speech API behind this test is a generic, free model — fine for short prompts, not great with code, numbers, or technical names. Vext runs Parakeet and Whisper locally on Apple Silicon — both built for serious dictation, including a 30,000-word custom dictionary for the words your tools care about.