A dictation button beside the composer streams interim speech into the field as it is spoken and appends final results to whatever is already there, so dictation and typing mix freely. It uses the browser's built-in SpeechRecognition, so audio never leaves the device and there is no per-minute cost. On browsers with no support it hides itself entirely.
Also called: voice to text · dictation · speech to text · I hate typing on my phone
- 1Resolves window.SpeechRecognition / webkitSpeechRecognition and renders nothing if neither exists
- 2Interim transcripts stream into the field so it visibly works
- 3Final chunks are appended with spacing preserved
- 4Sits outside the message-length gate on purpose — the mic matters most when the draft is empty
Plenty of builders will abandon a message rather than risk misspelling something in front of a customer or a supplier — they know exactly what they want to say and can say it in ten seconds, but typing it is the part that stops them. A microphone button dictates the message using the browser's own speech recognition, and nothing is uploaded anywhere. Where the browser cannot do it the button is hidden rather than shown broken, because a dead microphone button is worse than none.
- Replies not sent because typing on site is impractical
- Spelling anxiety stopping people writing at all
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Twenty minutes, your numbers, no slide deck. We’ll build one of your real buildings in front of you and send you the estimate link at the end — yours to keep either way.
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