Long-form fields — a bug description, a contact note — carry a dictate button. It uses the browser's own speech recognition, so no audio leaves the device, there is no API key and no per-minute cost. Interim words stream into the field as you speak, and the final text is appended to whatever was already there so speech and typing can be mixed.
Also called: dictation · voice to text · speak it · microphone button · cannot type on site
- 1Tap the microphone; interim results stream into the field so it visibly works
- 2Final results are appended to existing text rather than replacing it
- 3The button hides itself entirely on browsers without speech support
A lot of the people using this run crews, not keyboards, and a fair number will let a problem go unreported rather than risk misspelling something in front of the company that sold them the software. They know exactly what went wrong and can say it in ten seconds. A microphone button on the text fields turns that into typed words on the device itself — nothing is uploaded, and no audio leaves the phone. On a browser that cannot do it the button is not shown at all, because a dead microphone is worse than none.
- Notes and reports go unwritten because typing on a jobsite is impractical
- Self-consciousness about spelling suppresses useful feedback
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