# Speech to text: talk and watch your words appear > To turn speech into text, press Start talking, allow the microphone and speak. > This speech to text tool writes your words on the page as you talk. Pause and > resume as you go, then press Copy or Download TXT. Each recording runs up to 3 > minutes. - Page title: Speech to text online: dictate from your browser | Spytrend - Page description: Free speech to text: talk into your microphone and watch your words appear as text in real time. Copy it or download TXT. No sign-up for your first run. - Tool: https://spytrend.com/speech-to-text - Embeddable version: https://spytrend.com/speech-to-text/embed - All free tools: https://spytrend.com/tools Talk into your microphone and watch your words appear as text in real time. The limits below are the defaults; the recording controls on the page show the current ones. ## Live text of everything you say, ready to copy You speak into the microphone and the words appear as text while you talk. Copy them, or download a TXT file. It's live dictation, straight from your browser tab. It doesn't take audio files or YouTube links, and it doesn't read text aloud. What comes out: - **Live text.** Your words appear in the field as you talk. Pause, resume or stop without losing what is already there. - **Copy.** One click puts the text on the clipboard for your notes, a script or a doc. - **TXT file.** The same text as a plain-text download. There is no SRT: this is dictation, not subtitles. Words can still change mid-sentence; finished sentences stay on the page until you start a new recording or leave the page. Two honest limits: each recording runs up to 3 minutes, and names or brand terms can come out wrong, so check them before you paste the text. ## Online dictation tool: three steps 1. **Press Start talking** — allow the microphone when the browser asks. If it's blocked, the page tells you and asks you to allow it for this site. 2. **Speak naturally** — talk at a normal pace and watch the text appear. Pause for a break, Resume to go on, Stop to end the recording and keep the text. 3. **Copy or download** — press Copy or Download TXT before you leave: the text isn't kept on the page after you close it. The tool listens to the microphone only and never plays anything back. For a recording you already have, use Voice recording to transcript below. ## Free version limits Your first run is free, no sign-up. Leave your email for one more, then create a free account and pay only for what you use. ## Talk through a competitor's ad — and paste your notes into the brief Watching a competitor's video ad or clicking through their landing page, talking is faster than typing. Say what you notice, the hook, the offer and the objection it answers, and it lands as text you can search, quote and paste into a brief. Dictating while the ad plays also keeps your notes accurate: you record what you saw, not what you remember an hour later. One note covers one ad. Research is a different job: dozens of video ads, hooks and offers, where you need to compare, not remember. ## FAQ **How do I convert speech to text?** Press Start talking, allow the microphone and speak. Your words appear as text in real time; press Copy or Download TXT when you're done. **Is this speech to text tool free?** Yes, to try. Your first run is free, no sign-up. Leave your email for one more, then create a free account and pay only for what you use. **How long can one recording be?** Up to 3 minutes. A timer counts down while you talk, and when it runs out the recording stops without losing the text you already have. **Which languages does it recognize?** It detects the language you speak automatically, so just start talking. Clear speech close to the microphone gives the best result. **Can I upload an audio file or a YouTube link?** No. This tool listens to your microphone only. For a recording you already have, use Audio to text or Voice recording to transcript below. **Does it read the text aloud?** No. It turns speech into text and does not play anything back. To hear text read aloud, use Text to speech below. **Do you keep my voice or the transcript?** No. Spytrend doesn't save your recordings or the text. The words stay in this browser tab until you copy them, download them or leave. If you leave your email, we use it for your free runs and to reach you about Spytrend. ## Every competitor video ad, one click from text Spytrend is an ad intelligence platform for Facebook and TikTok advertising: a full five-year archive of ads, AI-classified into 33 business categories, with every advertiser assembled into a single card — all ads, pages, domains and countries in one place. On paid plans, any video ad in it can be transcribed in one click. Two jobs where dictation runs out: - **Writing your own read on a competitor** — you talk your notes on one rival ad into this page. The brief is usually about a whole category, though, and that is forty ads you haven't watched yet. - **Turning a call into a next step** — a supplier or partner call dictated on the spot is searchable the same day. Then check it against the market: what that offer looks like in the ads people are paying to run right now. What the words are attached to in Spytrend: here your text is a note in a browser tab. In Spytrend a transcript opens inside the ad it came from, next to the ad's launch date, how many days it has been running and the countries it runs in. Run time is the signal to trust: an ad that has run for months is one somebody keeps paying for. From one note to a whole market, in three steps: 1. **Search a brand or a domain** — pick the rival you just made notes on, in the country you sell to. 2. **Read instead of watching** — sort by run time and open the ads that have survived longest. On a paid plan, one click turns each into text: forty creatives read in less time than three of them take to watch. 3. **Dictate the conclusion, not the transcript** — use this page for what only you can produce: the read, the angle you are taking, the brief for the team. Why not do it by hand: watching forty ads and dictating notes on each would take a day. Reading their transcripts side by side is much faster, and Spytrend adds what free ad libraries rarely keep: the ads that stopped, with how long each one ran. How to start. Create a free account: it opens the ad library, and paid plans add fresh ads, every filter and one-click transcription. Search a brand or a domain in your country and see which ads have run there longest. What each plan includes is on the pricing page. ### Read the ads a competitor is paying to run You just dictated one note. In Spytrend, on a paid plan, every video ad a competitor runs is one click from text, with run time and countries beside it. - Open Spytrend: https://spytrend.com/register?source=tools&via=tools-app&returnTo=%2Fads%3Fmedia_types%3Dvideo%26from%3Dtools&utm_source=tools&utm_medium=free_tool&utm_campaign=speech-to-text - Pricing: https://spytrend.com/pricing ## Related tools - [Voice recording to transcript](https://spytrend.com/voice-recording-to-transcript): Turn a WhatsApp voice note or a phone memo into text. OPUS, AMR, M4A and 3GP files work as they are. - [Audio to text](https://spytrend.com/audio-to-text): Upload an MP3, M4A or WAV file, or a voice memo, and get the spoken words back as text or an SRT file. - [Text to speech](https://spytrend.com/text-to-speech): Paste a script and hear it spoken. Download the audio to test a hook before you shoot the creative. - [Podcast transcription](https://spytrend.com/podcast-transcription): Paste an Apple Podcasts, RSS or direct audio link and read the whole episode as text or SRT with timestamps. - [Video to text converter](https://spytrend.com/video-to-text-converter): Read what a video ad says. Upload an MP4 or paste a YouTube link and get the transcript as text or SRT. - [YouTube transcript](https://spytrend.com/youtube-transcript): Paste a YouTube link and get the video’s transcript with timestamps. Copy it or download TXT and SRT. --- Recognition happens automatically and may contain errors.