About this site

Dictate Voice to Text is a small set of guides to dictating instead of typing, on the devices and apps most people already have.

Who publishes it

The site is published by the makers of ThinkScribe, a voice recorder, transcription and voice typing app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. We build dictation software, and we wrote down what we know about the built-in options because that is the question people ask first.

How the guides are checked

Every statement about Apple, Microsoft and Google products is taken from that company's own help pages, which are linked under Sources on each guide. Each guide shows the date it was last checked. Where a help page does not answer a question, the guide says so or gives a way to test it yourself.

Menu names and limits change with software updates. If you find something out of date, tell us through the ThinkScribe support page.

How our own app is handled

ThinkScribe appears on some pages, in a box labelled "From the publisher of this site". It is our app, and it is presented as that, not as an independent recommendation. The guides are written to be useful if you never install it: the built-in dictation on your device is free and is the right place to start.

Privacy, cookies and ads

This site sets no cookies, has no ads and uses no analytics scripts, so there is no consent banner. Like any website, our hosting provider processes your IP address to deliver the pages and keeps short-lived server logs; we look only at totals, such as how many requests a page received and which site linked to it. The App Store buttons carry a campaign label that tells us, as a total, how many downloads came from this site. The ThinkScribe privacy policy applies.