Speech to text, three ways, in one Windows app
Most speech-to-text software does one of these jobs. Xuula does all three from the same account and the same word allowance: the text you write live, the conversations you need a record of, and the recordings you have been putting off transcribing.
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What does speech to text mean here?
Speech to text is the conversion of spoken audio into written text. Xuula does it in three modes on Windows: live dictation, which types into the app you are using; meeting capture, which records your microphone and the system audio and builds a speaker-separated transcript; and file transcription, which takes an audio or video file you already have.
Live: speak, and the text is already where you needed it
Hold the hotkey and talk. Words appear as they are recognised, the provisional tail settles rather than flickering, and the cleaned-up sentence is typed into whichever Windows field had focus. This is the mode for email, chat, tickets, prompts and documents.
Meetings: both sides of the call, one transcript
Meeting capture takes your microphone and the Windows system audio — the other side of the call — into one synchronised recording with echo suppression, and one recognition session produces a chronological transcript with speakers separated and labelled.
Files: the recording you already have
Upload an audio or video file for speaker-aware transcription — MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4 and WebM among the accepted formats — with an optional translation beside it, and save the result as a text file. This runs as an upload and a result, not as a live stream.
Accuracy is what survives the edit
Raw recognition is only half of it. Local cleanup joins the fragments that thinking pauses create instead of splitting one thought into three, applies punctuation, and spells your terms the way your personal dictionary says they are spelled. What you copy out needs fewer corrections than what a raw transcript gives you.
Where the audio goes
Recognition runs in the cloud, so an internet connection is required and there is no offline mode. Audio streams from your PC to the speech provider without passing through Xuula servers, and recordings, transcripts and notes are kept on your own computer.
Speech to text questions
Voice typing is one use of speech to text: writing live, by voice, into an application. Transcribing a meeting or a recorded file is also speech to text, but the output is a document you read rather than text you are composing.
No. Recognition runs in the cloud and needs an internet connection. Hotkey handling, text insertion, recordings and your local history all run on your PC, but the recognition itself does not.
The file picker accepts common audio and video containers, including MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4 and WebM. The transcript can be saved as a text file, with a translation appended when one was requested.
Accuracy depends on your microphone, the room, the language and how many people are talking at once. We publish no single accuracy percentage, because one number measured on clean audio would not predict your meeting — try it on the free plan and judge it on your own recordings.
Fourteen languages are named in the app — English, Russian, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Polish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Hindi — alongside auto-detect, and the field accepts other standard language codes the speech provider recognises.