Main requirements: daily search, code comments, chatting, and other tasks that require inputting relatively short paragraphs.
Windows
Voice Typing
Press the Windows logo key + H on the hardware keyboard.
Use voice typing to speak instead of typing on your computer - Microsoft Support
Supports multiple languages. After speaking, do not click the button, it will automatically detect when you stop speaking and complete the recognition. Offline recognition seems to be unavailable.
When starting or ending recognition by clicking the button, there are some loud sound effects that cannot be turned off. GPT even suggests:
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Click on the Start button (the Windows logo) in the lower-left corner of your screen.
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Type "Settings" in the search bar and press Enter to open the Settings app.
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In the Settings window, click on System.
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On the left sidebar, choose Sound.
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Scroll down to the App volume and device preferences section, and click on it.
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Locate the app or feature that is responsible for the voice typing (it could be named "Voice Typing," "Speech-to-text," or similar), and click on the dropdown menu next to it.
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Select Mute from the dropdown menu to disable the sound effect for voice typing.
However, this setting does not actually exist.
iFlytek Input Method
The PC version cannot manually download language packs.
Android
Google Voice Typing
Currently, it only supports offline recognition for English. There are few settings available.
iFlytek Input Method
Offline packages can be downloaded, but storage permission is required. Online recognition can be used without granting storage permission.
iOS
Dictation
Dictate text on iPhone - Official Apple Support
Full offline recognition can be enabled, but the performance is not as good as iFlytek and Windows Voice Typing.
iFlytek Input Method
Every time the button is pressed, it needs to switch to the full-screen iFlytek interface and then switch back for recognition.