Speechify<\/a> has largely been a tool that helps you listen to articles, PDFs, and documents. The company is now adding voice detection features to its Chrome extension<\/a>, including voice typing and a voice assistant that answers your questions.<\/p>\n In the last 12 months, there has been a proliferation of voice detection tools, thanks to overall quality improvement in speech recognition models. Speechify is hitching its wagon to this train and launching its own dictation tool with support for English. Just like other dictation tools, Speechify\u2019s voice typing corrects errors and removes filler words.<\/p>\n In my short test of just more than a day, I felt there was a lot of room for improvement in Speechify\u2019s tool. For instance, the tools work fine with Gmail and Google Docs, but on sites like WordPress, I have had difficulty in triggering the voice dictation and having it work well. The company said that it is adding optimization for popular sites gradually.<\/p>\n In terms of accuracy, the word error rate was higher than some other tools like Wispr Flow<\/a>, Willow<\/a>, and Monologue<\/a>. Speechify noted that its model learns faster as you use it more, and the error rate will gradually decrease.<\/p>\n The startup is also launching a conversational voice assistant that lives in the sidebar of your browser. You can ask it questions about the website, such as \u201cwhat are the three key ideas?\u201d or \u201cexplain this in simpler terms.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Voice-Typing-Email.jpeg?w=680\")