It won’t stop listening.
Dictation for people who think out loud. Pause as long as you like, say your punctuation, and walk away with a document.
Start talking. It’s freeRight, the weekly review. Bookings are up on last month, so the first thing I want to know is what changed?
You pause to think.
Every other app hangs up.
Talk waits.
Why it exists
The browser’s speech recogniser ends its session every time you pause, and every other tool treats that as the end of your dictation. Talk starts a new session the instant the old one ends, so nothing you say falls on the floor.
We built it because we brief an AI assistant several times a day and kept losing the thread halfway through explaining it.
Spoken punctuation
| Say | You get | Example |
|---|---|---|
| “full stop” | . | that is the plan full stop |
| “comma” | , | first comma second |
| “question mark” | ? | does that work question mark |
| “exclamation mark” | ! | ship it exclamation mark |
| “colon” | : | three things colon |
| “semicolon” | ; | it works semicolon just slowly |
| “new line” | a line break | new line next point |
| “new paragraph” | a blank line | new paragraph right then |
The letter after a full stop is capitalised for you. A new paragraph is a real one.
The small things
Heading, bold, bullet. Press one mid-sentence and it lands as Markdown, which Claude, ChatGPT, Notion and Slack all read.
Because a phone that locks mid-sentence is rude.
Signed out, your text never reaches us. It lives in your browser and nowhere else.
The page, the recogniser and the translation, both ways.
One press puts Talk in its own window, in your dock or on your home screen. Nothing to update.
Copy all, or download with your headings, bullets and bold intact.
A free account carries the same documents to your phone and laptop, and keeps them if this browser is cleared. Search across all of them.
Price
Dictation costs nothing and stays that way. Talk Pro rewrites what you said, and your original is never touched: the clean version arrives as a new document beside it.
Cancel any time. Cancel within 14 days for a full refund.
Your words. Your browser.
Nobody else’s business.
Signed out, your text is written to your browser’s own storage and reaches no server of ours. Close the tab and it is still there; clear your site data and it is gone.
Two things change that, and only if you choose them. Signing in copies your documents to your account. Running an AI clean-up sends that one document to our AI provider to be rewritten.
The listening is done by your browser. In Chrome the audio goes to Google’s speech service, exactly as it does for voice typing anywhere else in Chrome.
The details
In short: Riibon Talk is a free browser dictation app at riibon.com/talk. It keeps listening through pauses instead of ending the session, accepts spoken punctuation such as “full stop” and “new paragraph”, keeps your text in your own browser, and works in Chrome and Safari in English and Spanish. An optional account syncs documents between devices. The only paid part is AI clean-up, which rewrites or translates a document: 5 free, then Talk Pro at $4.97 a month or $39 a year.
Dictation is free and stays free: no sign-up, no limit on how long you talk, and no limit on how many documents you keep. One part is paid. AI clean-up rewrites what you dictated as tidy prose, an email, a message, meeting notes or an AI prompt, or translates it. That needs a free account, the first 5 are free, and after that Talk Pro is $4.97 a month or $39 a year, with a full refund if you cancel within 14 days.
The browser's speech recogniser ends a session on its own after a pause or a fixed interval, and most pages treat that as the end of dictation. Riibon Talk restarts it and carries on, so a long train of thought is not cut into fragments.
Say the mark. “Full stop”, “comma”, “question mark”, “exclamation mark”, “colon” and “semicolon” land as characters rather than as the words themselves. “New line” and “new paragraph” break the text, and the next sentence is capitalised for you.
Not to dictate. Dictation, documents, spoken punctuation, search, copy and download all work signed out with no limits. An account does two things: it carries your documents to your other devices and keeps them if this browser's data is cleared, and it is what AI clean-up runs against.
In the browser you are using. It survives closing the tab and restarting the machine because it is held in that browser's local storage, and clearing your site data deletes it. If you sign in, it is also saved to your account. If you run an AI clean-up, that one document is sent to our AI provider to be rewritten and comes back as a new document, with your original untouched.
Not unless you sign in or ask for a clean-up. Signed out, nothing you dictate or type reaches a Riibon server. Transcription itself is done by the browser's own speech service, which in Chrome means the audio goes to Google to be turned into text, the same path as voice typing anywhere else in Chrome.
Chrome and Safari, on desktop and on phones, which is roughly 88% of browsers in use. Firefox ships speech recognition turned off by default, so it will not run there without changing a setting. The page needs an HTTPS connection and asks for microphone permission the first time.
English and Spanish. The page itself is in both and the recogniser follows whichever you pick. Clean-up can also translate a document between the two.
No. The browser sends the audio to a speech service to transcribe it, so dictation needs a network connection. Text already written stays in the browser and is readable offline.
Talk asks the browser to hold the screen awake for as long as you are dictating, and releases it when you stop. A phone in Low Power Mode can refuse that request, so on a nearly flat battery the screen may still lock.
Yes. The download button offers a text file, a Markdown file or a Word .docx, and the Word file keeps the headings, bullets and bold you added while dictating. Copy all puts the same text on your clipboard.
No. It writes one live microphone as you speak, with no recording, no speaker labels and no timestamps. It is for thinking out loud and getting the result into a document, not for minuting a call.
Go on.
Say something.
It opens in a second, asks for the microphone once, and listens until you are done.
Start talking. It’s free