Free dictation that does not stop listening
Riibon Talk is a page you talk at. It keeps listening for as long as you keep going, turns spoken punctuation into real punctuation, and keeps everything in your browser. No account, no sign-up, nothing sent to us.
Open Riibon TalkThe problem it solves
Every dictation box in every app stops on its own. You pause to think, the recogniser decides you have finished, and the next sentence goes nowhere. So you learn to talk fast and shallow, or you give up and type.
We built this because we brief an AI assistant several times a day and kept losing the thread halfway through explaining it. The fix is not better transcription. It is a page that does not interrupt: when the browser's recogniser ends its session, Talk starts a new one and carries on, so a five-minute train of thought arrives as one piece of text you can read, edit and paste.
Punctuation you can say out loud
Say the name of the mark and you get the mark, not the words. The first letter after a full stop is capitalised for you.
| 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 |
What else it does
- Holds the screen awake. A phone that locks mid-sentence cuts the microphone. Talk asks the browser to keep the screen on while you are dictating and lets go when you stop.
- Keeps more than one document. Start a new one, rename it, switch between them. They all live in this browser.
- Structure without stopping. On a wide screen there are four buttons down the right margin: heading, bold, bullet and paragraph break. Press one while you are still talking and it lands in the text as Markdown, which is what Claude, ChatGPT, Notion and Slack all read.
- Copy or download. One button for the clipboard, one for a Markdown file.
- Hard to lose work. Text is saved as you speak, and clearing a document can be undone.
Where your words go
Your text is written to your browser's local storage and stays there. It is not sent to Riibon, not attached to an account, and not readable by us. Close the tab and it is still there when you come back; clear your site data and it is gone.
The transcription itself is done by the browser, not by us and not by the page. In Chrome that means the audio is sent to Google's speech service to be turned into text, exactly as it is for voice typing anywhere else in Chrome. If that matters for what you are about to say, it matters wherever you dictate, not just here.
What it does not do
- English (UK) only. No other languages yet.
- Chrome and Safari. Firefox ships speech recognition turned off by default, so it will not run there as installed.
- No offline mode. Transcription needs a connection.
- No recording, no speaker labels, no timestamps. It is not a meeting transcription tool and will not pretend to be one.
- One browser on one device. There is no sync, because there is no account.
Questions
Is it free?
Yes. There is no account, no sign-up and no payment. Open the page and press the button.
Why do other dictation tools stop listening after a minute?
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.
How do I add punctuation without touching the keyboard?
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. The next sentence is capitalised for you.
Where is my text stored?
In the browser you are using, and nowhere else. It survives closing the tab and restarting the machine, because it is held in that browser's local storage. It does not follow you to another device or another browser, and clearing your site data deletes it.
Does Riibon see what I say?
No. Nothing you dictate or type reaches a Riibon server. Transcription 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.
Which browsers does it work in?
Chrome and Safari, on desktop and on phones, which is roughly 88% of browsers in use. Firefox ships the speech recognition API turned off by default, so it will not run there without changing a setting. The page needs an HTTPS connection and will ask for microphone permission the first time.
Will my phone screen turn off while I am talking?
It 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.
What languages does it understand?
English (UK) only at the moment. Other languages are not selectable yet.
Can I use it offline?
No. Chrome 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.
Is this a meeting transcription tool?
No. It transcribes one microphone live 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.