Voicy: Don't type your texts on the keyboard anymore, dictate them

Last updated on 12 May 2026

Between the comments to write for each student, the lesson sheets to fignoler, the files to prepare and the reports to do … frankly, our days often look like a typing marathon. What if we could talk to the computer and let it type on the keyboard for us? This is what the Voicy service offers. I tested it, it's pretty bluffing.

This tool turns your voice into text with an accuracy announced at 99 % through AI. Whether you're on Mac, Windows, or directly in Chrome, you can dictate on sites and in your apps. Basically, your ideas go almost three times faster than your fingers. And believe me, spending a lot of time on the keyboard in front of the screen is life-changing.

Voice dictation to write faster than your shadow

We speak naturally between 150 and 200 words per minute, but we do not typing 40 to 60 words on average. In other words, your ideas are way too fast for your fingers. Voice dictation therefore becomes a fairly simple way to catch up.

Beyond the simple saving of time, you preserve your wrists and eyes from screen fatigue. Better yet, voice dictation allows you to work in mobility – be it on public transport, or to take advantage of the small moments between classes to get ahead.

Technology has really advanced. Thanks to theartificial intelligence, the punctuation fits on its own, the tool understands the context, and French is treated with enough finesse so that you can use it on a daily basis without fighting. Errors are rare and proofreading is quick. Audio transcription obtained is of high quality.

Daily uses? Infinite: transform your audio corrections into text, prepare your sequences out loud, create accessible media for students with special needs, dictate your instructions while you build your course, or quickly send emails to parents and colleagues or messages about WhatsApp … groups

Voicy in practice

There are three ways to use it: Mac application, Windows application, or Chrome extension.

The Chrome extension: the option that changes everything

It is she who makes the difference in part. TheVoicy extension, once installed, it integrates with your browser and works on most sites. Gmail, Outlook, Google Docs, Word online, Pronote, Classroom, Padlet … everything goes there.

Once installed, it adds voice dictation functionality to every text field on the internet and allows you to write with your voice anywhere. A very small icon appears as soon as you activate a text field. One click allows you to launch the microphone to allow you to dictate your text. Another click closes the record. The text is written on the screen with a latency close to zero.

No need to juggle a thousand windows or copy and paste your texts. You place the cursor, activate Voicy, and you speak: the text is written on its own.

Mac and Windows applications

These apps are perfect if you want write a text long without distraction. Some functions can even work offline, convenient if your connection decides to strike. Once installed you will have to set a keyboard shortcut to remember that will allow you to launch Voicy on the fly.

Precision and languages

Voicy Announces 99 % precision. More than 50 languages are supported, making it ideal for language courses or working in a multilingual context. French handles chords, homophones and idioms well. You can switch from one language to another quickly.

Install Voicy: no wizard

1. Go to the Chrome Web Store, search for "Voice to Text" and add it.
2. Create your account with your pro email.
3. Allow access to the mic when requested by the browser.
4. Choose a simple keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows or Cmd+Shift+Space on Mac).

Test in Gmail or Google Docs. Talk, watch the text appear. For best results: a quiet place, a headset if necessary, and talk at your own pace.

Start small: Quick emails, personal notes, then feedback, and finally longer content. After three to four weeks, dictating becomes as natural as typing.

Computer applications are accessible from the service's website.

 

Practical examples in class

• Student Feedback : 2 minutes dictation = at least double the keyboard input. When you multiply by the number of students, you quickly realize the time saved. And your comments sound more natural, more human.
• Sequence preparation : during your journeys, dictate your objectives, progress and exercises; on arrival, everything is ready to form.
• Quick emails : in two minutes, informed parents and you breathe before the next class.
• Accessible media : dictate your courses for the dyslexic students or in a situation of disability and get a faithful text about you.

Strengths and limitations

Forces : huge time saving, universal extension, 99 accuracy %, support for 50 languages, simple interface.

Limits : ambient noise = less precise transcription, it is necessary to adapt mentally to dictate rather than write (for curvy texts it is not complicated), technical vocabulary to correct, mathematical formulas or schemas impossible to dictate.

It will not be necessary to forget in any case to reread your text to finalize the writing. That said, this proofreading work is not specific to voice dictation. Large internet companies, Microsoft, Google and other Apples already offer speech synthesis, but a tool like Voicy still far exceeds them in quality and speed.

Try Voicy and you'll have a hard time without it.

Voicy offers a free version perfectly functional but limited to 30 minutes. Enough to make you aware. If you decide to adopt it, it will be worth just over €5 per month for unlimited use. The time saved may justify the expense, it's up to you to see. Will you tell me?

In any case, it is a tool that seems particularly well adapted to the needs of teachers.

Test Voicy and find out if it can lighten your time in front of the computer.