Dictate surgical notes hands-free in English
Type with your voice in any app — up to 4× faster than typing. Built for veterinarians who need accurate, hands-free text input across 60+ languages. Works with English and 60+ other languages.
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Say it once, it is written in English
Typing is slow. Speaking is natural. Soniox App turns your voice into finished text as you speak. Get seamless English transcriptions today.
Easier on your body
Reduce strain from extended English typing sessions. Voice Typing lets you write comfortably for longer.
Long-form writing
Write English reports, articles, and documentation at the speed of thought. Voice Typing keeps up with natural speech.
Hands-free input
Keep your hands free while composing English text. Ideal for multitasking or when typing is inconvenient.
Boost productivity
Get more English text written in less time. Voice Typing removes the bottleneck between thinking and having finished text.
Voice input that works everywhere in English
Voice Typing works system-wide across all apps — no integrations or plugins needed. Handles English across varieties like American English and British English.
Works in any text field
Dictate English into any app or text field — emails, documents, messages, search bars, and more.
Choose your writing style
Set the tone for your English text — formal, casual, or anything in between — and Voice Typing adapts the output accordingly.
One tap to dictate
Activate English Voice Typing with a single tap and start speaking. Text appears instantly wherever your cursor is.
Natural speech input
Speak English the way you normally talk. Soniox App turns natural speech into clean, punctuated text.
English at a glance
Key facts about English.
speakers worldwide
countries where spoken
English is spoken in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Guyana, and Malta. Soniox App is trained on real-world English speech from multiple regions and accents.
English transcription accuracy
Soniox App is powered by next-gen speech AI model developed inhouse by Soniox. The table below shows how Soniox AI performs on English transcription compared to 8 other providers.
| Provider | WER (English) | Accuracy |
|---|---|---|
| Soniox#1 | 6.5% | 93.5% |
| AssemblyAI | 9.3% | 90.7% |
| Speechmatics | 9.3% | 90.7% |
| Azure | 9.4% | 90.6% |
| Deepgram | 9.9% | 90.1% |
| OpenAI | 10.5% | 89.5% |
| ElevenLabs | 11.1% | 88.9% |
| AWS | 11.4% | 88.6% |
| 18.2% | 81.8% |
Word error rate (WER) measures how many words a speech-to-text engine gets wrong. Lower is better.
Soniox outperforms AssemblyAI, Speechmatics, Azure, Deepgram, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, AWS, and Google on English transcription accuracy.
Soniox App works with English and 60+ more languages
Soniox App transcribes and translates in English and over 60 other languages with professional-grade accuracy.
Soniox App: The all-in-one AI speech toolkit
Smart Scribe, Translator, and Voice Typing cover three ways people work with speech.
One app. Everything you do with voice in English.
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Transcribe conversations in real time with Soniox.
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Learn everything Soniox can do
Need more details? The Soniox Help Center provides complete documentation for the app, including guides, videos, screenshots, and feature walkthroughs.
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Built for any use case
From clinical documentation to creative workflows, Soniox App is built for the situations where accurate transcription and translation matter most.
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Real-time captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing users in any setting.
Travel translator
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Voice notes
Capture ideas and thoughts hands-free and turn them into searchable text.
Private by default
Soniox never stores your recordings and never uses your audio to train models. Everything is processed securely in real-time, then gone.
English language trivia
Hello - that's how you say hello in English.
History and background
- history
English is the most widely spoken language in the world when including both native and non-native speakers.
- history
The Great Vowel Shift between 1400 and 1700 dramatically changed English pronunciation while spelling stayed largely fixed.
- history
English vocabulary draws from Germanic roots, Norman French, Latin, and Greek, giving it an unusually large lexicon.
Distinctive features
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English has almost no grammatical gender and minimal verb inflection compared to other Indo-European languages.
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English spelling is notoriously irregular due to borrowings from many source languages.
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English uses word order (Subject-Verb-Object) as the primary grammatical mechanism rather than inflection.