What's a good free voice to text for RSI?

One that runs in the browser with no install, no account, and no minute cap, so you can rest your hands as much as you need without hitting a paywall. JustWrite fits that: you open the page, talk, and copy the text out. There's nothing to buy and no meter counting your minutes.

Does voice to text help with dyslexia?

For a lot of people, yes. Getting words out by speaking skips the spelling and typing hurdle entirely, and you see your thoughts written correctly, which some people find easier to edit than a blank page. It won't fix everything, and you'll still want to read the transcript over, but it removes the part that stops many people before they start.

Do I need to install special software for hands-free typing?

No. JustWrite runs in a normal browser tab. There's no download, no sign-up, and no extension. After the first use loads the model, the transcription itself works offline. That keeps the setup barrier low, which matters when the whole point is to type less.

Will it work in any text box, like an email or a doc?

Not directly. JustWrite gives you a verbatim transcript inside the page, and you copy that text and paste it wherever you're writing. It doesn't type into other apps for you. So the flow is talk, copy, paste, rather than dictating straight into a field.

Is my voice recording kept private?

Yes. The model runs on your own device in the browser, so the audio is never uploaded to a server. There's no cloud copy to store or leak. The one exception is the optional Polish cleanup step, which needs a connection; plain transcription stays entirely on your machine.

Voice to Text for Accessibility: Free, Private, Hands-Free (RSI, Dyslexia)

If typing hurts, or spelling gets in the way, or your hands just aren't free, you can talk instead and get clean text back. JustWrite is a free voice to text tool that runs in your browser: you record straight into the page or load an audio file, and it hands you a word-for-word copy you can paste anywhere. No install, no account, no minute cap, and the audio never leaves your device.

That last part matters more for accessibility than people admit, so let's go through what actually helps and where the honest limits are.

Why cost and setup are real accessibility barriers

Most "free" dictation tools aren't really free. They cap you at a few minutes, wall the good part behind an account, or upload your audio to a server and bill you later. For someone with RSI who needs to dictate for hours a day, a per-minute meter isn't a minor annoyance, it's the difference between the tool being usable and not.

JustWrite doesn't meter you, because there's no server doing the work. The speech model runs on your own device, so each transcription costs us nothing, which is why there's no cap and no login. You open the page and talk. That's also why setup is light: no software to install, no extension to configure, nothing to sign up for. When the goal is to type less, a tool that makes you fill out a registration form first has already missed the point.

How it helps with RSI and hands-free work

If typing aggravates a wrist, elbow, or shoulder injury, the win is obvious: your hands rest while your voice does the work. You can record for as long as you need in one sitting because there's no time limit, then copy the transcript into whatever you're writing.

Speaking is also just faster than typing for a lot of first-draft work, so you get more done in less strain. Talk out the email, the message, the notes, the paragraph, and clean it up afterward with far less keyboard time.

How it helps with dyslexia

For dyslexia, the barrier is often spelling and the friction of getting words onto the page at all. Saying what you mean skips that. You speak naturally and see it written back correctly, which many people find easier to edit than to produce from scratch.

Whisper, the speech model JustWrite uses, adds punctuation from your natural pauses, so you don't have to say "comma" or "period" out loud. Speak in normal sentences and pause where a sentence ends, and the transcript comes out reasonably formatted. It won't be perfect, and reading it back still matters, but the hardest step, starting, gets a lot easier.

Does it work without installing anything?

Yes. JustWrite runs in a browser tab. There's nothing to download and no account to create. The first time you use it, your browser loads the speech model once; after that, the transcription runs offline, on your own processor. You can disconnect your network and it keeps working, which is a good test of whether a tool is genuinely local or quietly uploading.

One honest note: there's an optional Polish step that tidies up the raw text, and that one needs a connection. The plain transcription is fully on-device. And the tool is built on standard browser recording, which is solid in Chrome and Edge; if you're on something else, test it before you rely on it.

Is my voice kept private?

This is where on-device matters most. Accessibility often means dictating personal things: health notes, private messages, journal entries, work you're not ready to share. Because the model runs on your machine, that audio is never sent anywhere. There's no cloud copy to store, leak, or repurpose. Privacy by architecture beats privacy by promise, since there's no server-side recording to make a promise about in the first place.

How to get the text where you need it

Here's the honest shape of the workflow, so there are no surprises. JustWrite gives you a verbatim transcript inside the page. You copy that text and paste it into your email, your doc, your notes app, wherever you're actually writing.

Open JustWrite in your browser.
Record straight into the page, or load an existing audio file.
Read the word-for-word transcript it returns.
Copy it out and paste it into whatever you're working on.

What it doesn't do is type directly into other apps for you, the way a full system-level dictation setup does. So it's talk, copy, paste, rather than speaking into any field on your screen. For a lot of writing tasks that flow is plenty, and it's worth knowing up front rather than expecting something else.

A few things to set expectations honestly: it gives you plain verbatim text, not labeled speakers, timestamps, or subtitle files. It's word-for-word, not a summary, which is usually what you want when the exact wording matters. And accuracy is strong for clear speech in a quiet room, lower with heavy background noise, same as any tool.

That's the whole idea behind JustWrite: if typing is the thing standing between you and getting your words down, talk it out and get a clean copy back, free and private, because the work happens on your own device.