Briefly — Speech ⇄ Text

About

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  Briefly turns your voice into text, and text into voice — right inside Chrome.
  
  Open the side panel, press record, and watch your words appear in seconds. No account, no signup. Three speech-to-text and three text-to-speech providers work with no API key at all.

  🎙 Speech → Text
  • Web Speech API — free, no key, built into Chrome
  • Groq Whisper — free tier, very fast
  • Deepgram — live streaming (words appear as you speak)
  • AssemblyAI Universal v3 — live streaming
  • OpenAI Whisper

  🔊 Text → Speech
  • Web Speech API — free, OS voices, no key
  • StreamElements — free, 20+ voices, no key
  • Google Translate TTS — free, 12 languages, no key
  • ElevenLabs — premium AI voices
  • OpenAI TTS 
  
  ✨ Features
  • Live waveform + pulsing record button
  • Auto-stop on silence (1.5–6 seconds, configurable)
  • Push-to-talk shortcut: ⌘⇧Space (Mac) / Ctrl+Shift+Space (Win/Linux)
  • Translate the last recording to 14 languages — English, Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Mandarin, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Korean, Arabic, Turkish, Dutch
  • Drag-and-drop audio files to transcribe
  • Download recordings and synthesized audio
  • History of your last 50 transcripts and syntheses
  • Light and dark theme toggle
  • Retry-with-backoff on rate-limit / 5xx errors

  🔐 Privacy
  Your API keys are stored only in chrome.storage.local on your device and are sent only to the provider you choose. Nothing goes to a Briefly server — there is no Briefly server.

  👤 Built for writers, students, developers, researchers, language learners, and anyone who wants to dictate, listen, or translate without leaving the browser.
  
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