Dictate in any app · Writing
LibreOffice is free, which is why it runs on machines with no other software budget. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere LibreOffice Writer accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.
Disclosure: Typally is our product. We have tried to describe what LibreOffice Writer already does without talking you out of using it.None. The operating system's own dictation is the usual route.
LibreOffice is used by nonprofits, schools, public bodies and anyone avoiding subscriptions. Those are exactly the organisations with a lot of documents to produce and nobody to produce them.
In practice people use it for: Reports, grant applications, letters, meeting minutes, and policy documents.
You do not configure anything in LibreOffice Writer. The hotkey works wherever your cursor happens to be:
Windows or macOS build, signed in once.
Text goes wherever LibreOffice Writer has focus. One click first saves undoing a paragraph in the wrong box.
Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.
LibreOffice's autocorrect is aggressive by default and will alter dictated text after it lands. Check names and technical terms.
Typally types into Writer like a keyboard, with nothing to install into an office suite chosen precisely for having no subscriptions or dependencies. It suits grant applications especially: long, prose-heavy, deadline-driven writing produced by organisations with nobody to delegate it to.
A volunteer writing a grant application for a small charity dictates the four narrative sections in an evening rather than across three weekends. The application goes in ahead of the deadline for the first time.
Dictate grant application narratives. They are long, they are prose, they are due on a deadline, and they are the single highest-value writing a small nonprofit does.
LibreOffice's autocorrect is aggressive by default and will alter dictated text after it lands. Check names and technical terms.
Nothing built in. It relies on the operating system's dictation or a separate tool.
That depends on the tool. Typally ships for Windows and macOS.
It arrives as plain characters in whatever style the cursor is in, so existing formatting is inherited.
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