Auphonic vs SpeechTexter

Auphonic is an automated audio post-production service trusted across the podcast world. Upload a recording and its AI applies the polish that used to require an audio engineer: intelligent leveling between speakers, loudness normalization to platform standards (podcast, YouTube, broadcast), noise and hum reduction, and filtering — all automatically.

The magic is in the defaults: Auphonic's algorithms analyze your specific recording and apply appropriate processing, so two voices recorded at different volumes come out balanced, room noise recedes, and output hits −16 LUFS (or whatever target you set) every time. Advanced features include multitrack processing, automatic speech recognition…

SpeechTexter is a free speech-to-text (voice typing) web app that lets you dictate text by speaking into your microphone, transcribing your voice into written text in real time across 60+ languages — useful for writing documents, notes, messages and more without typing. It's a straightforward, no-cost dictation tool that works right in your browser, popular with students, writers, people with typing difficulties, and anyone who thinks faster than they type.

You select your language, click to start, and speak — SpeechTexter transcribes as you go, and you can add custom voice commands for punctuation and formatting (saying "comma" or "new paragraph") to produce cleaner text. It supports man…