How much does a good speech-to-text app cost?

A good speech-to-text app costs anywhere from nothing to about 15 dollars a month. Built-in dictation on phones and computers is free and holds up well for casual use. AI dictation apps with cleanup, custom vocabulary, and cross-app support typically run 5 to 15 dollars monthly with free tiers to start. Dragon sits at the top: hundreds of dollars up front for specialist needs.

Transcription services price differently, by the minute or with monthly minute buckets, which suits recorded audio rather than live dictation.

Price the decision in editing time. If cleanup after free dictation costs you fifteen minutes a day, a ten-dollar app pays for itself in the first week.

Run that math against a speech to text program built for finished text.