How To Use Offline Dictation Software For Your In-Game Chat On Windows And macOS

You can use the offline speech recognition application SpeechPulse for your in-game chat on Windows and macOS.

For example, you can easily use SpeechPulse when you play your Steam games and want to chat with your team members. SpeechPulse has a push-to-talk feature where you can trigger speech recognition using a customizable hotkey.

  1. Download and install SpeechPulse
  2. Download one of the speech models. Larger speech models have better accuracy, but smaller models run faster.
  3. Select the speech model.
  4. Switch to the push-to-talk mode.
  5. [Optional] Customize the push-to-talk hotkey via "Settings->Options->Hotkeys".
  6. Switch to the Manual spacing mode. This will ensure that SpeechPulse will immediately insert your dictation without using automatic whitespace detection.
  7. Switch to Auto punctuation mode. Automatic punctuation is ideal for in-game chat.
  8. [Optional] Configure SpeechPulse to automatically press the Enter key after inserting the transcribed text. With this setting, you don't need to press the enter key in your in-game chat.
  9. Press the start button to start listening.
  10. Minimize SpeechPulse to the system tray.
  11. Launch your video game and open the in-game chat box.
  12. Place the cursor inside the chat box, press the push-to-talk hotkey, and begin dictating your chat message. Release the push-to-talk hotkey to complete the chat message, and SpeechPulse will transcribe your dictation and insert the message into the in-game chat box.