VoiceNote II
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The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.
Chrome app for taking voice notes via the browser's speech recognizer.
Best for free, no-account voice notepad pinned in Chrome. Pricing: free.
What it is
VoiceNote II is a Chrome web app that records voice notes by transcribing in real time via the Web Speech API. Continues to be one of the simpler, free choices for browser dictation.
Watch out for: Web Speech API; Chrome relays to Google.
Install / use
Go to VoiceNote II chromewebstore.google.comWhat people actually do with VoiceNote II-style transcription
The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.
Features
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | Yes |
| Languages supported | 50 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
VoiceNote II vs Whipscribe
| Feature | VoiceNote II | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | Not verified | $6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free |
| Speaker identification | Not verified | Named in the summary, key quotes and chapters |
| Word timestamps | Not verified | Yes |
| Streaming | Not verified | No |
| Languages | 50 | 99 |
| Platforms | Chrome | Web, API, MCP |
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Frequently asked about VoiceNote II
Is VoiceNote II free?
Yes. VoiceNote II is free.
Does VoiceNote II work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
VoiceNote II runs on Chrome. It is not listed for other platforms; check the vendor for anything beyond Chrome.
How do I get started with VoiceNote II?
There is nothing to install — VoiceNote II is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
How many languages does VoiceNote II support?
VoiceNote II lists 50 languages.
What are the limitations of VoiceNote II?
Web Speech API; Chrome relays to Google.
Who is VoiceNote II best for?
Free, no-account voice notepad pinned in Chrome.
Is VoiceNote II open source?
No. VoiceNote II is a proprietary product from Vito Galante. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
Can I use VoiceNote II in the browser?
No — VoiceNote II is a Chrome application, not a web app. You install it rather than sign in to it.
Who makes VoiceNote II?
VoiceNote II is made by Vito Galante.
What kind of tool is VoiceNote II?
In this directory VoiceNote II is filed under browser extension, dictation, notes as a product.
What are the alternatives to VoiceNote II?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/voicenote-ii-alternatives comparing VoiceNote II with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate VoiceNote II-style transcription without running it myself?
Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.
How is Whipscribe different from VoiceNote II?
VoiceNote II is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.
What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of VoiceNote II?
$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.
Where is the VoiceNote II category heading?
Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.
Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.
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