SpeedOfTalk vs ChatGPT and Codex dictation
OpenAI's desktop app for ChatGPT and Codex can dictate into other apps too, and if you already use it, it's right there. Here's how the two differ, so you can pick the one that fits.
| SpeedOfTalk | ChatGPT and Codex dictation | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.95 once | Part of the ChatGPT desktop app, which has a free plan and paid plans from $8 a month. OpenAI doesn't say which plans include dictation. source |
| Works in other apps | Yes, any app with a text field | Yes, with a global shortcut to hold or to press once source |
| Where speech is processed | On your Mac | On OpenAI's servers, as far as we can tell: its release notes list connection and quota errors for dictation source, and a hands-on review found no offline mode source |
| Works offline | Yes | No, per the same sources source |
| Account | None | A ChatGPT account source |
| Cleanup and your own words | Three levels of cleanup, a dictionary and spoken snippets | Cleanup, and a dictionary for names, file paths and code symbols source |
| Languages | 25 European languages | Follows your ChatGPT language setting source; a reviewer used it in Chinese source |
| Talk with your agents | No: SpeedOfTalk types what you say | Yes: ChatGPT Voice lets you talk through tasks in Chat, Work and Codex (paid plans) source |
| Platforms | Mac | Mac and Windows; not yet Linux source |
Details from OpenAI's documentation and release notes, OpenAI's public issue tracker for Codex, and a hands-on review on kocpc. Checked October 2026. OpenAI ships changes weekly; check their release notes for the current state.
Choose SpeedOfTalk if…
- Your voice shouldn't leave your Mac: client work, code under NDA, a locked-down network.
- You work offline, or on connections that drop.
- You use Claude Code, Cursor or other tools, and want dictation that doesn't depend on one company's app or plan.
- You'd rather pay once than tie dictation to a subscription.
Choose ChatGPT and Codex dictation if…
- You already have the app open all day. It costs nothing extra to try.
- You want to talk things through with your agents, not just dictate to them.
- You dictate in a language outside Europe, such as Chinese.
- You also work on Windows.