Dictate Anywhere on the Web with the Voice Writer AI Extension

The Dictation tool on Voice Writer AI works great for composing something directly on this site, but a lot of dictation happens elsewhere — a reply in your inbox, a comment on a form, a message in a chat app open in another tab. That’s exactly the gap the Voice Writer AI browser extension is built to close: the same free dictation, with the same voice commands, available in any text field on any website.

What it does

Once installed, the extension puts a toolbar icon in your browser. Click into any text box on any page — a Gmail compose window, a comment field, a form input — click the extension icon, and start dictating. Your words appear directly in that field, punctuated using the same voice commands available on the main Dictation page: “period,” “comma,” “new paragraph,” and the rest.

There’s nothing to configure per website. The extension works the same way everywhere, because it’s not tied to any particular site’s structure — it simply inserts text into whatever field currently has focus.

Why a browser extension instead of just the website

The website’s Dictation tool is intentionally self-contained — it’s a page you compose text on, then copy, download, or export elsewhere. That’s the right tool when you’re drafting something from scratch. But plenty of dictation isn’t drafting from scratch; it’s filling in a field that already belongs to another site or app. The extension handles that case directly, so you’re not copying text back and forth between a dictation tab and the place you actually need it.

Built on the same principles

The extension follows the same approach as the rest of Voice Writer AI: it’s free, requires no account, and processes your voice locally rather than uploading it anywhere. Microphone access is requested once, scoped to the extension itself, rather than asked separately by every website you dictate into — which also means you’re not repeatedly clicking through browser permission prompts as you move between tabs.

If privacy is part of why you’re interested in a dictation extension in the first place, this is worth understanding in more depth — the full explanation of how Voice Writer AI keeps everything on-device applies here too.

Installing it

The extension is available for both Chrome and Edge:

• Add to Chrome
• Add to Edge

Installation takes a few seconds through either store, and there’s no account to set up afterward — click into a text field and start dictating.

A few practical tips

Click into the field first. The extension inserts text wherever your cursor currently is, so make sure you’ve clicked into the actual input before starting to dictate — this is the most common source of “nothing happened” when people first try it.

Allow the microphone prompt once. The first time you dictate, your browser will ask for microphone permission. This is a one-time step; after that, dictation starts immediately each time you use it.

Same commands, same habits. If you’re already comfortable dictating on the main Dictation page, there’s nothing new to learn — the extension behaves identically, just inside whatever site you happen to be on.

Between the website and the extension, the goal is the same either way: get your words down at speaking speed, with predictable punctuation, without typing a single character.

When to use which

If you’re starting something from a blank page — drafting an email, writing up notes, putting together a first pass of something longer — the main Dictation page is still a good place to work, since you get the export options (copy, .txt, PDF) right there once you’re done. The extension shines in the moments the website can’t reach: replying inside your inbox, filling out a form, commenting on a page, or dictating into any app that lives in your browser rather than on this site. Most people end up using both, depending on where the text they’re producing actually needs to live.