Greek Voice Typing

This is the unusual case on this site: for Greek, speaking is in one respect more accurate than typing. Every polysyllabic Greek word carries a tonos, and where it falls is a property of the word, not a choice — άνθρωπος, καλημέρα, ευχαριστώ.

A recogniser that identifies the word correctly spells it correctly, accent included. People typing Greek on a keyboard drop accents constantly, because the accent needs a separate keystroke and the word is legible without it. Dictation removes that whole class of error.

Greek writes ς at the end of a word and σ everywhere else — κόσμος has both. It is a positional rule with no exceptions, and it is one of the most frequent mistakes people make typing Greek manually.

Recognition applies it as part of spelling the word, so it simply does not arise. Another reason dictated Greek often needs less correction than dictated text in most other languages here.

What you get is the monotonic system — the single accent mark used for modern Greek since 1982. The breathings, the circumflex and the multiple accents of polytonic Greek are not produced at any setting.

If you are working on ancient or ecclesiastical text, dictation gives you a clean monotonic draft and the polytonic marks are a manual pass on top. The Greek keyboard is the place to add them.

The microphone is your browser’s. On Chrome and Edge the audio is sent to the browser vendor’s speech service and text comes back; WorldTyping is never in that path and never receives audio. The text stays in your browser, saved locally so a reload does not lose your draft.

That is also why dictation needs an internet connection, and why a browser without Greek speech support will not respond to the button.