Korean Voice Typing

Korean spelling is comparatively forgiving — Hangul is phonetic and assembles into syllable blocks in a predictable way, so the letters usually come out right. Spacing is the opposite.

띄어쓰기 is one of the harder parts of written Korean even for native writers: the rules about where particles attach and where compounds split do not line up with where people pause when speaking. A recogniser working from audio has very little to go on. Expect to adjust spacing more often than anything else, and expect the words themselves to be fine.

Korean encodes your relationship to the listener in the verb ending. 해요체 is polite and ordinary, 합니다체 is formal, 반말 is casual. Choosing the wrong one is not a style preference; it is a social error.

Recognition transcribes what it hears and knows nothing about who will read it. Dictate the way you talk to a friend and you get those endings — every word correct, the register wrong for a work email. It is the edit dictation cannot make for you, and it is a rewrite of the endings rather than a correction of mistakes.

Modern Korean is written almost entirely in Hangul, and dictation returns Hangul only. Hanja appear in specialised contexts — legal documents, some academic writing, disambiguating a name — and you will add them by hand if you need them.

For everything else, Hangul-only is not a limitation; it is what Korean looks like.

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 Korean speech support will not respond to the button.