Persian / Farsi Voice Typing

Persian links words with the ezafe, a short vowel that turns ketab and man into ketab-e man, my book. You pronounce it in nearly every phrase. You do not normally write it.

So dictation faces a small decision on every noun phrase, and the usual answer — leaving it out — is the correct one. The result looks right even though you plainly said something the page does not show. Occasionally a recogniser writes it as a kasra instead. Both are acceptable Persian; what reads badly is a document that does both, so it is worth picking one and making it consistent.

Recognition asks for Iranian Persian. Dari speakers in Afghanistan share the script and the great majority of the vocabulary, so ordinary speech transcribes reasonably well.

Where it slips is the specifically Afghan vocabulary and pronunciation, which tends to come back as the nearest Iranian equivalent. As with Bengali, that makes proofreading a matter of word choice rather than spelling.

Persian writes ک and ی where Arabic writes ك and ي. They look nearly identical and are different Unicode characters, which is why Persian text typed on an Arabic keyboard often cannot be found by a search.

Dictation is more dependable here than manual typing, because it is spelling known Persian words rather than assembling characters. It is one of the quiet advantages of speaking rather than typing this language.

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 Persian speech support will not respond to the button.