When to pick the other — Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
- You are a developer embedding recognition in your product
- You need rare languages or dialects
- You process tens of thousands of hours per month
Comparison
AuroraWhisp vs Google Cloud STT
TL;DR
Google STT is an API for developers, not an app for typing in Word. Direct comparison is unfair, but many google it looking for voice typing. If you are not a developer — you need us, not Google.
Point by point
| Feature | AuroraWhisp | Google Cloud Speech-to-Text |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Ready-to-use voice typing app | API for developers |
| Price | Free / $19.90 once | $0.006 / 15 seconds |
| Where it runs | On your computer | Google Cloud |
| Setup | Download .exe — works | Sign up, API key, card payment |
| Integration with Word/Slack/IDE | Yes, via hotkey | You write your own client |
| Languages | 15 + auto-detect | 125+ |
When to pick AuroraWhisp
- You are a regular user, you need to dictate in Word/Slack
- Voice should not leak to Google
- You do not want to deal with API keys and quotas
Direct admission
If you are a developer who landed here looking for an API — wrong page. Go to cloud.google.com/speech-to-text, read the docs, get an API key. This page is for people who wanted a ready desktop voice typing app and somehow found Google STT in search. To be clear: Google STT is a tool for building other products, not a product itself. You need us.
Cost for an active user
Say you dictate 8,000 words a day — about an hour of speech. Google Cloud STT pricing (Standard model, Speech-to-Text v2): $0.006 per 15 seconds = $0.024 per minute = $1.44 per hour. Monthly (22 working days) — about $32. Yearly — about $380. AuroraWhisp Pro is $19.90 once, forever. And that ignores the cost of building a Google STT client, which you write yourself or buy third-party.
If you do need an API
AuroraWhisp has no public API today. On the to-do list: a local HTTP server on localhost for integrations with other programs (so a Python script could use our recognition). No dates, no promises. If this is critical — write to hello@aurorawhisp.com with your use case.