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How accurate Spanish speech to text is in Deixis

The test used Google's FLEURS dataset of sentences read aloud. Its Spanish split is Latin American Spanish, es_419, so that is what the figure describes: 80 clips, the 20 shortest plus 60 at random with a fixed seed, scored as words wrong after lower-casing and dropping punctuation, and decoded on the processor of a 12-core desktop PC running Windows. The result was 3.1% words wrong. The evidence page has the method in full.

Deixis does Spanish with NVIDIA's Parakeet v3, which runs on your own processor. On the same 80 clips, the multilingual Whisper small model that Deixis shipped before 1.6 got 5.5% of the words wrong, so Parakeet makes a little over half as many mistakes.

What the figure does not cover:

• Spain's Spanish. The figure is for Latin American Spanish. Spanish as spoken in Spain was not measured, and neither was any particular country's accent, so we make no claim for them.
• Free speech and noise. Reading a sentence aloud is easier than dictating your own thoughts, and nothing here tested a noisy room.
• Your laptop or a Mac. 0.48 seconds is the median decode on one desktop processor. A laptop is slower, and none of these figures were measured on a Mac.

Dictating in Spanish with what you already have

Spanish speakers have more built-in options than most, so it is worth knowing what each one does before installing anything. Microsoft's and Google's pages below were read on 4 November 2026.

Windows voice typing (Win+H) does Spanish, online. Microsoft's page lists Spanish (Mexico) and Spanish (Spain) and says voice typing uses online speech recognition powered by Azure Speech services, with an internet connection required. No Microsoft page we read says it works offline in Spanish.

Windows voice access does Spanish on the PC. On Windows 11 22H2 and later, voice access downloads Spanish (Spain or Mexico) once and then recognises speech on the computer itself. It is free and offline, and it is built for controlling the whole PC by voice, with dictation as one part. If that is what you need, try it first.

Word can dictate in Spanish, with Microsoft 365. Word's Dictate button fully supports Spanish (Spain and Mexico), but Microsoft says it is only available to Microsoft 365 subscribers, that it is not in Office 2016 or 2019 without Microsoft 365, that it needs a reliable internet connection, and that your speech is sent to Microsoft. It works inside Microsoft's apps, not in every program.

Google Docs voice typing does Spanish in Docs. It works in the latest Chrome, Edge or Safari, only inside Google Docs and Slides speaker notes, and with a Google account. Google says your browser controls the speech-to-text service, and its voice commands work only in English.

Where Deixis differs is that it is one tool for every program: the same key in Word, Outlook, your browser and your chat app, with the speech recognised on your computer and nothing to subscribe to. It runs on the Mac too, we publish how accurate it is, and what leaves your computer is listed byte by byte.

Wispr Flow, Dragon and the Mac

Wispr Flow recognises speech and cleans it up in its own cloud. Our facts file on it, checked on 7 October 2026, records no list of the languages it supports, so we do not state one. Its own pages say every dictation is transcribed in its cloud and that you need an account, so your Spanish audio leaves your computer each time. Its Pro plan is $15 a month or $144 a year, and its free plan allows 2,000 words a week on desktop. Wispr Flow compared with Deixis.

Dragon Professional 16 is sold in Spanish and remains the serious choice for people who dictate all day with voice commands and macros. It runs only on Windows; Nuance stopped selling Dragon for Mac in 2018. Nuance publishes no price; the Spanish reseller ITVOZ lists a permanent licence of Dragon Professional v16 at €1,007 (its page does not say whether VAT is included; 4 November 2026). Dragon compared with Deixis.

On a Mac, Apple Dictation does Spanish on the device, including Spain's, Mexico's and the United States' Spanish among others, once its speech model is downloaded, per Apple's feature-availability page (4 November 2026). Apple Dictation compared with Deixis.

What you get in Spanish, and what you do not

What Deixis 1.6 promises in Spanish:

• Push-to-talk dictation in any app. Hold, speak Spanish, release; the text is typed at the cursor, and your clipboard is handed back the way you left it.
• Recognition on your own computer. After a one-time download of about 670 MB, Spanish dictation works with the Wi-Fi off, and once the speech model is on it, the audio of a dictation never leaves the machine, under any setting.
• No account, and no trial clock on dictation.

What is not there yet:

• The polish is tuned for English. Cleanup, the dictionary of your own words, the vocabulary packs (English word lists) and the punctuation Deixis adjusts to the field you type into are all built for English. We do not claim they work in Spanish.
• Unusual names are harder. Parakeet hears a dictionary word only by its sound, so a rare surname or product name comes out right less often than it would with Whisper in English.
• One language at a time. You choose Spanish; Deixis does not detect it, and switching between Spanish and English inside a sentence was not measured.
• Spain's Spanish is not measured. The figure is Latin American Spanish.
• Windows needs AVX2, a processor from 2013 or later (Intel Haswell, AMD Excavator); the Mac needs macOS 13 or later on Apple silicon. Android follows later.

Free, and where it stops. Spanish dictation is free forever, like everything Deixis runs on your own computer. What can cost money is the part that needs a language model: cleanup by a model rather than rules, translating a selection, and meeting notes. Those are free with your own provider key or a model on your own machine; otherwise Deixis Pro runs them, at $49 a year or $10 a month.

Setting it up

1. Download Deixis for Windows or the Mac and install it.
2. On first run on Windows, Deixis proposes your computer's display language. On a Spanish system that is Spanish; otherwise choose it.
3. Let it download the speech model once, about 670 MB.
4. Click into any text field, hold Ctrl+Win (Ctrl+Option on a Mac), say a Spanish sentence, and let go.

From then on it works offline. The other languages work the same way.