In which countries 35 voice input services are registered

Potok transcribes Russian speech; this site has been translated into English for convenience.

Among 35 voice input services and programs, 9 are registered in Russia, 9 in the USA, 2 in Europe, and one each in Australia and the UAE. For 2 the country is stated on the website but not confirmed, for 2 the legal entity is named without a country, and for 9 there is no data. Potok (potok.now) is not in the sample; it is a sole proprietor in Russia.

Besides code, voice input has a legal entity that releases it, and a legal entity has a country of registration. Among the 35 services checked, this picture turned out to be varied: from sole proprietors in Russia to companies abroad, some of which do not name a country at all.

How the legal entities and countries were counted

We went through potok.now's own verified database of 35 voice input programs and services and looked at the “legal entity” field on the official website or in the offer for each one. A country was counted only when it is named directly in this field, and not deduced from indirect signs such as the website's domain. If a record as a whole is marked as unverified, as with A-Golos, or the country appears only in secondary sources, as with Transkriptor, it went into a separate “claimed, not verified” column, and not into “yes” or “no”. If a legal entity is named but the country is not given in the record, as with Willow Voice and SuperWhisper, that is also its own column, and the country was not deduced from it. The status “sole proprietor” or “self-employed” was marked by the direct word in the same field. Another review from the same database, where the voice is physically processed, is built in a similar way.

In which countries the 35 services are registered

• Russia: 9 of 35, of which 7 are sole proprietors or self-employed: SpeakFlow, Diktuy, WhispeRu, v2txt.ru, Airword, RechFlow, SpeechPad (a voice notepad). Two more Russian legal entities are Yandex dictation and the entry for Voco (TsRT) and Laitis (the country was taken from the TsRT legal entity; Laitis does not name a legal entity on its website).
• USA: 9 of 35: Lispr, Aqua Voice, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Speechify, Win+H, Windows 11 Voice Access, Apple Dictation, Google voice input, Otter.ai.
• Europe: 2: MacWhisper (the Netherlands), Voibe (the United Kingdom). Australia: 1: Talkpad. UAE: 1: VoiceHotKey.
• Claimed, not verified: 2: Transkriptor (the USA, by secondary sources), A-Golos (Kyrgyzstan, not verified).
• Legal entity named, country not given: 2: Willow Voice, SuperWhisper.
• No data on the legal entity at all: 9: Voisty, GigaType, Molvi, Typeless, Glas (LidFly), Wispr Flow, Spokenly, VoiceInk, Lynote.

What this data does not show

Potok is not in this sample; it is not one of the 35 compared services but a separate product. Legally Potok is a sole proprietor, Russia, with payment by a Russian card in rubles. Potok is a cloud service: recognition runs on servers in Russia, and it does not work without an internet connection. Other cuts of the same database are collected in the general section of voice input statistics.

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