Converting voice to text is a handy way to dictate speeches, convert presentations on the fly and create written documents when your hands are otherwise unavailable.

There are countless Android apps that make use of speech recognition — why not follow suit and add this feature to your own Android applications?

Far and away, the best feature has been speech-to-text tools that let me type without a keyboard. Honorable mentions go to swipe keyboards on phones, biometric authentication and password managers.

Two vendors of mobile voice technology have teamed up to power carrier services that transcribe voicemail messages and conference calls into text.