Scribla: Dictation Keyboard
Voice to Text in Any App
Free
Now on iPad too: beside your mail, in full landscape. Math writes numbers the way your language writes them, and AI takes follow-ups in Spanish and Chinese.
Dictation hands back a wall of text without a single comma. By the time you have put the punctuation in and repaired the names, typing would have been faster. That is why people give up on it.
Scribla lives inside the keyboard. Press record, say it, and the text lands in the field you are already standing in: a messenger, mail, notes, a work chat. Nothing to switch to, nothing to copy back.
PUNCTUATION AND PARAGRAPHS, ALREADY IN PLACE
One long run of speech comes back split into paragraphs, with agreement repaired and stumbles taken out. Fillers that carry weight in written speech are left where they are, on purpose.
FOUR LANGUAGES, AND YOU PICK A PAIR
English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese. The pair is not a list of favourites, it is how the app works: the language key moves between your two, translation runs from one into the other, and the "you spoke the other language" prompt compares exactly that pair. Each language model is downloaded once and then runs with no network at all.
THE NAMES THAT BREAK EVERY TIME
"En dee ay" instead of NDA. A colleague's surname spelled out one syllable at a time. Write the replacement once and it goes in from then on. The keyboard carries its own letter layout for this, because what needs fixing is usually a word you cannot dictate.
EDITING THAT DOES NOT EAT THE GAIN
The edit strip breaks what you said into words: tap one and change its form, its case or its spelling without leaving the keyboard. The space bar doubles as a trackpad: slide sideways and the cursor walks by letters, slide up or down and it walks whole words at a time. One key removes the sentence the cursor sits in, for when the phrase came back wrong. Undo returns the entire insert rather than one character at a time.
SPEED
Speech runs at 120–150 words a minute against 30–40 when typing. And the person at the other end gets text they can read in ten seconds instead of a voice message they have to sit through.
AUDIO NEVER LEAVES THE PHONE
Speech is recognized on the device itself. The audio is not sent anywhere, and not because we promise it: there is no network in the recognition path at all. The keyboard never goes online and never reads what you type on the ordinary keys.
FOUR MODES, ONE KEY
Text. Ordinary dictation with the punctuation put in.
Math. Say "fifteen percent of two thousand four hundred" and get "15% of 2,400 = 360". Currencies convert at the published rate for the day.
Translate. Between the two languages of your pair, both ways. Need one line in a fourth language — hold the Translate key and pick the target.
AI. Ask a question out loud, get an answer as text rather than a transcript of your own question. It answers in the language you spoke.
WHAT GOES OUT
Audio, never. Text, in the AI modes: polishing, answers and synonyms are worked out by a model on the other side, and none of it runs without a connection. Those modes are on from first launch, and one switch in settings turns them off.
WHO THIS IS FOR
People who write a lot from a phone and cannot, or would rather not, send their voice to somebody else's server: lawyers, doctors, anyone working under an NDA. And anyone simply irritated by how slow typing is.
Scribla on iPad.
The tablet no longer shows a stretched phone: list on the left, content on the right, rotation either way. The keyboard measures itself against the window, not the screen, so keys stay a sane size in Split View, Slide Over and the floating layout. That also settles an old annoyance: you can park the app beside your mail, and the microphone no longer closes when you go off to type.
Math stopped getting numbers wrong.
"1,024 plus 5" used to answer "6.02"; in Spanish "1.923 menos 900" gave "−898.08". The thousands separator was read as a decimal point, and a plausible-looking wrong number went into your field. Thousands and decimals are now read and written the way your language writes them.
Also in this version:
"Two hundred fifty thousand" is no longer fifty thousand, and "subtract 5 from 20" gives 15 rather than minus fifteen.
Percentages are phrased in your own language: "15% of 2,400", "20% de 300", "300 的 20%".
AI mode understands follow-ups in Spanish and Chinese. Say "más corto" or "短一点" and the previous answer is rewritten, instead of being replaced by an answer to a new question.
The labels are translated all the way through: the language-pack section, onboarding and the custom-app editor were still in English.
On day one Scribla asks for microphone permission instead of reporting a refusal of something nobody requested.
The word strip stays put even when the phrase scrolls past the edge of a narrow field.
The developer, LLC ASCBS, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Seller
- LLC ASCBS
- Size
- 29.9 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Russian
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © dev@scribla.io