This app helps me communicate with my husband. He had a stroke several years ago that affected his ability to understand spoken words, aphasia. With this app I can type out words or sentences. This helps him to read what is being said. It is very frustrating for him when he is left out of a conversation because he cannot always understand. It also helps me. Repeating a word or phrase over and over again can be very exhausting. It is easy to loose patience, even though you know he cannot help his a ability to hear and understand.

Updated Review:Does not work; simply crashes with any attempt to use with new update.I have had my notes entirely wiped out multiple times over the past years by this app. Do not trust the notes function. The developer does not respond except eventually to say that what you are saying isn’t true, and then not at all.I am a paying subscriber. That won’t last. Original Review:Hallelujah👏. Thank you for NOT keeping or tracking our data! I have been been searching for this solution for years. It works well on a phone with iOS 16-17. (My iPod touch with iOS 15 requires dictation and speech recognition permissions + WiFi to operate properly, which I don’t allow, but iOS 17 doesn’t require the permissions to transcribe files; Siri is not enabled on my phone.)This is accurate and simple to use; I’ve tried many transcription services and this is as good as it gets short of human transcription, but it is the only one that is also affordable and private. I recommend changing the setting to save notes automatically for those who have the space, btw. As a writer who does a lot of thinking via audio, I have bent over backwards trying to solve the transcription problem for years. I actually never subscribe to any app service, but I made an exception and purchased a year of this one so that I can transcribe audio files. I am thrilled! I pray it remains private and affordable in the years to come🙏.

I was specifically looking for an app that could import an imported voice recording and then transcribe it. I was impressed by the developers written responses to clients, and could see that the price is right for my occasional need for this task, so I purchased the premium version and then immediately imported a recording of a friend that I had made using my go-to recording app which is Voice Record Pro, with my iPhone sitting next to the MacBook Air over which the voice was being heard. That means I was recording a broadcast voice rather than a person talking into the iPhone mic. Then I exported that to my iCloud account, then I imported that from iCloud into VoiceToText Pro Premium, but it was not able to even get into the ballpark of doing a minimally acceptable transcription. Obviously this is not an optimal situation, but it is a real world task that is needed.

I have to say the support team has been on this problem super fast. As of three day since I bought the premium version of the app I still have not been able to get it to work. Now this doesn’t not for now seem to be the developers problem as my iPhone running on iOS 12.4.1 does not have any way to do the fixes of the problem. I know!! What gives Apple. My iOS seems to not ya e a specific Siri and Search category in setting with a dictation button to switch on and off. So let’s see what the problem solvers come up with and I will issue an update. Still no app function, but working on it. ::::::::::::::I would give it zero stars if I could as it has done nothin but aggravate me. I will let you know if the support team ever contacts me, but I paid $5.99 for the pro version and the app has never worked. I keep getting an error memo that says speech recognition is not working, EVEN THOUGH I didn’t need speech recognition. I needed to transcribe some voice memos. Every time I add a file I get that error message. I deleted the app and added it again but it made no difference. They basically just stole my money