Voice Keyboard: Speech to Text
Hands-Free Dictation, Any App
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Free the first week. After that it's $4.99/mo or $39.99/yr, and you can cancel anytime from Settings.
Sotto is a keyboard with a mic key on it. Tap the key, say what you meant to type, tap it again. The text lands wherever you were already typing: Messages, Mail, a search box, someone's badly built web form.
Transcription happens on the phone, using Apple's on-device speech recognition. Nothing gets uploaded. There is no server to upload it to. It works in airplane mode.
Otherwise it is a plain keyboard. Letters, numbers, symbols, shift, backspace, return. The mic is one more key, not a mode you have to go somewhere else to turn on.
The setup has one odd wrinkle. iOS will not let a keyboard extension open the microphone, so the Sotto app listens and puts the transcript in a container shared with the keyboard. Start a Voice Session in the app once, then go type wherever you want. On the default setting it stays open until you end it. Most of the time you start it and forget it's there. Recording begins only after you tap the mic.
To set it up: add Sotto under Settings, General, Keyboard, then turn on Full Access. In this keyboard, Full Access is used to read the transcript from that shared container. Network permission never appears because Sotto doesn't request it.
Dictation runs in over 60 languages: Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin and the rest of Apple's list. Pick yours in Settings. There's also a switch that drops the "um" and "uh" before the text gets typed. The keys use a Latin QWERTY layout. If a language needs its own script, Sotto does the talking and you switch keyboards to type.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Information
- Seller
- Han Kim
- Size
- 6.7 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 32 more
- English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Sotto Yearly $39.99
- Sotto Monthly $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Han Kim