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The Notes app on your iPhone transcribes audio to text for free.. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac In the updated Notes app in iOS 18, you can transcribe audio to text for free: Your iPhone will ...

There are many note-taking apps, ranging from Apple Notes and Google Keep to Obsidian and Notion. Most of them use text as the primary input method and provide features around it. Developer Louis ...

In some ways, 2025 was when AI dictation apps really took off. Dictation apps have been around for years, but in the past they’ve proved slow and inaccurate — unless you speak with particular accents ...

If old sci-fi shows are anything to go by, we're all using our computers wrong. We're still typing with our fingers, like cave people, instead of talking out loud the way the future was supposed to be ...

With the new Voice Typing Dictation feature, users can now speak naturally and have Speechify’s new Mac app turn that recording into clean text across any app on macOS. Here’s how it works. Apple ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The future of voice to text is here. I’ve ...

At time of writing, Cleft's Mac app is fully functional, but the iPhone app is only available through TestFlight. It's still usable, but being in beta, it's not on the App Store yet. That's set to ...

This has made the best voice to text applications increasingly valuable to users in a range of different environments, from education to business. This is not least because the technology has matured ...

Instapaper, the popular read-it-later service, is now available via CarPlay. You might be wondering how a reading-focused app translates to CarPlay, but it all comes down to text-to-speech technology.