AI Voice Keyboard & Dictation

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, Notes, a search box, someone's badly built web form.

Transcription uses Apple's own speech recognition, on the phone for English and every other language your iPhone handles on the device. Sotto has no server and no account, so there's nowhere for your words to go.

Otherwise it's 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.

One odd bit of setup: iOS won't let a keyboard open the microphone, so the Sotto app listens and hands the text to the keyboard. Start a session in the app once and go type wherever you want. It stays open until you end it, and recording only starts when you tap the mic.

To set it up, add Sotto under Settings, General, Keyboard, then turn on Full Access. Full Access is how the keyboard reads the text the app wrote down. Sotto never asks for network access.

Dictation works in over 60 languages. A switch in Settings drops the "um" and "uh" before they get typed, and repeated words get cleaned up.

iOS has no clipboard history, so Sotto keeps one. The last few things you copied sit above the keys, and one tap pastes them. It stays on the phone, and you can switch it off or clear it in Settings.

Cost: the first 7 days are free, then it's $4.99 once. If you're already paying monthly, that keeps working until you cancel.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/