Dictate: Private Voice Notes

Private voice notes that never leave your iPhone. Press once and talk. Dictate turns what you said into text on the device and cleans it up for reading.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
- No cloud processing
- No account required
- No data collected
- No subscription fees

ON YOUR IPHONE, NOTHING TO SET UP
Parakeet, a leading open speech model, ships inside the app. It transcribes 25 languages and detects which one you speak. Apple Speech covers the other languages your iPhone has models for. Neither sends audio anywhere, and neither needs a key or an account. A fresh install records and transcribes before you open Settings.

A TRANSCRIPT YOU CAN READ
Apple Intelligence makes a reading version on your iPhone: filler words and false starts go, spoken corrections are resolved, and counted points, lists, dates, amounts and numbers are formatted. Switch to the original at any time. It is split into timed blocks you can play from or copy one by one, and the words highlight as the audio plays.

MEETINGS, WITH WHO SAID WHAT
Mark a recording as a meeting and Dictate labels the speakers on the device. The reading version keeps who said what.

ONE PRESS, FROM ANYWHERE
Start from your Apple Watch, the Action button, a shortcut, Control Center, the Home Screen widget or the Lock Screen. Control Center, Siri and Shortcuts start recording without opening the app. The Watch records on its own and hands the recording to your iPhone.

AUDIO FROM OTHER APPS
Share a recording from Voice Memos, Files or another app to Dictate, and it is transcribed on your iPhone like any other.

YOUR DICTIONARY
Add names and terms once, and the reading version spells them your way.

EXTENSIBLE WITH WEBHOOKS
For people who want to take the text further: every transcript can POST to an HTTPS endpoint you control, signed with your own secret and retried when your endpoint is down. Connect your own assistant, an automation or your backend. It is optional and off until you set it up.

NOTHING GETS LOST
Every recording is saved before anything else happens, and each step has its own queue, so a recording made with the phone in your pocket is there when you look.