ScribeAI - Speech to Text

The ability to take the whole model offline and just talk and it will understand even if you have no internet connection is very convenient. The precision, undisputedly, the best I have encountered yet (I have been using the large model). However, it is very easy to accidentally delete a note. Also, there is no back up to icloud feature which I think could be helpful. As an idea for the future, I think the developer can introduce a special file format to store both the audio and the text in the same file to make it convenient when I want to share with someone.

I’ve been looking for an iOS app that uses the open AI whisper algorithm, v2 large, at highest quality. I’m wanting to create transcripts of audio for my elderly dad for when his age related hearing loss means he can’t make out what’s being said in reverberant situations. I have tried the free open sourced whisper algorithm which is remarkable. My test piece is a recording of a eulogy from a funeral in a reverberant church spoken in English which I made some while back on a phone. The full precision algorithm is word perfect in a different app so I had high hopes. This app however is junk. It picked up less than 10% of the words, and those words bore literally no relationship to what was spoken (not even homophones) and weren’t even a sentence. It threw in some Chinese characters (words?) as well. Where the original language was English. I’m aware transcription is difficult. Open AI however changed the game and their algorithm really works. Unfortunately this developer I presume has opted to not use the high quality modes, which is irksom espGiven this app is super expensive - and they’re not selling the transcription algorithm - the clever bit was created and distributed for free by open AI. They’re charging us for a “front end” and their choice of modes - So to not enable the “good version” of the free algorithm they are using is garbage. I tried all combinations of options in settings not one would work or spear any better . Sadly complete junk. Presumably the developer opted for a lower compute requirement instance of the algorithm with the result it doesn’t work in difficult situations. Ah well. “Delete”. Btw - How do I know the free open sourced open ai algorithm is so good ? By using a different iOS app “whisper transcribe” which I would happily use but there are a couple of major bugs that stop it working most of the time that the developer isn’t addressing, but when it does process a recording - it is astonishing with near 100% transcription accuracy, including on this sample of audio I used with this app, so it is an identical test. That instance of open AI’s whisper gets 100% transcription accuracy over 10 minutes of my (poor, extremely reverberant) recording but for one Maltese word which was spoken in the middle of all the english. Astonishing. Sadly not the app I am reviewing here however. Total garbage. Update 1 - I am now somewhat embarrassed at how strong my criticism was, born out of frustration, as the app developer reached out to me by

Love this app. I was using another dictation app before would have to spend ages after adding punctuation and correcting mistakes, this does it for me and doesn’t make the mistakes in the first place! Has saved me so much time. Thank you!!

Scarily accurate! The auto punctuation saves me so much time, best dictation app I’ve tried!

I use it to dictate letters, reports and even shopping lists. I use it in the balanced mode. It’s much more accurate than dictation apps I have used in the past.