I've been obsessed with voice input for years. I've used the following tools on my phone:

1. AudioPen

I like it for quick recordings. I think it is a good one for initial practice with speech to text writing. You can change the writing output easily (voice, length, tone, format). I was an early adopter so I got great pricing for the premium version which is now $99 per year. I don’t like the 15 minute time limit and inability to record while switching between apps. https://audiopen.ai

2. Otter

Great for conversations, but you can use it on a monologue too. I’m using Otter to write a course with a group with our virtual meeting transcripts. Paid Otter Pro version is $16.99 per month. https://otter.ai

3. Ultimate Brain Voice Notes

This is my favorite. It integrates with my Notion because I use Thomas Frank’s Ultimate Brain system for Notion. Takes more initial setup, but it's glorious for reducing my administrative burden and digital overwhelm. All I have to do is hit record from my phone, and the transcription shows up in my Notion notes inbox with an AI generated title and even follow up items and a summary. $30 per month for a paid Pipedream account, plus about $0.40/hour for voice recordings. I’m constantly using it. https://thomasjfrank.com/how-to-transcribe-audio-to-text-with-chatgpt-and-notion/

4. Gboard - using it now to write this post by dictating in real time. I use it on my phone to write some texts, emails, etc.

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I know I left out Dragon Nuance, the OG of dictation everyone says is the gold standard. I haven’t tried it yet. I think I might explore it next. $150 for year for Dragon Anywhere.

Any other favorite mobile speech-to-text apps you love for writing?

Free and paid options.I want to read books and documents on the go so I decided listening to it is the best way to go. However I would need to either convert pdfs into mp3s that don't sound terrible or gett a text to speech or eBook reader app for that. I would like free and paid options please. Thanks

Hi All

I need a good keyboard for a Samsung S22 which specifically has good recognition for voice to text.

I've tried the basic Samsung keyboard one and also switched to the Google voice recognition and they are both really poor. They don't get words correct or add punctuation and it's then a lot of extra work sorting the texts out.

I used to have an iPhone for work which I really hated but I can't deny that the voice to text recognition was much more reliable

Has anyone got any recommendations?

Thank you very much!