# Sotto Voce: Private Dictation — Speech to Text Voice Keyboard

> Speech to Text Voice Keyboard (iPhone/iPad app by Daniel Li.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sotto-voce-private-dictation/id6808935928 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Daniel Li](https://appshunter.io/developer/1772462756)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 23 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-21
- Data updated: 2026-10-04

## What is Sotto Voce?

Your voice, typed. On your phone, and nowhere else.

Speak, and your words appear in whatever you were already typing in - a message, an email, a note, a search box. No switching apps, no copying and pasting.

Dictation you can watch

Sotto Voce shows you it is listening. A live surface moves with your voice as you speak, so you can see it caught the sentence without reading it back. Pick the look that suits you - Glow, Card, Wave or Ring.

- Hears you over the room - background noise is stripped out before a word is transcribed
- Speak in any app - it works everywhere the system keyboard does
- Recent dictations - the last things you said, if you need them again

A keyboard that stays out of the way

The keyboard itself is deliberately plain: a full QWERTY that behaves the way iOS does, with the microphone where you expect it. Nothing to learn.

Why on-device matters

Dictation apps usually send your voice to a server. That is a recording of you in someone else's data center, attached to an account. Sotto Voce does the whole thing on the phone in your hand, so there is nothing to leak, subpoena, or sell. Your voice is never uploaded, never stored on a server, and never used to train anything.

Recordings, too

Record or import audio and get a transcript with speakers separated, plus a summary if you want one - a meeting to write up, a client call, a lecture, a long voice note.

Requires iPhone with iOS 26. Some features need Apple Intelligence.

Free and Pro

Dictate up to 1,000 words a week for free. Sotto Voce Pro removes the limit: billed monthly, yearly (the first 7 days free), or once for lifetime. Prices are shown in the app before you buy.

Privacy Policy: https://dashing-daniel-li.github.io/audiototext-support/privacy.html
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Annual | $19.99 | per year |
| Monthly | $2.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lifetime | $79.99 | one-time |


## Is Sotto Voce safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Sotto Voce.

## Is Sotto Voce legit?

Sotto Voce: Private Dictation appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Sotto Voce is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.5.0 — 2026-10-03

Your first words no longer go missing, and the Dynamic Island now shows at a glance whether Sotto Voce is listening.

- Fixed: the first word could get lost when you started speaking right away
- Dynamic Island: the logo dims when nothing is listening, lights up when it is, matches your chosen colour theme, and lets you stop dictation from there
- Wave is now the default look while you speak
- New 30-second option for Turn Off After
- Smoother spacing when dictation starts in the middle of a sentence
- Small touch-ups to the keyboard buttons

### 1.4.4 — 2026-09-30

Bug fixes and improvements.

### 1.4.3 — 2026-09-27

More accurate typing and dictation.

- Fast typing no longer drops letters, including taps between keys, just under the space bar and at the ends of rows
- The keyboard learns where you tap each key, and knows which letter usually comes next, so near-misses land on the right key
- Autocorrect picks the closest fix for what you meant
- The first word of a dictation is no longer cut off, even if you speak the moment you tap Start
- Stop and start dictating mid-sentence and it carries on in lowercase
- New: Turn Off After › Automatic learns how you dictate, keeping the mic ready while you are busy and letting it go sooner when you are not

### 1.4.2 — 2026-09-26

A fresh look for our App Store page, with a new preview video. The app itself is the same as 1.4.1.

### 1.4.1 — 2026-09-26

Smoother, livelier listening, and a faster Enhanced model.

- The listening looks are redrawn with smoother motion: a gentle breath while you pause, and words that rise in as they're heard
- Fixed the listening look going blank after a phone call or after switching models
- Clear responds the moment you touch it, and fills as you hold it
- Keys fade out as you type, like the system keyboard
- Enhanced is ready almost instantly after an update, and old model files are cleaned up to save space
- Accurate has been removed: Standard and Enhanced remain, and anyone on Accurate moves to Standard
- Settings groups now start closed

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