# Voxena: Speech to Text — Read Aloud PDFs & Voice Notes

> Read Aloud PDFs & Voice Notes (iPhone/iPad app by NAVEED SHERIFF.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/voxena-speech-to-text/id6815912706 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [NAVEED SHERIFF](https://appshunter.io/developer/6807086657)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 65 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-11-02
- Data updated: 2026-11-06

## What is Voxena?

Voxena turns speech into text and text into speech, and keeps everything on your iPhone or iPad.

Transcription and read-aloud usually come as separate apps, often with a server that receives your audio, a cap on your minutes and a monthly fee. Voxena does both jobs in one private library, entirely on your device, for a single one-time purchase.

RECORD WITH LIVE TEXT
Record a lecture, a memo or an interview and watch the words appear as you talk, using Apple's on-device speech recognition. Recording keeps going with the screen locked. "Phone on a table" mode picks up a whole room more evenly.

LISTEN TO ANYTHING
Import a PDF, Word document, EPUB book, web page, text or Markdown file and have it read aloud by a natural-sounding voice that runs on your device, or by your device's own voices. Each sentence is highlighted as it's read, the text follows along, and you can control playback from the Lock Screen. Mixed-language documents switch voices sentence by sentence. Right-to-left scripts such as Persian and Arabic are read in the right order, and scanned PDFs are recognised on the device. Prepare a whole document in advance and it plays from start to end without a pause.

DICTATE AND TIDY
Speak into a note. Tidy removes filler words and adds punctuation without rewording what you said, and it always keeps the raw text. A personal dictionary fixes names and terms, and pronunciation rules fix words a voice gets wrong.

ONE SEARCHABLE LIBRARY
Keep recordings, notes and documents together with folders, tags and full-text search. Export any item as plain text, Markdown, SRT or WebVTT subtitles, or audio, or export the whole library as an archive.

MADE FOR
• Students who record lectures and listen to their reading lists
• People who would rather speak than type, including for accessibility
• Readers who want long documents read to them
• Anyone who won't upload private recordings to a cloud service

TRY IT FREE, THEN BUY IT ONCE
Everything is free for 14 days. After that, unlock Voxena with a single purchase: no subscription, nothing that renews. If you don’t unlock it, everything you made stays yours to read and export, and each recording and document still plays its first 5 minutes.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No account, no subscription, no analytics, no Voxena cloud
• Recognition and reading aloud run on the device
• An optional app lock uses Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode
• You choose whether your library goes into your iPhone's backups
• Settings › Privacy lists everything that could leave the device

Voxena is not a meeting app. It doesn't identify speakers or join calls. Make sure you have permission to record people where the law requires it.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 14-day Trial | Free | one-time |
| Voxena Full Version | $4.99 | one-time |


## Is Voxena safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Voxena.

## Is Voxena legit?

Voxena: Speech to Text appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Voxena is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1.0 — 2026-11-05

Voxena is now free to download. Try everything free for 14 days, then unlock it with a single one-time purchase — no subscription. Everything you make stays yours, unlocked or not. If you bought Voxena before, it stays unlocked.

New in this version:
• Five themes to choose from in Settings › Appearance: Tide, Nocturne, Ember, Scarlet and Velvet
• A redesigned Home, and an Activity view of your listening and recording
• A natural-sounding voice that runs entirely on your device
• Money, fractions, dates and street names read more naturally
• A moving bar shows when a voice is preparing speech
• Layouts made for larger and foldable iPhones, including iPhone Duo
• The reader keeps the current sentence in view, even inside very long paragraphs
• Reading aloud no longer skips long sentences
• The Lock Screen and Control Center show the real playback state
• With the app lock on, Voxena stays hidden in the app switcher
• Files shared to Voxena from other apps open reliably

### 1.0.0 — 2026-11-02

No release notes.

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