# Yating: audio transcription — Convert speech & voice to text

> AI-powered speech-to-text transcription for various professional and personal uses. (iPhone/iPad app by AILabs.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/yating-audio-transcription/id1343659994 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [AILabs](https://appshunter.io/developer/1270552661)
- Category: Productivity, Business
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.40/5 from 63 App Store ratings · 11 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 91 MB
- Languages: American English, Japanese, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2018-03-27
- Data updated: 2026-08-21
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/yating-audio-transcription/id1343659994/reviews.md

## What is Yating?

A handy tool for classes, meetings, interviews or the everyday moments that’s worth savoring. Yating understands Mandarin, Mandarin-English code-switch and Taiwanese. Better yet, our translation and speech recognition languages are expanding. Let Yating handles the repetitive recording and transcribing work for you, so that you could focus on the important goals. 

* 100% Made in Taiwan
The first speech recognition AI model that’s developed for Taiwanese accent Mandarin. We are 100% privately funded; the data and the RD are all from Taiwan.

* Small But Mighty
A handy tool for classes, meetings, interviews or the everyday moments that’s worth savoring. Yating understands Mandarin, English, Japanese, Cantonese and Taiwanese. Let Yating transcribes for you, so that you could focus on the important goals. You talk, Yating types.

*Talk Away, No Eavesdropping
We take your privacy seriously. We are not in the data selling business; your data is confidential and will not be transferred to any third parties. Your data is safe with us. You can execute the right to be forgotten by deleting your data from your account. 

*Seamless Cross-Platform Experience
The service is available on Notebook and mobile, so that you can access Yating regardless you are in the office or on the go. Use the Yating app to record an interview, a meeting  or a class. Turn on the Chrome Plug-in while you are in a Google Meet remote meeting, seminar or online course. If the internet is not stable, you can also record a voice memo and upload the audio file to convert to transcription later. 

*Subtitle mode
We offer live transcription in the subtitle mode. A visual aid to help you better understand what's been said when you can't hear clearly, e.g. online classes, remote meetings or seminars. The feature also helps deaf users to enjoy every moments in life, real-time.

*Enterprise Solutions
For large organizations that need additional security, control and customised solutions for specific domains or industries, please feel free to contact us. 

============= Many uses of Yating ===========

* Students
Use Yating to record lectures to help you review. Even when you accidentally doze out or lost focus during the class, you still have a chance to catch up and stay on track.  

*Analysts & Data scientists
Are you doing Social Media Analytic or Sentiment analysis for specific brands or medias? In addition to written text, are you also interested in knowing what’s been discussed verbally? Yating offers API for you to batch convert audios and videos to text (.txt), so that your analysis is more comprehensive and covers more dimensions. 

*UI/UX qualitative user researcher
Do you need to conduct qualitative research, i.e. in depth interviews or focus groups? Do you need to build user persona? Yating record the conversations in the transcription form— each verbose is labeled with the speaker plus time stamps. You can see who said what at what time-stamp in a glance. Yating saved 80% of the dictating time. Let Yating handles the repetitive transcribing work for you, so that you could focus on organizing the Affinity graph and extracting the crucial consumer insights.

*Podcaster
Are you producing a podcast program? Can your audience find a section of their favorite episodes easily? Yating converts conversations into text and present it in the transcription form. Adding a transcription for your program helps it to be more searchable— both for your audience and for the search engines!

*Hearing impaired
Are you losing hearing? Are you depending on lip-reading to understand what has been said? Yating offers live transcribe subtitle mode. When you have problems to hear clearly, turn on Yating’s subtitle mode, so that you could use textual assisting tool to help you understand what’s going on around you — what has been announced through the broadcast, what the online course or the panel talk is about, or what caused a heated debate in a remote meeting.

## Key features

- Speech to text conversion
- Supports Mandarin, English, Japanese, Cantonese, Taiwanese
- Real-time subtitle mode
- Cross-platform availability (mobile, Chrome plugin)
- Speaker identification and timestamps
- API for batch audio conversion

## Recent user reviews (10 of 11)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/yating-audio-transcription/id1343659994/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Doesn’t use Apple’s in-app purchase. Solicits credit card number

*2025-01-19*

I uploaded a 2 minute file to see how well it did and it gave me a few short snippets from the file requiring me to purchase more minutes to get more. When I tried to purchase more minutes it asked me for my credit card info. Is that even allowed in the US App Store? I thought all in-app purchases went through Apple’s in-app API. This seems very fishy.

### 5/5 — Best Voice to Text App

*2024-08-05*

I’m gobsmacked at how efficient this app is. I only downloaded it this afternoon and I’ve been able to read much more than I ever could have absorbed from listening to the podcasts that I was trying to learn from. This App is brilliant. So far I haven’t seen anything about future costs, so I’m totally enjoying it and being greatful to the designers and makers of the App. I give you thousands of Thank Yous

### 4/5 — 袂歹用

*2023-11-17*

試用一下感覺袂歹，毋過那會干焦無台語的選擇，一定愛台語加中國話，而且閣共台語嘛寫作中國話，按呢就毋是「逐字稿」啊

### 1/5 — Misleading

*2023-04-03*

Limited to 20 minutes' conversion time. Must purchase more minutes to transcribe over 20 minutes. Free app, no in-app purchases, yet charged for more than 20 minutes via website in the in-app browser.

### 5/5 — It is so great!

*2022-06-02*

It is always good to share something you like with your friends. Sometime it is a video or audio and to share the transcripts would be great. I ever used the dictation function in iPhone, which is really awful. Searched Apps and found 婷，tried a 5 minute long video by a British psychic and the transcripts are 95%+ accurate! Amazing, what a great work! It is also free, right? What a great love?! Highly recommended! Thank you 婷！

**Developer response:** Hi there! Thank you for your message. Sharing is caring! We are happy to help! Feel free to share our app with friends and families who might need it as well.

### 1/5 — Couldn’t get this to work

*2022-05-05*

I couldn’t get this to work. My audio recording was an English recording but my transcription was a mix of English and Chinese.  I couldn’t make heads or tails from the transcript.  It might work better if I had a Chinese recording, but this doesn’t work with English.

**Developer response:** Hi Edie, thanks for your message. Our live streaming models support English speech-to-text, but for the audio upload feature, only Mandarin/English and Mandarin/Taiwanese code-switching models are supported and the main language is Mandarin. 
We aim to offer more language selection for the audio upload feature down the road.

### 1/5 — Doesn’t work

*2022-02-20*

Tryed it a few ways and it just wouldn’t work! I’m very sad. Not happy .

**Developer response:** Hi there! Thank you for your message and apologize for the inconveniences. 
Do you mind if you could let us know what app behaviors differ from your expectations? You can reach me at Ann.chen@ailabs.tw. 

BTW, we offer free, unlimited instant recording service, as well as 20 mins for uplaod service. Please see details at asr.yating.tw/intro

### 4/5 — Need those sound records exported

*2021-10-08*

Wish the sound records could be exported individually instead under the context.
Cos sometimes the sound records more easier to reach out without context.

**Developer response:** Hi there! Thank you for your message! 
Just to clarify- when you mentioned “context”, did you mean the audio recording + transcript file? Please feel free to reach me at ann.chen@ailabs.tw.

### 5/5 — 得啦X

*2019-12-19*

是「聽得懂」不是「聽的懂」
應用程式介紹打錯字啦

**Developer response:** 親愛的fulfillthecute謝謝您幫我們抓到臭蟲，我們會立即修改，若有任何需求歡迎來信jarvis_n@ailabs.tw 謝謝您。

### 5/5 — 期待正式付費版

*2019-05-05*

非常喜歡，何時會推出付費正式版呢？

## Frequently asked questions about Yating

### What languages does Yating support for transcription?

Yating supports Mandarin, Mandarin-English code-switch, Taiwanese, English, Japanese, and Cantonese. The app is continuously expanding its language support.

### Is Yating available on multiple devices?

Yes, Yating offers a seamless cross-platform experience. It is available on mobile devices (iPhone and iPod) and also has a Chrome Plug-in for use with Google Meet and online courses.

### Does Yating offer real-time transcription?

Yes, Yating features a subtitle mode for live transcription. This provides a visual aid for understanding spoken content in real-time during online classes, remote meetings, or seminars.

### How does Yating handle user privacy?

Yating takes user privacy seriously and is not in the data selling business. Your data is confidential, will not be transferred to third parties, and you have the right to delete your data from your account.

### Can Yating identify different speakers in a recording?

Yes, Yating labels each verbose with the speaker and includes timestamps. This allows you to easily see who said what and when, which is particularly useful for interviews and focus groups.

### Is Yating suitable for offline use?

While real-time transcription requires an internet connection, Yating allows you to record a voice memo offline and upload the audio file later to convert it to transcription when you have a stable internet connection.

### How often is Yating updated?

The latest version of Yating is 3.17.3, and it was last updated on March 18, 2026. This indicates a commitment to ongoing development and improvements.

### What is the user rating for Yating?

Yating has a strong user rating of 4.4 stars based on 63 ratings, suggesting a generally positive user experience.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.17.4 — 2026-08-12

Hello! We continuously improve our product by adding new features and fixing bugs.

### 3.17.3 — 2026-03-18

bug fixes

### 3.17.2 — 2024-11-24

Stability Improvements: Fixed various known issues to enhance app stability

### 3.17.1 — 2024-11-20

Stability Improvements: Fixed various known issues to enhance app stability

### 3.16.1 — 2024-03-23

Bug fixed

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