Diction vs SpeechBee

Speech to text keyboard for iPhone. Tap the mic, talk, and watch your words appear in any app. Free to start, private by design, 99 languages. Dictate messages, emails, and notes. Works in any app you type in: Notion, WhatsApp, Slack, and everywhere else. No switching, no copy-pasting. Smart QWERTY keyboard. Autocorrect fixes typos as you type and splits run-together words. Word suggestions appear above the keys. Correct a suggestion back once and Diction stops offering it. Tap-to-fix. Select a word and smart alternatives appear. Spelling fixes, grammar corrections, better phrasing. One tap to accept. Save to My Words. Teach Diction your names and jargon for better accuracy over time. Transcription history with search. Copy, retry, and review past dictations. Failed transcriptions retry automatically so nothing gets lost. The Diction app has zero analytics, zero tracking, and zero data collection. AES-256-GCM encryption. X25519 key exchange. Diction One (paid subscription): highest-accuracy cloud speech models and Writing Tools. Turn natural speech into polished text, edit or rewrite by voice, translate on the fly. Select text and dictate what to change. Free trial included. On-device mode: runs locally on your iPhone with no internet needed. Audio never leaves your device. Self-hosted: run your own speech recognition server. Your network, your data, your models. Pairing is a scan: your server prints a QR code, you point the app at it, and keys rotate themselves after that. Writing Tools works there too, free, because it is your hardware. Open-source server on GitHub. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

SpeechBee turns your spoken words into clean text and puts it where you are writing. It removes filler words such as “um” and “uh,” learns names through your personal Dictionary, and expands spoken Snippets into saved text such as email addresses and links. When you would rather listen, share selected text with SpeechBee and hear it read aloud with a natural local voice. Listen to articles, messages, and other long passages while commuting, walking, or getting things done. SpeechBee works across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with local dictation in up to 99 languages. Dictation and Read Aloud require a SpeechBee subscription or lifetime in-app purchase after any available free trial. 1) WRITE WITH YOUR VOICE Use the Voice key on the SpeechBee keyboard while writing in Messages, Mail, Notes, and other apps. 2) CLEAN UP WHAT YOU SAY • Removes filler words automatically • Learns names and specialist terms through your personal Dictionary • Expands spoken Snippets into email addresses, links, and longer saved text • Supports spoken formatting commands 3) LISTEN INSTEAD OF READ Share selected text with SpeechBee to hear it with a local voice. Pause, change speed, or move between sentences. It is a simple way to listen to articles or long messages when reading is inconvenient. 4) PRIVATE BY DESIGN SpeechBee does not send microphone audio to a cloud transcription service. Read Aloud does not send selected text to a SpeechBee voice service. Microphone audio stays in memory and is not saved as a recording. Optional recent transcripts stay on your device. 5) WORKS ACROSS DEVICES If you enable iCloud sync, Dictionary corrections and Snippets sync through your private iCloud account. Audio, transcripts, and recent history are not included. DICTATION LANGUAGES (99) Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Nynorsk, Occitan, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, Yoruba. READ ALOUD LANGUAGES (31) Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese. Privacy Policy: https://speechbee.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://speechbee.app/terms