Transcribe Best

I have tried a lot of these types of apps and this is one of the best. Pros... * Private/on device * No subscription * Works on older device with older os (as well as newer device) * Tiny model available for device without much space (overall tiny model works well with English, but not as well for French - larger model works well for French) * Really neat feature that highlights applicable (current) text in blue when listening to recording. No other app I tried has this feature. It's great! * Options to play audio in background and record in background * When you select text, you can get a translation * You can delete the audio and keep the text (or delete both) * You can customize the name of the recordings * Doesn't require speech recognition permission (that would have been a deal breaker for me) * Gives a lot of information (date/time, file size, model used, language, length) * Fast transcribing for English on tiny model * Good customer service Cons... * Not real time (quite fast for English on tiny model, rather slow for French on largest model) * Translation not provided by default (but you can still get a translation if you select text) * Can't edit transcribed text * Search only seems to work with title (not content) * Sometimes adds text out of nowhere (e.g. 'thank you'/'merci') and sometimes interprets silence as '(sad music)' Wish list... * Add button to copy (you can select the text but a button would be easier) * Add option for larger text size * Add more sorting options (e.g. sort by title) * Add option to save to folders * Add way to set default titles (current default title is long and gets cut off from view on smaller device) * When you select text, add option to speak it (very helpful for foreign languages) - this feature already exists in the tablet version of the app but not the phone version * Add option to show translation by default (without having to select text first) * Highlight record/import buttons with another color (they blend in too much) * Add option to NOT include any text when blank audio/silence, coughing, etc. Thanks for wonderful app!

Pretty bare-bones, but it largely works. On long audio files (I have two two-hour-plus ones) it seems to have a hell of a bug where the transcription will just repeat the same text over and over again, but if you listen along at that point to the audio file that means it is repeating that text when it should be transcribing additional, different things that were said while the transcription insists it was the same few words over and over and over and over and over. I've gotten this result with multiple different sizes of transcription engine, and pretty much always getting the same kind of bug, even if it's not always in the same locations.