Aloud: Live Captions

Live captions that admit it when they are guessing. A word it is unsure of is marked — tap it to see what else it heard, or ask for that bit again. Around 70 languages.

Aloud writes out what people around you are saying, as they say it, in text big enough to read from across a table.

Put your phone down between you and whoever is talking. There is nothing for them to install, join or hold. No account, no sign-up.

WHAT IT DOES

• Live captions, as it is said — speech becomes text the moment it is spoken, split into turns so a back-and-forth reads like a conversation rather than one long paragraph • Pinch to size the words — as large as you need, and remembered for next time • Write back — type a reply at full screen size and hold the phone up, or drop it straight into the transcript • Turn — flips the screen so it faces the person sitting opposite you • Catch me up — one tap sums up the last minute, worked out on your phone • Stop after — end a session automatically after 5 to 90 minutes; when the clock runs down it offers you more time instead of closing mid-sentence • Every session saved — filed automatically with a title and a summary, and searchable by any word anyone said

THREE WAYS TO LISTEN

Nearby — runs the speech model on your iPhone itself. Works with no signal, nothing leaves the device, free and unlimited. Best within arm's reach.

Range — hears across a room and copes far better with noise. Cleaner punctuation, and it uses the words you have saved to your vocabulary.

Studio — everything Range does, plus a colour for each speaker and a shorter pause before a turn is called finished, so a change of speaker lands on its own line.

WHO IT IS FOR

Deaf and hard of hearing. Noisy cafés and quiet voices. Appointments where what was actually said matters afterwards. Anyone who has spent a conversation nodding along and hoping they guessed right.

PRIVACY

There is no account and no server of ours, so your transcripts never reach us. In Nearby, audio never leaves your iPhone. In Range and Studio, audio goes to Apple to be transcribed and nowhere else. Your sessions, settings and vocabulary stay on your device. No ads, no analytics SDK, no tracking.

A NOTE ON ACCURACY

Speech recognition gets things wrong. Accents, crosstalk, distance and unusual names all cost accuracy, and a mistaken word can invert a sentence. Aloud is an aid for following a conversation, not a verbatim record and not a medical device. Check anything important with the person who said it.

ABOUT THE SUBSCRIPTION

Nearby is free and unlimited, forever. Aloud Unlimited unlocks Range and Studio with no timer.

• 3 days free, then $0.99 per month • Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase • The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • Manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings • Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when a subscription is purchased

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