Voxena: Speech to Text

Record and watch your words appear, or have any PDF, book or note read aloud. All on your device, no account. Try it free for 14 days, then buy it once.

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.