Whisper Notes - Speech to Text

Update: I received a response from the developer, who seemed genuinely sorry that the app didn’t work for me and explained that it’s because it’s not compatible with older iPhones. They said that they have updated the app description to give adequate warning of this. Changing my rating to four stars for good ethics! ORIGINAL REVIEW: I like this concept, as I am off grid a lot and prefer to keep AI off my phone. However, I downloaded the app and it only worked the first time. On my second test, it’s been trying to transcribe a one minute recording for half an hour and it still not completed. In addition, the app keeps closing itself. I attempted to follow the refund request procedure as outlined in the app, only to find it is not eligible for a refund. Unfortunately, this has been a waste of money. I do have an older phone, a 2020 iPhone SE, but would expect at least some baseline level of functionality. If anyone on the development team reads this, would I be able to get a refund, please?

I have been searching for a simple, audio file to text software that was accurate, actually worked (for some reason, of the 10 I tried, only one was able to upload my m4a files!). I was about to purchase an expensive online subscription service, though I may only need like 6 hours of transcription a month, but figured for 5 dollars, no free trial was totally worth it. MY GOD this is amazing. So simple, no fluff, but ACCURATE and FAST and OFFLINE! Wow! I’m a medical student using this to transcribe lectures to make AI gen concept maps/practice questions and this is perfect! It transcribes the fancy medical jargon perfectly. I’ve only done one lecture but it “plasmapheresis” and “IgG” were spelled correctly. My professor speaks clearly so time will tell if it continues to blow my mind, but thought I would share. For those looking for some fancy bulleted full sentence/punctuation easy to read file - this may not be it (but c’mon- you can figure that out given all the free AI tech out there), but for those wanting accurate text transcription from an audio file- please just stop wasting time like I did- literally downloaded 7 different apps with free trials, a few online versions - all expensive - cheapest with accuracy was 120/yr - or a disappointment). Thank you creators for making this a one time fee, offline, simple, accurate, and just so easy to use. I could cry from gratitude.

“Added after transcription: the rain storm almost completely obliterated the last half of the auditory saves, so corrections were needed. I couldn’t quite make everything out but it is a tribute to the program’s author that any of this even exists.” I was driving in a rainstorm that could not be avoided and had started a verbal dictation before the rainstorm started. The phone was held on a magnetic mount and I pulled over till the worst passed. I continued dictating so as not to lose the flow. The rain noise in the “auditory saves” on listening clearly exceeds the words in volume but somehow the program got enough to allow me to correct the speech to text it transcribed. Not error free but under the circumstances, ABSOLUTELY magic.