Most mobiles these days include an application to record the voice, although sometimes they take the work too literally. If you are looking for something more advanced and powerful, Voice Notebook is an app to dictate voice memos simple, easy and to use and it works very well.
Voice Notebook takes advantage of Google’s speech recognition and speech synthesis technology, but adds on top of it useful optimizations for note dictation, such as the ability to use replacements for certain words. I mean, you can do that when saying “point”, a period is written.
Dictate notes to mobile with precision
Android has had voice text input for many years, although the result is a bit unpredictable. Word recognition is correct, but it can be difficult to get it right. punctuation marks such as commas, periods or anything you need to dictate that is something special.
Voice Notebook reuses the mobile’s voice recognition technology -you will need to have updated Google applications for its correct operation- but adding exclusive additional options so that dictating notes is a much easier process. In practice, the application is extremely simple because basically all you need to do is press the record button and start talking.
As you speak, the text is being filled in in real time, so that you can check at all times that everything has been correctly registered. At the bottom of the application you will find a toolbar with which you can add periods, commas, delete the last word or toggle between upper and lower case.
However, the main advantage of Voice Notebook is that generally you will not need to touch anything on the mobile to record your text. Instead, you can use the replacements so that when you say something, something specific is written. For example, when you say “semicolon”, it is replaced by ;
. Best of all, these replacements are fully configurable from their settings.
Besides being able to record a text using your voice, with Voice Notebook you can also do the opposite: read your voice memo with the mobile’s TTS (Text To Speech) engine. Voice Notebook it’s a free appAlthough if you buy the Premium version for 3.19 euros, the advertising is eliminated and you unlock premium features such as dark mode, support for voice input with Bluetooth or the automatic insertion of the date at the beginning of each recording.