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NALscribe
National Acoustic Laboratories
Live captions with adjustable text, saving, sharing and privacy screen-clearing options.
Features
Captions
Transcripts & notes
Availability & access
- Supported: Recognition languages1English · French · Spanish · Arabic · German · Italian · Danish · Japanese · Chinese · Korean · Portuguese · Russian
- Supported: Service eligibilityOpen accessAlso on Mac
- Not supported: Professional enrollment requiredAlso on Mac
Accessibility
- Supported: Caption text size
- Supported: Screen-reader support
- Supported: System text scaling
- Conditional: Landscape display2
- Supported: Caption display controlsText size
- Language model download is required for offline recognition.
- Translation and offline operation require the supported device, language and downloaded models.
- Applies when Offline speech recognition only is enabled on a compatible device with the language model downloaded.
- Saved transcription text stays locally on the device. Saving is manual and is unavailable in automatic-erase modes.
- Requires a compatible device and a downloaded language model.
- The microphone stream is used for recognition and discarded; NAL says no audio recording is stored.
- Saved text can be reopened and edited. Saving requires Auto erase text for privacy to be off.
App Store ratings & reviews
Praise
- Three sampled reviewers value straightforward captions, readable text and an uncomplicated free app.
Complaints
- One older review reports record and clear-text controls not responding on iOS 15.4.1.