Active Voice! Reviews

by Piodayz

I’ve used ActiveVoice for 2 years now. It came it handy for writing blogs and important stuff. Now I’m mad that ActiveVoice stopped working for like the past two weeks now. But who ever runs ActiveVoice. Do use a favor and please just update it. Honestly I’m tried seeing the “Cloud transactions reported an error” popping up on my screen. Plus you deserve one star for not updating ActiveVoice and for paying attention to what your users are trying to tell you online.

by RRM0O1

I started using the free version, liked it quite a bit went to the paid version and it was working fine for many months and then all of a sudden stopped taking transcriptions longer than one minute. It just give me an error. I contacted the developer twice via their email app and still not have heard back after several weeks. frustrated that is not working correctly and no one will respond to my request for help.

by Bdomingue

Downloaded ActiveVoice in hopes of using it for work. The first time I used it and it worked great. The second time I used it- it would continue “recording” and the when I clicked done it said that it hadn’t finished recording at all. Instead of letting me know beforehand that it wasn’t receiving it at all. It simply crashed each time. Now I use notes app from Apple to dictate what I need for work. I tried to get a refund from Apple and they didn’t allow it. Lame. Don’t buy ActiveVoice- waste of $9.99.

by PeterC52!

Had high hopes for ActiveVoice but was disappointed as the voice to text failed multiple times. Paid the $8.99 to transcribe and then submit weekly reports without having to write it out. Attempt after attempt I was received “null” errors and finally gave up. There’s an app on my phone called voice recorder that said it something similar to what I was looking for if I upgraded (with a free trail period) which I did and that worked perfectly. So I’m out the money for Activate Voice but at least I solved my new. Buyer beware of ActiveVoice!

by Flaqueeto

ActiveVoice takes decent dictation, but not great, probably not as good as Siri although I'd need to use it a bit more to be sure.

The reason I haven't been using it is that it doesn't allow the user to save the texts as a file, not save it to an existing file. I bought ActiveVoice so I could easily take notes as I review properties for sale, then file the notes for future reference. The extra step of having to text or email to myself, and then compile it, nearly defeats the purpose of this utility.

by 12mtn

I just bought ActiveVoice . $9.99 - so not cheap. I record a few short test sentences and all went ok. Fairly accurate. But then I recorded what I really needed to (likely about 5+ minutes of talking), and talked less than 2 minutes, and every time, I get an error message and everything I said was lost and didn't get recorded. Nothing.

What happened? It's impossible to even find out or ask questions. There's no instructions link. There's no troubleshooting link. There's no contact for support link. Nothing.

As a disabled person, I was excited to find ActiveVoice. It would help me immensely. But right now, I feel I got screwed. $10 may not be a lot to some, but to others, it's can be everything and can change their lives immeasurably.

by Charles Woodhall

I’ve been very disappointed with ActiveVoice. I used Dragon for a long time and I loved it in every way. It never failed to understood my speech, get the spelling, punctuation and grammar correct. ActiveVoice has been very disappointing. ActiveVoice offers very little considering the time it takes to correct the errors. I could’ve manually typed the piece. I’ve found it to be undependable and too much effort to edit all the errors.

by LXRD351

ActiveVoice is extremely useful as my job is busy and fast paced. The more you use ActiveVoice the another it becomes as in terms of dictation and voice recognition. However, 1/4 times of its use ActiveVoice freezes then crashes deleting what was already dictated. I’m using a iPhone 7plus. Hope this issue gets resolved as it has the potential to be a 5 Star application.

by Mr. Ritz

I love ActiveVoice and it’s functionality. I like speaking and seeing what I said on screen. Then being able to edit any mistakes or mis-interpreted words, then being able to continue. However, ActiveVoice easily loses connection then freezes up and loses everything you have written. I learned this the hard way losing my daughter’s whole wedding speech that I had written. It was a masterpiece if I do say so. I never had a bigger kick in the gut then when ActiveVoice froze and I lost everything. Fortunately, I had most of it in my heart and I winged it. I was told it was beautiful. But I still feel the one I wrote was better. I was bitterly disappointed. There needs to be a save feature as you write so you don’t lose everything if you are accidentally get disconnected. It could be an awesome product if this could be done.

by Matt 26

I paid $10 for ActiveVoice and I have gotten about five dollars or somewhat less worth of value. When it works, it does a reasonably good job of translating my voice, about 90 to 95% accuracy. But three times in the past week I have dictated A fairly long note and at the end received a message “ Error in cloud transmission“ and the whole message was lost. I see that Nuance company is a contributor and my experience with them has been abysmal. Think PaperPort and Dragon Dictate. Both of these programs had much promise and started out well but the customer service was so poor and the lack of progress in the company Was so invisible that I had given up on both. Am I going to throw away my $10? Probably.

by BGR714

The speech recognition in this application is good. For me, it seems to be some of the best I've used. I particularly like that it will process large blocks of speech, rather than halting in the middle when I pause to gather my thoughts.

But, saving text is precarious. I've accidentally deleted long passages by closing the application or just the document. I must be very diligent about saving blocks of text promptly. It's like the olden days of hitting CMD-S every few sentences when writing in Word so that a crash wouldn't wipe out much work. And, "yes, I walked five miles to school uphill both ways... in the snow. So you kids better stay off my lawn!" Yeah, the aspects of this application for saving text do make me feel like the grumpy old man I've become. And, even though this application is updated frequently, this significant downside has not been addressed.

The core speech recognition function is great.

by Clawdan3

It is nice for me because it gives me a chance to "jot" thoughts, and reminds me later. For instance if I want to find out about"who starred and what movie", if I'm driving especially, I tell ActiveVoice . It's that kind of thing. Just wish you could port stuff to Evernote, or reminders, that would be icing.

by Riseabove1

This is far and away the best voice to text app I have ever used. It is simple, fast, and accurate. There is really nothing more I need from an app like this. It does exactly what it was designed to do, quickly and efficiently. It is one of the most used apps on my iPhone.

by The Valkrie

If u constantly want your train of thought interrupted every 3 seconds or so to restart this thing.... go for it! If u are serious about recording your thoughts to ward off writers block later get a DIFFERENT APP! I have to find the on I had before that I could talk and actually have it convert to a written document. 3rd grade level

by Brenda Kay Forest

It dictated exactly what I say perfectly. I'm also learning Spanish so it's great that I can easily translate my sentences and paragraphs to Spanish and it has done so perfectly so far. I love the simplicity of ActiveVoice and that it allows quick and simple forwarding to texting, email, etc. and a copy feature if I want to paste it somewhere else. I highly recommend ActiveVoice!

by Favor1122

I love ActiveVoice is very convenient for me to talk my dictation into my phone and email it to myself. The type of job I have requires me to do very heavy documentation and to be very detailed in my documentation therefore ActiveVoice is awesome I highly recommend it. The turnaround time is within seconds of me sending the email to myself ever seen the dictation to immediately copy and paste it into our system.

by Vegaswineaux

As my blog activity grows and I generate more and more posts in order to stay up to date, I find that ActiveVoice is absolutely indispensable. My iMac is an older one (2014) so the equivalent app won’t work properly on it anymore. This was a happy find, seeing that it works almost perfectly on my iPhone 8 Plus. I’m very happy with it!

by Monyhony

I have to make notes and record all conversations I have with clients. Just the fact that I have to stop and do this every time slows my day down and makes it virtually impossible to be highly productive, but I do understand the significance of it. I used to just email myself and record my notes, but I found ActiveVoice to to be much quicker and I very rarely have to go back in and change the words. I talk with a deep southern accent so you can only imagine what gets put on paper. Anyway I just love ActiveVoice and it is invaluable to my business. Works great every time!

by Sophiesuelou

Best voice to text app available that I have found it and I have gone through pretty much all of them. This actually picks up everything clearly and dictates it correctly.

ActiveVoice unlike others rarely if it all messes up words or phrases unlike others where I have to constantly go back and correct them which defeats the purpose of voice to text (and it's frustrating to fix half of everything that you’ve dictated).

It's nice to that it works with commands for dictating text that That are for dictating text on Mac but also work for iOS. Some of the commands I'm still figuring out and they might be because of enhanced dictation but overall they work. With iPhone 8 I don't have an option for enhanced dictation but on X there might be an option for enhanced dictation.

Don't waste your money on any of the other dictation apps. They're completely useless and will frustrate you to no end. I have wasted way more money than I would care to admit on those and this has been best app that I have found and I always come back to it.

by Primate1

Tapping the screen with my finger results in numerous mistakes. I would much rather dictate. It is much faster and, with Active Voice, it is much more efficient.

I have often compared Active Voice with the native Apple dictation and found that Active Voice is, by far, more accurate.