Practice the words your phone gets wrong.
Misheard is a dictation practice app for iPhone and iPad. Say a word or phrase, see what speech recognition transcribed, and try coaching suggestions based on the result. No app account needed.
Free for 14 days, then $4.99 USD once. iPhone and iPad, US English. Regional prices may vary.
Quick clarification: this has nothing to do with misheard song lyrics. It is about the words you say every day, and what your phone types instead.
See what recognition heard. Practice your next attempt.
Names, technical terms and everyday phrases can come back differently from what you intended. Misheard shows you the transcript so you can compare attempts.
Try a short practice session with your own words. Recognition results depend on the device, microphone, accent, background noise and surrounding words.
Misheard does not modify iOS dictation or integrate with another dictation system. Results in Messages, an ambient scribe or a headset system must be checked separately.
Say it. See it. Fix it. Say it again.
Illustrative practice example. Your transcript and results may differ.
Coaching suggests a possible adjustment based on the returned transcript. It is not an analysis of your speech sounds, and suggestions can be wrong. Try again and compare the results; improvement is not guaranteed.
Make a list, send a link, and thirty students practice tonight.
Use it for spelling lists, sight words, this week's vocabulary, or the minimal pairs your ESL class keeps mixing up. Build the list once, share the link, and every student who opens it gets the same drill on their own iPhone or iPad.
You do not need an account, and neither do they. You do not even need the app to build a list: make one at misheard.app/l and share the link from there. The teachers' page has the grade lists already printed as codes, and a maker that turns a folder of your own word files into a page of them.
Misheard has no student accounts or teacher dashboard. Scores stay on the student’s device. Speech recognition runs on your device by default. If you turn off “Keep speech on device,” audio may be sent to Apple for recognition. Misheard does not receive your practice audio or transcripts. Follow your school’s requirements before classroom use.
Works for coaches, parents, and anyone who has ever been asked to "say it again."
Who this is for.
Anyone who dictates for a living. Clinic notes between patients. Case files in the car. Site reports, inspection findings, the follow-up email you talk out on the walk back. Repeated recognition errors can mean more time spent correcting text.
People whose name the phone refuses to learn. Teachers with a list and a class. ESL learners, and the people who teach them. And anyone who has said "never mind" to Siri more than once this week.
If your phone gets you right every time, you do not need this. Send it to someone whose phone does not.
Rolling it out to a team? There are pages for healthcare, warehouses, field service, trucking, and public safety.
On-device practice by default.
The app has no Misheard backend, account or analytics. Practice history and saved recordings are stored on your device.
Speech recognition runs on your device by default. If you turn off “Keep speech on device,” audio may be sent to Apple for recognition. Misheard does not receive your practice audio or transcripts.
The full app unlock costs $4.99 USD once after the free trial. The website’s educator form stores the information needed to issue codes or record Android interest; the privacy policy explains this separately.
Free for 14 days. Everything unlocked. No card, no account. Then $4.99. Once.
Get it on the App StoreSpeech recognition runs on your device by default. If you turn off “Keep speech on device,” audio may be sent to Apple for recognition. Misheard does not receive your practice audio or transcripts. Full policy at /privacy.
Still want the details?
- Daily challenge. One shared word or phrase each day from a built-in set of 365 challenges.
- Coaching. Suggests what to try based on the returned transcript; suggestions can be wrong.
- Problem words, ranked. Your hit rate per word, so you know what to practice.
- Your own phrases. Product names, medical terms, family names, whatever you actually say.
- Shared lists. Build one, share a link, practice together.
- Offline. Practice works offline with Keep speech on device enabled, the default.
- iPhone and iPad, US English. More languages are coming as separate apps.
- Family Sharing. One purchase covers everyone in your family group.
Frequently asked
No. Misheard is a separate practice app using Apple’s speech recognition. It does not modify iOS dictation or integrate with another dictation system. Test results in other systems separately.
Speech recognition runs on your device by default. If you turn off “Keep speech on device,” audio may be sent to Apple for recognition. Misheard does not receive your practice audio or transcripts.
No. Misheard is a dictation practice app. It shows what speech recognition transcribed and offers suggestions for another attempt.
The app has no Misheard backend, login, sync or analytics. Practice history is stored on your device. Speech recognition stays on-device by default; disabling Keep speech on device may send audio to Apple. The website separately stores educator form submissions and standard hosting logs.
Build a list in the app or at misheard.app/l, then share the link. Students can read it in a browser or practice in the iPhone or iPad app. No app accounts are needed. Recognition is on-device by default; turning that setting off may send audio to Apple.
No. With Keep speech on device switched on (the default) recognition, scoring and history all stay on your iPhone, and the app works in airplane mode. Switch it off and misheard may fall back to Apple's speech servers. The result screen always says which one was used.
Yes. That is the point of it. Product names, medical terminology, family names, or anything dictation keeps getting wrong for you.
iPhone and iPad, US English. Other languages will ship as separate apps.
Misheard uses a one-time unlock instead of a subscription. The trial includes all features for 14 days, and today’s challenge remains free afterwards.
Yes. The download is free, fourteen days are free with everything unlocked, then one purchase. No recurring charge, no ads. Today's challenge word stays free forever either way. Refunds are handled through Apple's standard App Store refund process.