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Dictation practice for iPhone

Stop getting misheard.

Short, targeted drills that train your dictation, pronunciation, and speech patterns — so autocorrect stops guessing and your phone starts listening. Not about song lyrics. About the words you actually say.

One-time purchase. No subscription, ever.

100% on-device. No cloud, no account, no data leaving your phone.
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Quick clarification: this has nothing to do with misheard song lyrics. It's about training your ear — and your phone's — for real dictation: emails, texts, notes, and the words you say every day.

Sound familiar?

Dictation goes wrong in small, maddening ways.

A dropped consonant. A rushed word. A regional vowel. Any one of these can turn a normal sentence into something you have to retype anyway. misheard.app drills the exact sounds that trip recognition up.

You said"Can you email the contract to legal?"
It heard"Can you email the contract to eagle?"
You said"Let's touch base after lunch."
It heard"Let's toe base after munch."
You said"I need a new pair of headphones."
It heard"I need a new pear of headphones."
You said"Please send the invoice by Friday."
It heard"Please send the invoice buy Friday."
What's inside

Four ways to train your dictation

Not a transcription tool — a practice tool. Every drill is built to close the gap between what you say and what gets typed.

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A word a day

One shared challenge, every day

365 of the words dictation reliably ruins — homophones, word-boundary traps, negations that vanish, teens that turn into tens. Everyone gets the same word on the same day, and the whole year ships inside the app, so it works with no signal at all.

  • Same word for everyone, no account needed
  • Tap once and it counts you in
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Coaching

Not just what it heard — what to change

Say "vablet" and get "tablet", and misheard.app tells you the opening buzz did not survive, and what to do with your mouth about it. Keep missing and the advice moves on rather than repeating itself. And when a word is a true homophone, it says so plainly: nothing in your pronunciation can separate "their" from "there", and only the sentence around it will.

  • Names the sound that is landing wrong
  • Play back your own take beside the transcript
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Your problem words, ranked

Know which words are actually costing you

Every take is kept, so each word carries a real hit rate rather than a feeling. Practice runs worst-first, and Free Speak lets you talk naturally for a minute and get your words per minute, your um and you know count, and a transcript with your own words picked out.

  • Recognition rate per word, worst first
  • Session history, stored only on your device
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Your own phrases

Practice the words you actually say

Add the product names, medical terms, work jargon and surnames dictation keeps mangling. Tap any one of them to drill it on its own, or run the whole list worst-first.

  • Paste a whole list at once, duplicates skipped
  • Ten words free, unlimited with a one-time unlock
No account. No server.

Recognition runs on your phone.

Keep speech on device is on by default, and while it is, nothing you say leaves your iPhone. Your words, scores and history are stored only there — we have no server to send them to and no way to see them. Turn that setting off and Misheard may use Apple's speech servers instead, exactly as keyboard dictation does; the app tells you which is happening on every result.

Works fully offline

No connection needed with on-device recognition — practice on a plane, in a basement, anywhere.

No account, no login

Open the app and start. There's no sign-up flow standing between you and practice.

Recordings are off by default

Practice takes are only saved if you ask, stay on the device, and can be deleted in one tap.

Simple pricing

Buy it once. Own it for good.

No trial that turns into a subscription. No paywall halfway through. One price, everything included.

One-time purchase
$4.99 once, not per month

Every drill, every feature, every future update in that major version — for a single upfront price.

  • All practice drills and difficulty levels
  • Pronunciation feedback & speech pattern history
  • Unlimited custom phrase lists
  • No ads, no account, no data collection
Notify me at launch

misheard.app is in development for iPhone. Leave your email and we'll let you know the moment it's live.

Questions

Frequently asked

No — a very reasonable guess given the name, but no. misheard.app has nothing to do with song lyrics. It's a dictation practice app: it trains your speech patterns and pronunciation so voice-to-text software mishears you less often.

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 same as iOS dictation; the result screen always says which one was used.

Yes — that is the point of it. Ten words are free and a one-time unlock removes the limit — product names, medical terminology, family names, or anything dictation keeps getting wrong for you.

misheard.app is built for iPhone, and speaks US English at launch. Device and language support will be listed on the App Store page at launch.

Yes. One purchase, no subscription, no recurring charge, no ads. Refunds are handled through Apple's standard App Store refund process.