Veena for iPhone
Speech to text on iPhone that never phones home
Veena turns speech in all 22 scheduled languages of India into text, directly on your iPhone. Download its model once, then dictate in Telugu, Tamil, or your own language with airplane mode on. Free, with no account needed.
iPhone · free
What you get on iOS
A native SwiftUI app
Veena is built for the iPhone, not ported through a wrapper. Hold the mic button for quick notes or tap once for long dictation; either way recognition runs locally.
Dictate in 22 languages
Pick your language during setup. Telugu uses a dedicated model; the other 21 scheduled languages share one multilingual model trained on all of them, each decoding through its own vocabulary.
Transcribe recordings, not just live speech
Import a voice memo or any audio file from Files, and Veena transcribes it on the phone.
History you control
Transcripts are saved on the device with their audio so you can replay, edit, copy, or delete them. Nothing syncs, nothing leaves.
Set up once. Speak offline.
Install from the App Store, allow microphone access, choose your language, and Veena downloads its speech model over wifi (about 125 MB for Telugu, about 480 MB for all 22 languages). From then on the app works offline, with your recordings processed on your phone.
Check your language first
Every scheduled language of India is supported:
Browse the 22 supported languages